The Importance of Blood Flow to the Feet

Among the more valuable roles that a podiatrist takes on can be to evaluate the vascular or blood supply condition to the foot and lower limb to figure out if patients are vulnerable or not for poor healing as a consequence of blood flow. If someone was at high risk for complications because of that, then steps have to be undertaken to lessen that threat and safeguard the foot from problems, particularly when they have got diabetes mellitus. The monthly livestream for Podiatry practitioners, PodChatLive dedicated a whole stream to this subject. PodChatLive is a free continuing learning live which goes live on Facebook. The intended audience is podiatrists working in clinical practice, though the actual market extend to plenty of other health professionals in addition. In the live there is a lot of dialogue and remarks commented on Facebook. Later the recorded video version is published to YouTube and the podcast version is published to the typical platforms like Spotify as well as iTunes.

In the stream on vascular complications and evaluation of the feet the hosts talked with Peta Tehan, a podiatrist, and an academic at the University of Newcastle, Australia and also with Martin Fox who's also a podiatrist and works in a CCG-commissioned, community-based NHS service in Manchester where he provides early recognition, diagnosis and ideal clinical management of people with assumed peripheral vascular disease. In the episode there was several real and beneficial vascular gems from Martin and Peta. They pointed out exactly what a vascular assessment should look like in clinical practice, the value of doppler use for a vascular assessment (and common mistakes made), all of us listened to some doppler waveforms live (and appreciate how depending on our ears alone most likely are not perfect), and identified the value of good history taking and testing in individuals with known risk factors, notably given that 50% of people with peripheral arterial probalems have no symptoms.