One of the most necessary functions that your podiatrist takes on is to assess the vascular or blood flow status to the feet and lower limb to ascertain if patients are at risk or not for poor healing due to the blood circulation. If someone was at high risk for issues for that reason, then steps really need to be undertaken to lower that threat and protect the feet from injury, especially if they've diabetes. The monthly talk show for Podiatrists, PodChatLive devoted a whole show to that subject. PodChatLive is a free continuing education stream that goes live on Facebook. The supposed market is podiatrists working in clinical practice, but the real audience include lots of other health care professionals in addition. Through the live there is a lot of discussion and remarks on Facebook. Eventually the recorded video version is put into YouTube and the podcast version is added onto the standard places like Spotify as well as iTunes.
In the show on vascular problems and examination 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 is also a podiatrist and also works in a CCG-commissioned, community-based National Health Service service in Manchester, UK where he provides early recognition, analysis and best clinical management of individuals with suspected peripheral vascular disease. Through the episode there were many real and beneficial vascular gems from Martin and Peta. They pointed out exactly what a vascular examination should look like in clinical practice, the importance of doppler use for a vascular examination (and prevalent errors made), we listened to some doppler waveforms live (and recognize how depending upon our ears by itself might not be ideal), and identified the importance of great history taking and testing in people with known risk factors, particularly given that 50% of those with peripheral vascular disease have no symptoms.