The Importance of Exercises in Rehabilitation

by Jennifer Hill

In terms of bone and joint foot disorders there are several distinct choices that podiatrists have to take care of foot disorders. Many of these are what are called passive therapies. Many are things such as heat, cold, infared, etc that the individual that has the injury does not actually do something and they're treated with interventions which are passive. On the other hand, there are what is known as the active treatments. They are treatments which are done by the individual that has the foot injury. This could comprise of exercises for example conditioning and stretching. There does exist some arguements for and against different groups as to if the active or passive interventions are better.

This whole topic was the subject of a recent PodChatLive where the hosts had a discussion with Talysha Reeve, a podiatrist from Australia with extensive knowledge of the active treatments and exercise rehab of foot conditions. PodChatLive is a frequent live stream where the 2 hosts choose a topic for each episode and also have on some expert or number of specialists on that subject and devote an hour or so going over the topic together. The conversation is broadcast live on Facebook and is also afterwards accessible as a video on YouTube and also as an audio podcast with the common podcast sites. For the show with Talysha Reeve they discussed what are the more effective active interventions were as well as what the considerations are which Podiatrists needs to have when supplying therapy clinically. The incredible importance of a great clinical reasoning technique to help make those judgements are was also considered. They also talked about the practical procedure for rehab in the real world, especially looking at the biopsychosocial factors, patient adherence and actions modifications. A key issue that was discussed involved just how rehabilitation lends itself to remote/online consultations that there's an ever-increasing trend towards. This episode of PodChatLive is highly suggested to podiatrists for more information about the debate about this topic.

Understanding the foot orthotic industry

by Jennifer Hill

PodChatLive is a monthly livestream for the regular expert development of Podiatry practitioners and other people that will be interested. It is hosted by Ian Griffiths from England in the UK and Craig Payne from Melbourne in Australia. They stream online each show live to Facebook and then is eventually modified and published to YouTube so that it does get to a broad audience. Every live show has a different guest or number of people to go over a particular topic of interest each time. Queries and comments usually are responded to live by the hosts and guests whilst in the live episode on Facebook. There is not very much follow-up conversation with the YouTube channel. For those who like audio only, there's a PodCast version of every single show on iTunes as well as Spotify and the other common podcast platforms for that intent. They've got attained a big following which continues getting bigger. PodChatLive can be considered one of several ways in which podiatrists can usually get free professional education points.

One of the episodes that was popular was a conversation with a couple of foot orthotic lab owners concerning the market and just how they connect with the podiatry professions. Foot orthotics facilities are in the business of manufacturing custom made foot orthotics which Podiatrists use for the clients. The lab owners in that stream were Artur Maliszewski (from the Footwork Podiatric Laboratory in Melbourne, Australia) and Martin McGeough (from Firefly Orthoses in Ireland). Craig and ian talked about what life is like at the orthoses facilities. They talked briefly about how they personally made the journey from graduating Podiatry practitioners to laboratory owners as well as other themes like their labs involvement in research. There was additionally a very helpful conversation on the preferences of their clients with regards to negative impression casting methods including the plaster of paris vs optical mapping. Also of concern was the number of people even now wish to use the infamous “lab discretion” tick on orthotic prescriptions.

What is the role of podiatry in sports medicine?

by Jennifer Hill

Sports plays a huge role in the community. It is both for enjoyment reasons and also increasing fitness and health. For children it shows working together and contains many life lessons concerning being successful and not winning. Unfortunately, sports participation carries a number of negative aspects. Cheating and substance abuse to enhance results sometimes happen. Sports injuries might also take place. Even with regard to a basic sport like running, about 50% of runners may get an injury each year. The medical discipline of sports medicine has developed to handle sport injuries to help keep athletes in sports activity rather than giving up due to an injury. When more and more people can be kept in sports activity the greater those individuals and society in general may well reap the rewards that sporting activities involvement is able to bring.

Every medical speciality has a sports medicine subspecialty as a result of skills that are needed to deal with athletes. Podiatry has got the speciality termed podiatric sports medicine. In this speciality podiatrists are involved in managing and also preventing sports injuries in a variety of sports. They will use numerous treatment approaches to take care of a wide range of injuries. Considered one of the original podiatrists who were prominent in sports medicine and gave prominence to the speciality was Dr Steven Subotnick, DPM. He was referred to as the ‘running foot doctor’ as he published a book by this name. He was recently interviewed on the Facebook live, PodChatLive regarding his experiences in the early days of podiatric sports medicine. PodChatLive is a regular livestream in which the hosts talk to and chat with a unique guest in every episode. The video of each edition is on YouTube and the audio version is additionally on the traditional podcast websites. Through the live with Steven Subotnick they talked about his views on podiatric sports medicine and also mentioned the backstory to where we are currently and how we got here. Dr Steven Subotnick also provided quite a few invaluable clinical gems based upon all his experience.