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.