Dr Foot Podiatry, Foot Care & Health Care Podcast

What defines your success in your life? Is it important to evaluate your life goals?

This podcast explores the “h art attack gender gap” which is thought to be leading to the needless deaths of two women per DAY as they do not receive equal treatment to men in the U.K.

What or where or who is your cookie jar?

If you have diabetes, nerve damage, circulation problems, and infections can lead to serious foot problems. However, you can take precautions to maintain healthy feet.

Managing your diabetes and maintaining a healthy lifestyle helps keep your feet healthy. This should include:

regular medical exams, including foot checks at every visit and checking your ABCs (A1c, blood pressure, and cholesterol)

monitoring your blood sugar daily

regular exercise

eating a balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables.You can help prevent serious foot problems by following a good foot care regimen.

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Measuring quality of life is an important aspect of delivering holistic dermatological care to feet. The lesions on the tops of toes are trivial to most health professionals and my fellow podiatrists, some individuals adapt to the change in the appearance of their toes, however, others react negatively and have decreased psychosocial performance (functioning of emotional, social, mental well-being). http://www.toelift.com

The sinus tarsi is a tube or tunnel between the talus and the calcaneus bones. Sinus tarsi syndrome is pain or injury to this area. Traumatic injury to the ankle/foot (such as an ankle sprain) or overuse (such as repetitive standing or walking) are the main causes of this syndrome. It may also occur if the person has a pes planus or an over-pronated foot, which can cause compression in the sinus tarsi. Some characteristics are pain at the anterior lateral side of the ankle (anterior to the lateral mallelous) and a feeling of instability or difficulty walking on unstable surfaces.

Everyone can get skin cancer regardless of your ethnicity and skin tone. How many people use sun screen on the tops of feet and ankles? Most skin cancers are associated with ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun or tanning beds, and many people of color are less susceptible to UV damage thanks to the greater amounts of melanin (the protective pigment that gives skin and eyes their color) darker skin produces. But people of color can still develop skin cancer from UV damage.

Additionally, certain skin cancers are caused by factors other than UV — such as genetics or other environmental influences — and may occur on parts of the body rarely exposed to the sun. For example, darker-skinned people are more susceptible to acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM), an especially virulent form of melanoma (the deadliest type of skin cancer) that typically appears on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.

Different ethnicities are at higher risk for particular skin malignancies: Latinos, Chinese, and Japanese Asians tend to develop basal cell carcinoma (BCC), the most common skin cancer. But the second most common, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), is more frequent among African Americans and South Asians.

This podcast is about the story of Dr Foot the company! From it’s humble beginnings in 1997, to its huge rise and the decline with changes in the internet landscape. The passion I have for podiatry, innovation and helping others has never left me but the last 22 years of being the CEO of this company has been a rewarding and interesting time in my life!

Just the mere mention of cosmetic and aesthetic podiatry is often looked down upon by podiatrists, however if a patient is so conscious of their feet that they hide their feet 24/7 all year around, always wear socks even when in doors regardless of how hot it is, avoid showing their feet to anybody including their partners and I have known patients who have avoided going on holiday to a warm location because they are so conscious of their feet!! Then podiatrists need to be able to offer a solution!

We need to take the patients “feelings” into consideration, just because the patient is not in physical “pain” doesn’t mean they are not in emotional turmoil over the appearance of their feet.

This video addresses my feelings on this topic and what podiatrists and podiatric surgeons can do to help patients.

We offer PRP, see our Facebook page drfootpodiatry for videos. Platelet activation plays a key role in the body's natural healing process. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy, uses injections of a concentration of a patient’s own platelets to accelerate the healing of injured tendons, ligaments, muscles and joints. In this way, PRP injections use each individual patient's own healing system to improve musculoskeletal problems.