Diabetes mellitus is starting to become a problem for society and complications of the feet comprise a considerable cost of this problem. A full episode of the podiatry live, PodChatLive had been not long ago devoted to dealing with this area. PodChatLive is a monthly live talk which goes out on Facebook after which will get uploaded to YouTube and various podcast websites. In the edition about the diabetic foot the hosts, Craig Payne and Ian Griffiths spoke with David Armstrong, DPM, PhD who is the most well-known podiatrist in relation to diabetic concerns. Throughout the episode they pointed out just how the worlds diabetes human population is third only to India and china in total numbers. They also talked about that during the duration of this live of PodChatLive alone as many as 198 foot and leg amputations may have happened around the world. Furthermore, during that time 565 people would have died through problems associated with diabetes mellitus. These kinds of statistics are amazing. They discussed what we as Podiatrists can attempt to do about it and the way we have to become more active to assist this problem. They talked about how we talk to and educate our patients and what his method of neuropathic assessment is, and ways in which Diabetic foot lesions aren't unlike exercising load injuries.
David Armstrong DPM, PhD is currently a Professor of Surgery at the University of Southern California. David has a Masters of Science in Tissue Repair and Wound Healing from the University of Wales College of Medicine and a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester College of Medicine, in the United Kingdom. David is the organizer and co-Director with the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA). He has produced in excess of 500 peer-reviewed research papers in a large number of scholarly medical related journals in addition to more than 80 book chapters. David is furthermore co-Editor for the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) book, Clinical Care of the Diabetic Foot, now in its 3rd edition. David is expertly qualified to speak about diabetic foot issues.