Abstracts from the College of Podiatry Annual Conference 2018

Abstract

{$[$}...{$]$}a prospective registry of patients was still lacking. [...]a prospective registry of PAD risk factors, events and peripheral perfusion of patients with IC referred from primary care to specialist vascular clinics was undertaken. Despite the Consensus Report stating that antiplatelet therapy should be used routinely in PAD, with aspirin as the first line treatmF25ent, patients are still poorly managed prior to referral to the vascular specialist indicating an underestimation of the serious nature of the disease. [...]more referrals by primary health GPs to podiatrists for vascular assessment are required, so that once PAD is diagnosed immediate referral for risk factor management is undertaken. O03 Virtually optimised foot orthoses for offloading the diabetic foot: A randomized crossover study James Woodburn School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland, UK Background: Integration of objective biomechanical measures of foot function into the design process for foot orthoses has been shown to provide enhanced plantar tissue protection for individuals at-risk of plantar ulceration [1]. In a patient population at-risk of foot ulceration, we aimed to compare the pressure offloading performance of foot orthoses that were optimized via numerical simulation techniques against shape-based devices.