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How good are you at locating areas of high pressure?

Discussion in 'Diabetic Foot & Wound Management' started by NewsBot, Dec 5, 2006.

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    Testing the proficiency in distinguishing locations with elevated plantar pressure within professional groups of foot therapists.
    BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2006 Dec 1;7(1):93
    Guldemond NA, Leffers P, Nieman FH, Sanders AP, Schaper NC, Walenkamp GH
     
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  3. G Hicks

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    One way of improving the recognition of high plantar pressure areas is by using PressureStat ( formerly known as PodoTrack) . This is a simple device which uses pressure sensitive inks to record pressures onto a sheet of paper after a patient has stood upon , or walked over the PressureStat. Anita Raspovic( Diabetic Foot 2005) also found clinicians to be inaccurate over their prediction of high plantar pressure areas.I have to declare an interest here in that I distribute PressureStat , however I do believe it to be a useful tool for recognition of high plantar pressure areas. It can be used by clinicians for pressure measurement and for education of the patient. Some practitioners are handing Pressurestats for patients' own use at home. There are a number of papers which have found Pressurestat to be a useful addition to the clinical armoury .
     
  4. Don Visbeen

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    Dear collegae Hicks,
    My name is Don Visbeen Ph.D. and I am the inventor of the Podotrack. In your paper you state that Pressure Stat ( formerly known as Podo track ). This statement is not correct. The Podotrack came in the market in 1994 in The Netherlands, and is still in the market. Pressure Stat is a exact copy of the Podotrack. All scientific papers are studies done with Podotrack and not with Pressure Stat.
    Kind regards Don Visbeen
     
  5. Not enough detail on the subject being assessed- callus overlying MTPJ's? Or of the professionals experience/ knowledge base. Fun study though.
     
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