PodChatLive is a weekly live chat for the ongoing learning of Podiatry practitioners as well as other health care professionals considering the foot and lower limb. It is sent out live on Facebook then a recorded version is later published to YouTube. This chat is hosted by Craig Payne from Melbournein Australia as well as Ian Griffiths from England, United Kingdom. All live episodes carries a different guest or group of guests to go over a unique but relevant issue each time. Inquiries can be answered during the livestream by the hosts and guests throughout the live episode on Facebook. You will find the audio version as a PodCast version of each show located on iTunes as well as Spotify and additional typical podcast places. They've created a substantial following that continues increasing. PodChatLive may very well be one of many ways through which podiatry practitioners can usually get free specialist learning points, hours or credits that could be generally required to maintain their clinical practice license.
In one of the popular episodes they talked with the physiotherapist, Seth O’Neil regarding Achilles tendon disorders. It was popular because Achilles tendinopathy can be so frequent however is often improperly managed and there are a number of facets of it treatment that happen to be debatable and inadequately comprehended. The objective of that episode was to target these problems. In this live they brought up whether or not this is an inflammatory issue or a degenerative reaction or even if it will be both. They outlined how Seth examines the posterior ankle soreness clinically, which is not always due to Achilles tendinopathy. Seth also gave his ideas on imaging relevance and timing plus why isometrics probably are not the silver bullet for pain relief which so many promote it to be. He furthermore speculated about how advice and education need to in all probability out rank injection and shockwave therapy for being more appropriate.