Health Care Professionals
Health Care Professionals
Welcome to the Professionals section of our site. In this section, IPFH provides detailed articles on the rationale for Preventive Foot Health: What it Means for Patients; key concepts related to preventive foot health, including skin/soft tissue management; and an integrated approach to selecting shoes and padded socks that fit and other articles related to the foot and its vital role in mobility and function.
This website also features a Resources section that contains abstracts and full-text versions of the peer-reviewed studies that provided impetus for the founding of IPFH, results of the 2009 and 2012 IPFH/NPD foot health surveys, IPFH white papers, a glossary of foot-related terms and other foot-related research.
Obesity: Consequences for Foot Health
April 08 2013
The link between obesity/overweight and poor health has been documented extensively. According to…
Skin/Soft Tissue Management of the Foot
April 30 2012
IPFH defines skin / soft tissue management of the foot as the practice of protecting the skin/soft…
Preventive Foot Health: What it Means for Patients
March 29 2012
Many healthcare professionals may not realize how important it is for their patients to take care…