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.