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.
Medicare Footwear Benefit for Patients with Diabetes
June 24 2014
Your patients may be able to benefit from a Medicare Part B health benefit known as the “Therapeutic…
Obesity: Consequences for Foot Health
May 27 2014
The link between obesity/overweight and poor health has been documented extensively. According to…
Many healthcare professionals may not realize how important it is for their patients to take care…
Skin/Soft Tissue Management of the Foot
May 28 2014
IPFH defines skin / soft tissue management of the foot as the practice of protecting the skin/soft…
The Fine Art of Shoemaking
September 09 2014
I wanted to learn more about the fine art of shoemaking and planned to visit our local cobbler. I…