Ep 14: The Vein Heart: The Calf Pump? Walking is man’s best medicine
"Walking is man’s best medicine".
Today's panellists have a wide variety of specialities and feature a vascular surgeon (Sergio Gianesini), a podiatrist (Sean Pincus), a physiotherapist (Nicole Redman) and an orthopaedic specialist who together discuss the importance of the calf pump, otherwise known as the peripheral heart muscle.
In this episode they discuss:
- How important is the calf pump?
- How to improve calf function: the podiatrist and the venous physician
- Patient rehabilitation: the importance of calf pump and peri-operative exercise, pre-op physio and early mobilisation
- The role of the foot
- The non-functional calf-pump: obesity, severe oedema and non-healing wounds
- Misinformation on products
- Optimising treatment: referrals and the importance of lymphedema and other specialists
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Will a phoenix rise from the ashes and what will future congress sessions look like in the future?
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Will a phoenix rise from the ashes and what will future congress sessions look like in the future?
Non-societal representatives, Manjit Gohel (Charing Cross), Jose Almeida (IVC), Antonio Gasparis (Venous Symposium), Nicos Labroupoulos (EVM) and Prof Frank Veith (VEITH), join the discussion today to examine the issues impacting venous meetings in 2020.
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Submit your questions/feedback to Steve via: podcast@radcliffe-group.com. Hosted by @DrSteveElias. Produced by @RadcliffeVASCU.
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Submit your questions/feedback to Steve via: podcast@radcliffe-group.com. Hosted by @DrSteveElias. Produced by @RadcliffeVASCU.
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