The specialty center HLA San Carlos en Jávea continues to invest in high technology to improve patient health care. This time in the Podology Area thanks to a new technological platform called 'Podoprint' with which, especially children, athletes and people of advanced age, can perform a foot analysis for the design and development of foot supports and correct or compensate various pathologies
Eva Pérez, specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of the different alterations and diseases that affect the foot, explains that "Podoprint is a revolutionary electronic pressure platform that allows us to perform an advanced analysis, as well as easy, fast and accurate footprint of the patient thanks to its latest generation sensors. It is an innovation that allows the podiatrist to visualize and interpret the footprint through a digitalized image".
The study of the footprint thus acquires a new perspective, surpassing the possibilities offered by the old photopodia. "With this technology, we can make a study of the footprint in three modalities: static, dynamic and postural"Says the podiatrist about this equipment that"It has a platform with a large number of sensors to capture the characteristics of the footprint of both children and adults".
The Podoprint allows to determine with great accuracy the type of foot, the points of maximum pressure, the deviation in supination or pronation, or the distribution of the center of gravity of each foot, as well as the body in general. Through this information, "we can corroborate other pathologies such as spinal deviation, hip imbalance, limb dysmetria or a local condition that forces more feet to stand on", Says the HLA professional San Carlos Office in Jávea.
Custom templates
Not all of us walk the same, sometimes even the feet of the same person behave differently among themselves. Therefore, the professional study can detect the need to apply different treatments and contrary to each foot, for which templates are designed adjusted to the particularities of each patient. As opposed, "the use of standard templates, which do not adapt to our morphology and needs, can worsen the original problem and cause new injuries"Says the podiatrist.
Dr. Eva Pérez, warns further that "our body offers warning signs when we should seek the help of a professional podiatrist, such as discomfort of feet, knees, hips or back when walking or running, recurrent injuries when playing sports, presenting a foot with much or little bridge, with bunions or hardness, walking with knees close together or very far apart, wearing uneven footwear or if we are diabetic or have cardiovascular risk, which predisposes us to the appearance of ulcers".
And is that these symptoms, both in children and adults, may be indicating the need to use plantar supports to correct or compensate for numerous pathologies such as flat feet, cavities, valgus or varus; overloads in certain areas such as talalgia (heel pain),
metatarsalgia, plantar fasciitis or calcaneal spur; compensate for dismetrias (difference in leg length) or back pathologies such as scoliosis.
"The diagnosis of the tread is a complex work that requires specific and deep knowledge for the good of the health of our feet, base of the well-being of the rest of our body", Concludes HLA professional San Carlos.
