Roozbeh Naemi
Staffordshire University, UK
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Diabetes Metab
Diabetic foot is one of the most costly complications of Diabetes. By 2025 more than 0.5 Billion people worldwide will live with Diabetes and Diabetic foot complications with prevalence of 15%, lead to. population of 75 Million people needing special foot care. In the UK, complications due to diabetic foot, costs the economy around one Billion Sterling. year and lead to significant morbidity and mortality with huge socioeconomic burden. It has been established that the majority of injuries to the foot is the result of mechanical trauma that the patient does not recognize because of neuropathy. Despite these and the role that biomechanics plays in diagnosis of vulnerability to foot ulceration, biomechanical assessment of diabetic foot has not been implemented in clinical settings due to time-consuming procedure of data collection/analyses inherent in conventional biomechanical assessment. Through DiabSmart project, the clinical biomechanics team at Staffordshire University have developed. biomechanical testing protocol for diabetic patients that can be utilised in. clinical environment. These biomechanical measurements can be performed easily and quickly in. clinical setting and are shown to be useful in identifying the risk of mechanical trauma to the foot in diabeticneuropathic patients. In addition to elaborating this work, in this lecture Dr Roozbeh Naemi will further describe the use of biomechanical modelling techniques and imaging modalities in the assessment of mechanical properties of the plantar soft tissue of diabetic foot. The presentation will conclude by presenting the system developed for patient-specific approach to ultra-customised insoles prescription.
Email: R.Naemi@staffs.ac.uk
