Angel Loves Podiatry

The **pentose phosphate pathway (PPP)** is a glucose metabolic pathway that generates **NADPH** and **ribose-5-phosphate**. In the foot and ankle, NADPH is essential for protecting tissues from oxidative stress, supporting wound healing, collagen synthesis, and immune cell function. Clinically, impaired PPP activity, particularly in diabetes, can contribute to delayed healing of foot ulcers, increased infection risk, and tissue damage. Adequate PPP function helps maintain vascular health and cellular repair mechanisms, which are critical for recovery from foot and ankle injuries and surgical procedures.

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Angel Loves Podiatry

As autumn arrives, I welcome its gentle wisdom with a no-bake peach cheesecake. Each sweet bite feels like a reminder that life unfolds in perfect seasons. May gratitude rise like golden leaves, filling my heart with peace, abundance, and faith in the beauty of baking.

#cheesecake
#peaches
#angellovesbaking

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Angel Loves Podiatry

How can a Podiatrist provide clinical services to Speech and Hearing Impaired Patients?

A podiatrist can care for hearing impaired and nonverbal patients through written communication, sign language interpreters, visual aids, gestures, and accessible technology, ensuring clear understanding and compassionate, patient-centered foot care.

👣💙 #InclusiveHealthcare #Podiatry #accessibleHealthcare, #footandanklesurgery

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Angel Loves Podiatry

I love cooking Italian food and baking because they feel like poetry brought to life. Each ingredient is a note, each recipe a melody, woven together into something beautiful. Food is the thread that stitches hearts together, turning ordinary moments into treasured memories. In every loaf of bread, every handmade pasta, and every sweet dessert, I pour a piece of my soul, creating warmth, comfort, and love that can be shared around the table.

#italianfood, #joyofbaking, #tuscany

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Angel Loves Podiatry

**Attention DoorDash, Uber, UPS, and USPS drivers: your feet are working harder than your GPS. Don't treat them like spare tires! Wear supportive shoes, stretch your calves, and avoid jumping out of vehicles like you're in an action movie. Compression socks can help keep swelling from turning your ankles into dinner rolls. If your first steps in the morning make you walk like a rusty robot, it may be time to see a doctor. Happy feet = more deliveries, fewer complaints from the tiny coworkers at the end of your legs!** 😄👟📦

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Morton’s neuroma is a painful condition caused by thickening of tissue around a nerve in the ball of the foot, usually between the third and fourth toes. Symptoms include burning pain, tingling, numbness, and the feeling of standing on a pebble. Common causes include tight shoes, high heels, repetitive foot stress, and certain foot shapes. Treatment may involve wider footwear, shoe inserts (orthotics), activity modification, anti-inflammatory medications, corticosteroid injections, and, in severe cases, surgery to remove the affected nerve. Early treatment often helps prevent worsening symptoms.

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Angel Loves Podiatry

🎓👣 **Happy Teachers' Day to Our Amazing Podiatry Professors!**

While most people look up to their mentors, you taught us to look down... at feet!

Thank you for helping us survive plantar fascia, gait analysis, biomechanics, and countless toe-tally challenging exams. We promise to continue your legacy one foot at a time.

**You are simply toe-rific!** 🦶😂

*"Without you, we'd all be completely defeeted!"* 👣🏆

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Types of Wounds in Podiatry

Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Wounds associated with diabetes, often caused by neuropathy and poor circulation. Commonly occur on pressure-bearing areas of the foot.

Neuropathic Ulcers: Develop due to loss of protective sensation, frequently seen in diabetic patients.

Venous Ulcers: Result from venous insufficiency and are typically found around the ankle and lower leg.

Arterial (Ischemic) Ulcers: Caused by inadequate blood supply to the foot, often affecting the toes and heel.

Pressure Ulcers: Occur from prolonged pressure over bony prominences, especially in patients with limited mobility.

Traumatic Wounds: Include cuts, abrasions, punctures, burns, and crush injuries affecting the foot and ankle.

Surgical Wounds: Incisions or wounds resulting from podiatric procedures that require monitoring for proper healing.

Acute Wounds: Recent wounds that progress through normal healing within an expected timeframe.

Chronic Wounds: Wounds that fail to heal normally and persist for an extended period, such as diabetic or vascular ulcers.

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Angel Loves Podiatry

Radiation therapy can affect foot health, especially when the lower extremity is treated. Podiatric concerns include skin irritation, swelling (lymphedema), delayed wound healing, and peripheral neuropathy causing numbness, tingling, or burning sensations. Long-term effects may include tissue stiffness and increased risk of injury. Regular foot evaluations, protective footwear, skin monitoring, and early management of symptoms are essential to maintain mobility and prevent complications during and after cancer treatment.

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Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome = 1 in 4 million. A single LMNA mutation makes progerin, causing kids to age rapidly.

For feet, it's unmistakable:

Tiny feet with NO fat pad, severe plano-valgus, stiff ankles, fragile osteoporotic bone, and sclerotic skin.

Hips are the real driver — coxa valga, dysplasia, AVN — so gait becomes a waddling, short-step, flat-footed shuffle with poor ankle rocker.

In podiatry: accommodative orthoses, soft extra-depth shoes, gentle ROM, skin offloading, and always co-manage with cardio/ortho.

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