PodChatLive is a once monthly livestream made for educating Podiatry practitioners among others who might be interested in a wide range of associated topics. It is broadcast live at Facebook and next will be later on submitted over to YouTube. Every live show includes a different expert or number of people to speak about an original theme in each episode. Inquiries are answered live by the hosts and the guests within the live chat on Facebook. Also there is a audio edition of every show on iTunes as well as Spotify and the other common podcast sources. They have created a big following which is growing. The show can be regarded as one of many ways in which podiatrists are able to get free professional development points.
One of the most popular new episodes was dealing with the role of podiatry inside soccer or football. In this show they spoke of the challenges of treating footballers, and also the numerous ‘hacks’ that are often necessary for making foot orthotics for football footwear. There has been also some discussion regarding the worth of pre-season screening with the lower limb. There was also a significant chat of the research of precisely how boots work together with different surface types and what part which can play in efficiency and injures. The stream assembled really an expert panel which includes Dr Lindsay Hill who is a Sports Podiatrist who has worked on a consultancy basis for numerous top league soccer teams as well as being employed by the Football Association as podiatrist to the English women’s football teams. There was in addition David Brown, who graduated as a Podiatrist in 2015 following a seventeen year career as a professional footballer and also Athol Thomson, a Sports Podiatrist working at Aspetar in Qatar who is at this time studying for his PhD and studying football boot-playing surface interaction. The final guest was Trevor Prior, a Consultant Podiatric Surgeon who has extensive expertise within elite soccer, having taken care of several premier league clubs.