PodChatLive is a popular livestream aimed at educating Podiatrists and others who might be interested in a great deal of relevant themes. It goes live at Facebook and then is later on published over to YouTube. Every live episode features a different person or number of experts to speak about a unique concept every time. Queries have been answered live by the hosts as well as the guests while in the live stream on Facebook. Additionally there is a audio recording of each show on iTunes along with Spotify and the other standard podcast sites. They have developed a large following which is developing. The show can be regarded as among the list of ways in which podiatry practitioners are able to get free professional development credits.
One of the more popular newly released shows was talking about the function of podiatry inside soccer or football. In this episode they spoke of the challenges of managing football players, along with the various ‘hacks’ that happen to be frequently required for using foot orthotics for soccer footwear. There was also some discussion with regards to the worth of pre-season testing with the lower limb. There was also an important chat about the research of the way footwear interact with different types of surface types and just what part which could play in performance and injury risk. The chat set up really an expert group which includes Dr Lindsay Hill who's a Sports Podiatrist who has worked on a consultant basis for quite a few top group soccer teams as well as being used by the Football Association as podiatrist for the English women’s football teams. There was also David Brown, who qualified as a Podiatrist in 2015 after a seventeen year job as a professional footballer in addition to Athol Thomson, a Sports Podiatrist centered at Aspetar in Qatar who's at the moment studying for his PhD and researching football boot-playing surface traction. The last expert was Trevor Prior, a Consultant Podiatric Surgeon that has vast expertise within professional soccer, having looked after quite a few top league clubs.