Podiatry practitioners can play an important position within the coverage at a number of sporting events, primarily at fitness events including the marathon where the foot is put through a great deal of load. Blisters and other traumas are common in these kinds of activities. A newly released episode of the podiatry live, PodChatLive reviewed the part of podiatry at various kinds of sporting events. The guest that the hosts spoke with in that live was Mandy Abbott who's a lecturer in podiatry at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, the United Kingdom. She is also the Clinical Director for Special Olympics UK and was Lead Podiatrist at the Commonwealth Games in 2014, the European Games in 2015 together with the World Indoor Athletics in 2018. These positions gave Mandy a really unique understanding of the part which podiatry will play in providing services at most of these sport activities. The show described about how precisely better to prepare yourself for being a part of a multidisciplinary group with these large activities or events. You will need to recognize acute injury’s management and be very skilled at taping solutions. She gave insights into the actual sort of things that Podiatry tends to manage at such sports, and also the personal/professional importance in doing this kind of events.

Mandy Abbott’s principal areas of work are in sports injuries and lower limb dysfunction. She works together a lot of sports experts which includes a number of soccer clubs. In the role being a Clinical Director for Special Olympics, she continues to be included in national and world games and has managed to include the students in foot assessment of sports athletes having intellectual disabilities. Mandy's research interests are typically the consequences of foot supports on human movement. She has been given her Fellowship of the College of Podiatrists in Podiatric Medicine with the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists.