Watch Dr. Katia Langton's presentation at the 3rd Summit of the Americas Diabetic Foot where she covers preventing the destruction of the diabetic foot: IDF clinical practice recommendations and guidelines on protecting the diabetic foot.

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In this training, Katia Langton covers the three categories diabetic wounds fall into: neuropathic, ischemic, and neuroischemic. Knowing the distinct features of each wound category is essential to identifying wound progression, infection, and healing.

Failure to properly identify the type of wound that exists can lead to an ineffective diabetic wound treatment plan, causing long-term complications or amputation.

We are now offering Shock Wave Therapy at Oceanwalk Pedorthic Clinic in Nanaimo.

For the past 20 years, Shock Wave Therapy has been used, with great success, as an effective and non-invasive treatment of a number of chronic musculoskeletal conditions including:

• Plantar Fasciitis
• Chronic Tendonitis including Achilles Tendonitis
• Shoulder Bursitis
• Chronic Cervical and Lumbar Pain
• Epicondylitis
• Hallux Limitus
• Chronic Heel Spurs
• Painful Peripheral Neuropathy

A Shock Wave is a longitudinal acoustic wave travelling with ultrasonic speed in the water of the body tissue.  This single pressure pulse with a short needle-like positive spike of less than 1 microsecond.

Shock Wave Therapy works to disrupt chronic pain by introducing a healing shock into the system which promotes increased vascularity, stimulates tissue healing, reduces calcification in the tissues, increases local anti-inflammatory products and inhibits pain receptors to achieve pain relief.

Researchers have shown that the local delivery of Shock Wave Therapy stimulates the early expression of angiogenesis-related growth factors, including endothelial nitric oxide synthase, vascular endothelial growth factor and proliferating cell nuclear antigen. As such, it results in new vessel in-growth that improves blood supply, increases cell proliferation and accelerates tissue regeneration and healing.

Based on this research, we recommend a progressive Shock Wave Therapy protocol in the treatment of these chronic conditions and clients are seen each week for 8 weeks in order to get the best outcomes.  

Contact us to learn more about Shock Wave Therapy or to book an appointment today.

​The sharp stabbing pain, numbing and tingling that wake you up at night and make you walk around to alleviate your foot pain, is horrible! But it also serves a purpose...

It is your warning signal that the nerves in your feet are becoming damaged and dying.

This discomfort gets you to seek help and protect the Neuropathic foot from complications; it is your bodies natural warning signal.

Once your feet are protected you can now improve your quality of life and live more comfortably.

We offer an effective and conservative approach to this including Cold Laser Therapy and Shockwave Therapy.

Please contact us today - your future self will thank you!

Katia Langton of OceanWalk Pedorthic Clinic was recently featured in Ha-Shilth-Sa (Canada's Oldest First Nation's Newspaper) for showing up to help Port Alberni to help those who suffer from foot, knee or back pain. 

Katia Langton of OceanWalk Pedorthic Clinic is a certified pedorthist and has been to Port Alberni on three occasions providing mobile foot clinics to First Nations communities.

“The goal of the mobile foot clinic is to assess, risk categorize and treat patients with painful foot conditions or diabetes (for their annual assessment) in order to keep them active, walking and mobile,”

If you'd like to learn more about how Katia and the team at OceanWalk Pedorthic Clinic are serving local communities (like Port Alberni) read the full article here.

Flattened arches in your feet can cause the buttock muscles
to stop firing which can lead to an unstable low back.

The hip flexors in the groin must now overwork to compensate
for the buttock muscles going on vacation and no longer working.

This feels like a groin strain which limits mobility in the hips, causing pain in the hips and this continues to inhibit the buttock muscles from working/firing.

Unstable low backs are easily injured with simple tasks like stepping down from the sidewalk!

Some overuse injuries in the feet and mechanical foot pain on walking is an attempt for your feet to assist in stabilizing your hips and low back.

It is imperative with chronic hip and low back pain, not responding to care, that the feet get assessed and corrected from the ground up!

Contact us if you'd like to learn more or book an appointment with us.