Your Feet
The Clinical Director of Campbell Drug Pedorthic Services is Collett Campbell, C.Ped, L.Ped. Collett is a BCP-Certified Pedorthist and a State of Oklahoma Licensed Pedorthist. She is involved in direct patient care and education for diabetic and arthritic foot care management.
The certified pedorthist (C.Ped) evaluates and designs foot orthoses and shoes for patients requiring protective support or correction due to muscle/bone impairment, disease, or deformity. Utilizing training in biomechanics, gait analysis/patho mechanics, kinesiology, pathology, materials science, research methods, and diagnostic-imaging techniques, the pedorthist works to restore mobility and to prevent or limit disability.
The services of a certified pedorthist are necessary to limit the effects of challenges from birth problems such as cerebral palsy, hemophilia, osteogenesis imperfecta, spina bifida, and malformation of the long bones. Also fractures, brain damage, muscle, tendon, and cartilage tears, and spinal cord injuries are often helped by prescribed orthoses. Pedorthic treatment often benefits those with problems caused by stroke, muscular dystrophy, arthritis, diabetes, and multiple sclerosis.
Whether your pedorthic needs are the result of disease, traumatic injury, or congenital problems, your rehabilitation is personally prescribed. Your pedorthist utilizes the prescription from your physician and will consult your physical or occupational therapist. Your pedorthic device will be custom designed and created by Campbell Drug Pedorthic Services.
As a Diabetic patient, you should be cautious when procuring therapeutic shoes and inserts under the Medicare Therapeutic Shoe Bill to insure you are receiving the level of service intended. The evaluation, measuring, casting, and fitting of these devices in a clinical setting is a process that involves considerable personal contact between the practitioner and the patient. This is as it should be. Care is taken by the provider of these devices to insure proper fit and function. Patient education and follow up is done in the office. Adjustments are often needed after initial fitting. The potential complications that can follow improper fitting of these devices can be serious. Modifications and adjustments to the shoes and inserts are sometimes needed. These modifications and adjustments can only be done by someone with the proper training and equipment.
Medicare does not intend to provide free shoes and inserts to all diabetics. The physician responsible for your primary diabetic care must certify additional medical complications, attesting that you really need special shoes. Prefabricated inserts are sometimes indicated: not every patient needs the custom made inserts.
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