Epidemiological profile of the affections of the foot in consulting Podiatry
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Material and Method: Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the variables in medical records of patients in a Podiatric Clinic of La Coruña Province. Non-experimental, descriptive study with retrospective analysis of a representative sample of the population with a confidence interval of 95% (p≤0,05) and an accuracy of ±6%.
Results: 236 medical records were selected randomly. The more representative type of patient are middle-aged women and the most common motive for coming to the clinic has been suffering from pain in the feet (81.36 %) a high prevalence of keratopathies affections of the foot was found( 74.6 % ), as well as nail affections (55.1%).
Conclusions: Being female and elderly age are the variables that have demonstrated a strong statistical association with the appearance of podiatric conditions. The target population to focus on preventive action as to the conditions of the foot, would be the school population. Conducting an awareness program of the use of appropriate footwear for the wearer's foot, the activity performed and the surface where this is done; especially in the female adolescent population, which is starting to develop the use of inappropriate footwear.
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