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The Importance of Flexibility in Nutritional Intervention
David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, discusses his recently published study "Nutrition Interventions in Adults with Diabetic Foot Ulcers" in which he shares the importance of having flexibility with nutritional intervention when treating diabetic foot ulcers.
Transcript
Dr. David G. Armstrong: I'm David Armstrong. I'm a professor of surgery here at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in beautiful Los Angeles, California. I help to run our limb preservation program, as well as our research group called SALSA, fittingly, or the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance.
How important is flexibility when it comes to nutritional intervention?
Sure, it's easy to talk about, and it's hard to do.
Imagine if you were maybe 40 or 50 years old, or you'd lived with diabetes, or you've lived one way, maybe with a diet that you've grew up with for that long, for decades. Then all of a sudden, some doctor comes in and says, "All right, change everything. Straighten up and fly right. Then leave."
Unfortunately, that dictatorial sort of thing, it just doesn't work. Doing things to people is a lot different and probably a lot less gratifying than doing them with people and bringing this team together. Again, including the dietitian is really, really important.
