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Steps Clinicians Can Take When Developing Customized Nutritional Interventions
David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD, discusses his recently published study "Nutrition Interventions in Adults with Diabetic Foot Ulcers" in which he shares steps clinicians can take to develop a customized nutritional intervention.
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David 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. And I helped to run our Limb Preservation Program as well as our research group called SALSA, fittingly, or the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance.
Well, I'll tell you this is something that is so easy. One of the first things they can do is just phone a friend. I would say if I were asking for help, I would phone my friend, the registered dietician. I think getting him or her on the case with you, could be such a great way forward. And it's something that we really don't think much about, or maybe we might just pay a little bit of attention to it. But really getting that moving can has really, in our experience...I'm not going to use the word game-changer too much, but I will here. Really could be a game-changer. And he or she may want to incorporate certain different types of food types or even add on something, like medical foods or something along those lines that might help supplement a current diet, and just make little changes that can last a lifetime.
