title: [On practicability of implementing the speciality "podiatry" in traumatology and orthopedics].
abstract: The absence of single opinion concerning the classification of foot and ankle joint pathology does not permit to formulate universal and practical approach to the identification of pathological syndromes in case of patient foot lesion. The situation is aggravated by the unsolved issues related to the terminological definition of podiatry as a direction in orthopedics to solve the issues of foot and ankle joint pathology. In actual conditions the implementation of new technologies into the structure of traumatological orthopedics care is needed. This approach permits to combine the qualities of models of effective and optimized care to patients with foot and ankle joint pathology. The study of issue related to the systematization of podiatric pathology revealed that actually no single universal classification easy-to-use in practice exists. Hence the development of original applied working scheme of foot and ankle joint pathology is proposed.
mesh_terms: D000843:Ankle Joint / Q000473:pathology; D005528:Foot / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009985:Orthopedics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011032:Podiatry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014194:Traumatology / Q000458:organization & administration*