In the PAD study, I had various tests you will likely be familiar with, including the filament test, manual pulse registrations, plus a doppler and blood pressure readings from arms, my cal and bog toes, then repeated after "stress" (aka 50 heel rises).
Unfortunately funding is often time limited but they may still be running if they did not make the numbers up. Given the link and trial is still live it might well mean that they are still looking.
Your diabetes nurse should be checking your feet regularly at your reviews, have you not even had those checks done? Yes podiatry criteria is much stricter now but if you have PAD symptoms and / or neuropathy then you should be being referred over for changed symptoms.
Agree, it’s so reassuring and they are looking for patients who can be followed up on with in 12 months so to check for changes and if the new equipment/process is working.
I was asked to do a peakflow by practice nurse last year for asthma review. I forget if it was part of my NHS health check appointment, or alongside one of my diabetes follow up appointments
Infection may limit capacity but not necessarily flow rate of breath. One of the effects of asthma is that it makes it more difficult to breath out, hence lower peak flow. During an asthma attack, someone isn't struggling to breathe because they can't breathe in, it's because they aren't clearing enough air out of their lungs on the breathing out due to bronchospasm, which limits the space available for a new breath in and therefore the oxygen available for oxygen exchangeI did one for a rail track medical.
I aced it, even after collapsing coughing and gasping after blowing, with a flu like infection on the day!
