Jérôme Haddad (MSc, PhDs Biomechanics) is a podiatrist from Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital in Paris, specialising in gait analysis and diabetic foot management.
Areas of expertise
- Gait analysis and general foot health
- Diabetic foot assessment, acute and chronic wound care management
- Morton’s syndrome
- Tarsal tunnel syndrome
- Second ray pain syndrome
- External ankle sprain
- Metatarsal stress fracture
- Internal or external tibiofemoral compression
- Calcaneal spur
- Gluteus medius tendinopathy
- Plantar myoaponeuritis
- Unequal length of the lower limbs
- Hallux valgus (bunion)
- Coxarthrosis
- Hallux rigidus
- Skin pathologies
- Sesamoidopathy
- Hollow foot
- Tibialis posterior tendinopathy
- Flat foot
- Tibialis anterior tendinopathy
- Valgus foot
- Fibular muscle tendinopathy
- Varus foot
Diabetic foot assessment, acute and chronic wound care management
The prevalence of diabetes is 8.3%, which represents 382 million people with diabetes. This is projected to rise to 592 million by 2030 (Foundation and Federation, 2006), with part of the increase linked to population growth and part to the rise in obesity.
One of the most common complications of diabetes, especially when it is poorly controlled, is a loss of sensation in the skin of the feet caused by nerve damage: peripheral neuropathy. It is estimated that ten years after the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, 20% of patients have neuropathy; 50% of patients have neuropathy after 25 years of diabetes (Valensi 2010), and 7% already have neuropathy when their diabetes is discovered.
Publications
- 2019: book “Diabetic foot syndrome – Multidisciplinary management”. Ha Van G., Haddad J., Perrier A., Bensimon Y. et al.
- 2017: “Biofeedback strategy and reduction of foot pressure in diabetic patient with neuropathy: Benefit of connected insoles FEETME: A preliminary study”. ScienceDirect: Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 26 September 2017, 60S (2017) e39-e43. Georges Ha Van, Jerome Haddad, Yves Bensimon, Laurent Dillard, Damien Jacobs.
- 2017: “Connected insoles for daily use: comparison of pressure and temporal parameters measured by two embedded foot pressure devices”, publication under validation by the journal Gait and Posture. Corresponding author: Antoine Perrier, Jérôme Haddad, MSc; Yves Bensimon; Thomas Mollard, Eng; Georges Ha Van, MD.
- 2014: “Podiatric management of diabetic patients at risk”, Jérôme Haddad, published in the journal of the podiatrist, vol. 7, no. 39, p. 11-14.
- 2011: “The diabetic foot”, published in the Encyclopédie Médico-Chirurgicale, EMC Podologie: Ha Van G., Hartemann A., Gautier F., Haddad J., Bensimon Y., Ponseau W., Baillot J., Fourniols E., Koskas F., Grimaldi A. Diabetic foot. EMC (Elsevier Masson SAS, Paris), Podology, 27-075-A-05, 2011.
