September is Vascular Awareness Month and the Circulation Foundation are running #TheBodyWalk as a national campaign to raise awareness of vascular disease and imperative funding.By increasing awareness and raising funds, the Circulation Foundation are able to continue supporting patients to live their best lives whilst having to cope with serious circulatory diseases. Although these diseases affect 40% of the population, they are not well known by most people. In particular, peripheral arterial disease, the ‘angina’ of the lower limbs. 

I, as a Vascular Specialist Podiatrist and a portly Yorkshireman with a Brompton who is need of some arterial self-care, am joining the challenge to collectively walk / cycle the 60,000 miles of the Arterial Tree. To help raise awareness of this life and limb-threatening condition, affecting 1 in 5 of people aged 60+ #savinglivesandlimbs