Mahya Tavakkoli

Mahya Tavakkoli is a chiropodist and wound specialist at M&H Foot and Ankle Clinic in Toronto. Her passion lies in wound care and salvage therapy, which is rare to find in Canada. Mahya has liaised with infectious disease and infection control doctors, physicians, orthopedic surgeons, vascular surgeons, and home care to ensure that the best possible treatment plans are followed to give the desired outcome.

Articles by Mahya Tavakkoli

• Charity diabetic care in Ghana, Africa

  Tuesday, March 11, 2014

  Diabetes is a major and fast-increasing cause of morbidity, premature mortality and disability. As such, it is a costly disease bearing individual, psychosocial and economic implications. This is why I have decided to participate in a volunteer humanitarian aid trip.

• The influence of family on the treatment of diabetic ulcers

  Monday, December 02, 2013

  In patients with Type 2 diabetes, there are some factors that are not in the patients control in affecting their health, such as genetic susceptibility and family ethnicity. But most factors are in their control, such as level of activity, lifestyle and eating habits. It is rare to find a disease with long-term effects in the patients' control, but Type 2 diabetic patients have this advantage. For a diabetic patient, the most important factor affecting wound healing is controlling their blood-glucose level.