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As 2018 comes to a close, ACFAOM wishes its members, educational partners and all members of our profession a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the profession, we plan to provide the readers of the ACFAOM Foot & Ankle Weekly a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 8.
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Podiatry Management
From Oct. 2: You get called to the hospital
for a “routine” consult.
You drive twenty minutes
to the hospital, take
another seven minutes
walking to the patient’s room, then
spend five minutes finding and reviewing
the patient’s medical record
(possibly after taking three minutes
to reset your login info). After all
this, it is clear you have been consulted
to cut the patient’s toenails.
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Podiatry Today
From Sept. 25: As the new fiscal year begins next month, any changes to the ICD-10 (diagnoses) codes that we use will go into effect Oct. 1. There are a total of 473 code changes this year. That includes 279 new codes, 143 revised codes and 51 codes that have been deactivated. Some of these changes are pertinent to podiatrists and they are listed below.
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Podiatry Management
From June 5:
By most accounts, the complaint
of heel pain is the
most common one of presenting
patients in a typical
podiatric practice. Headed
by the diagnosis of plantar fasciitis,
there can be many causes for pain
in this part of the foot. Fortunately,
podiatric physicians
are well-armed to handle this
symptom.
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Podiatry Today
From May 29: It is almost summertime and that means the season of perspiration. With 250,000 sweat glands in a pair of feet, many people may suffer from hyperhidrosis. Although excessive sweating occurs more in the summer months, patients with chronic hyperhidrosis typically suffer all year long.
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Podiatry Today
From May 8: Richard Blake DPM writes:
A patient recently contacted me after having alcohol injections for Morton's neuroma. She had unsuccessful surgery several years ago for Morton's neuroma and was having the same pain level after surgery as before surgery. Her insurance company denied my request for another magnetic resonance image since I was not going to do more surgery. I just wanted to know what I was dealing with.
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Lower Extremity Review
From Aug. 21: Functional rehabilitation training protocols typically consist of stability and postural control exercises aimed at recovering from the proprioceptive defect that occurs after an ankle injury and preventing recurrent sprains by improving stabilometric results.
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Medical Xpress
From Nov. 6: According to the guidelines of human anatomy, the ligaments in the ankle are grouped by two ligament complexes: The first is the lateral collateral ligament in the side of the joint formed by three independent ligaments. The second is the medial or deltoid collateral ligament. In this new scientific study, the UB research team defined a new anatomical structure in the ankle, the lateral fibulotalocalcaneal ligament complex.
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HealthDay News
From March 27: For people with chronic heel pain, costly "custom" shoe inserts are probably a waste of money, a new research review suggests.
Researchers found that pricey devices were generally no better than inexpensive store-bought inserts — or any other "conservative" treatment — when it came to managing plantar fasciitis.
Plantar fasciitis causes pain in the heel, due to irritation in the fibrous band of tissue that runs from the heel to the base of the toes.
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NBC News
From April 24: There’s a new procedure for getting rid of bunions that’s less invasive, less painful and has a shorter recovery time than the traditional surgery, though it’s not yet widely available.
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Physicians Practice
From June 12: Since my first article appeared in Physicians Practice in 2011, I’ve heard from numerous medical professionals, who have contacted me to ask questions, seek advice, express opinions, and extend compliments. And while some have disagreed with my suggestions, many more have sent notes of support.
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