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Podiatry Today
George Wallace, DPM writes:
My brother turned 60 a few months ago and he had a big celebration. His sister-in-law, a recently retired school teacher at the age of 64, comparable to my own age, asked when it would be my turn to retire. I murmured some vague answer. Then she popped a fantastic question: Have your skills diminished? What a thought-provoking, timely and somewhat scary question. My knee-jerk response was “no” with no follow-up.
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Journal of Foot and Ankle Research
Infectious gangrene of the foot is a serious complication of diabetes that usually leads to a certain level of lower-extremity amputation. Nevertheless, the long-term survival and factors associated with mortality in such patients have yet to be elucidated.
A total of 157 patients with type 2 diabetes who received treatment for infectious foot gangrene at a major diabetic foot center in Taiwan from 2002 to 2009 were enrolled, of whom 90 had major LEAs (above the ankle) and 67 had minor LEAs (below the ankle). Clinical data during treatment were used for the analysis of survival and LEA, and survival was tracked after treatment until December 2012.
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Lower Extremity Review
Shod running and peripheral neuropathy are two research topics that may seem unrelated, but they do have a key element in common — sensory feedback. Several studies have indicated footwear blocks sensory feedback, resulting in gait changes in runners. Similarly, peripheral neuropathy by definition alters sensory feedback, leading to gait changes in that patient population. Emerging research on how footwear affects the gait of runners may have implications for addressing gait changes in patients with diabetes and others who suffer from peripheral neuropathy.
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News-Medical.net
On Jan. 2, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitted the marketing of the Dermapace System, the first shock wave device intended to treat diabetic foot ulcers.
"Diabetes is the leading cause of lower limb amputations," said Binita Ashar, M.D., director of the division of surgical devices in FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. "The FDA is dedicated to making technologies available that can help improve the quality of life for those with chronic diseases. Additional options for successfully treating and healing ulcer wounds may help prevent lower limb amputations."
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
Deltoid ligament rupture is commonly seen in clinical practice; however the need to explore and surgically repair it is still in debate. The objective of the current study is to compare the outcomes of surgical treatment of ankle fracture with or without DL repair.
Between 2009 and 2015, Seventy-four ankle fractures with DL rupture were identified and followed.
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Podiatry Today
Hallux rigidus is defined as progressive lack of motion at the first metatarsophalangeal joint secondary to degenerative arthritic changes to the joint cartilage. There are a variety of surgical treatment options for hallux rigidus that have become available to foot and ankle surgeons in the last several decades.
The choice of procedure is based upon the severity of hallux rigidus.
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Endocrine Today
Patients with a non-infected neuroischemic diabetic foot ulcer were more likely to achieve wound closure within 20 weeks when randomly assigned a sucrose octasulfate dressing versus those assigned a standard wound dressing, according to findings published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.
“Delayed wound healing in neuroischemic diabetic foot ulcers has been related to excess matrix metalloprotease concentrations; these proteins destroy components of the extracellular matrix and damage growth factors and their receptors that are essential for healing,” Michael Edmonds, M.D., of the Diabetic Foot Clinic at King’s College Hospital in London, and colleagues wrote.
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Podiatry Management
Every doctor, symphony
conductor, or race car
driver knows that hundreds of steps must be
taken in order to be successful at medicine, music, or NASCAR racing, respectively. These
same stellar performers also know
that there are dozens of behaviors that must be avoided so that
every member of the audience or
each patient can have a positive
experience. Top-performing doctors
need to have an outstanding practice — that is, one that maintains
the loyalty of existing patients and
continues to attract new patients
to the practice. This article focuses on 10 behaviors that must be
avoided whenever possible.
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Gait & Posture
Clarifying the biomechanics of cane-assisted gait in elderly individuals and patients with gait disorders is important for developing better therapeutic interventions in the fields of rehabilitation and orthopedics. However, if the foot and the cane in the ipsilateral hand are placed on the same force plate simultaneously, the force plate cannot separate the forces as it records the sum of the forces.
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ACFAOM
An ACFAOM Certified Clinical Podiatric Medical Assistant (CCPMA) can perform routine nail care, pre-treatment foot exams, collect client health information correctly, set up a sterile field and much more. Click here for additional information about the CCPMA qualification and its potential value for your practice.
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Physicians Practice
In the great corporation that is the U.S. healthcare system, doctors are relegated to mere cogs in the wheel that make the machine function. Patients are now chess pieces, or prizes to be won, on the board game of life and death. Healthcare remains one of the biggest sectors of our economy and everyone wants a piece of that pie.
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