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The SPARK! seminar series, jointly presented by ACFAOM and OHI, continues in 2018 with the promise to utterly transform your practice beginning the very next day. SPARK!2018 will inspire and equip you to maximize non-surgical patient care in 3 critical areas of increasing relevance to the public and podiatry: fall risk, AFO therapy, and pediatrics. You will come away with the knowledge and hands-on, practical experience to profoundly improve your bottom line and grow the acquisition value of your practice, all while delivering increasingly essential, life-altering care. Guaranteed*.
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Podiatry Today
A new study concludes that supplementation with probiotics can help decrease the size of diabetic foot ulcers.
The study, published in Diabetes Metabolism Research and Reviews, involved 60 patients with Wagner grade 3 diabetic foot ulcers, who received either probiotics or placebo.
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Podiatry Management
Start talking to physicians
about budgets and one thing
becomes clear — they don’t
like them much. But since
it’s such a basic part of running a business, podiatric practice or
otherwise, they deal with it, even if
sometimes everyone seems to be discussing different things.
At its most basic, a budget has
two components: cost and revenue. Broadly, expenses for a medical practice break down loosely
into three areas:
space, equipment
and staffing.
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Lower Extremity Review
Lower extremity clinicians say ankle foot orthoses, rocker-soled shoes and other orthotic interventions can benefit patients with peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication by making it easier for them to exercise, and research is starting to demonstrate these benefits.
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The Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery
The present study evaluated the properties of nails, frequency of ingrown nails in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, risk factors for developing ingrown nails, and effect of diabetic polyneuropathy and vasculopathy on the development and outcome of ingrown nails. This six-month epidemiologic prospective study included 300 patients with type 2 DM attending a DM outpatient clinic for routine examinations. The general characteristics and foot changes of the study population were investigated.
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Podiatry Today
An osteochondral lesion is an injury or fracture to the chondral surface or underlying subchondral bone. These lesions occur in the talus and are generally secondary to single or multiple traumatic events. Traumatic events can cause multiple mechanisms of injury including shearing, fracture, avulsion and compaction. These injuries can result in varying degrees of partial or complete detachment of the chondral fragment.
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
Ankle tape is widely used by athletes to prevent ankle sprain. Although there is growing evidence that ankle tape improve joint position sense, but yet it is not clear even if tape improve joint position sense after muscle fatigue, because fatigue impair joint position sense and raise the risk of ankle sprain. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of ankle tape on joint position sense after local muscle fatigue.
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Medical News Today
From stand-up comedy to knitting teddy bears, some physicians have unique ways to unwind from daily stress and keep the looming threat of burnout, which hangs over the medical profession, at bay. Burnout rates among physicians in the United States are at an all time high. In fact, the levels of burnout among physicians are substantially higher than in the general population.
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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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