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ACFAOM
Your podiatric assistant acts as your third and fourth pair of hands with your patients. An ACFAOM Certified Clinical Podiatric Medical Assistant (CCPMA) is trained to capably perform routine nail care, pre-treatment foot exams, collect patient health information correctly, set up a sterile field and much more. Learn more about the course and have your assistant register online. $100 off the standard fee of $599 for assistants sponsored by an ACFAOM member. If you need more information before deciding to enroll your assistant, contact Angelica Tom, at atom@paimgmt.com or 301-718-6524.
ACFAOM
AMPA Executive Director Jim Christina, DPM will be the guest on today's Meet the Masters audio-conference (at 9 PM ET) with host and former ACFAOM president, Bret Ribotsky, DPM, FACFAOM. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Christina has served on staff as APMA's Director of Scientific Affairs. Before APMA, he was in private practice for 20 years and was previously Chief of Podiatry at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, MD. Register for this FREE weekly learning experience that will give you additional insights into the profession's past and future by clicking here.
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Lower Extremity Review
A two-year prospective study of female heel-strike runners found that those who suffered medically diagnosed injuries had higher impact variables at baseline than those who had never had an injury.
Although other studies had linked heel-strike impacts to injuries, none had ever done so prospectively, said first author Irene Davis, PT, Ph.D., a professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Spaulding National Running Center, both in Boston. The study included female runners who had been free of injury for at least six months at the time of enrollment.
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The Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery
Measuring bone angles is an important method for diagnosing disease and predicting the prognosis in orthopedics. Traditionally, the angle is measured using lines drawn manually and adjusted by the naked eye. The purpose of the present study was to propose new methods to measure the bone angles formed by the axes of the calcaneus with good reliability and low operational error. The two new methods used linear regression analysis of the points inside and on the "envelope" line. The traditional method used the vector of the lines drawn for calculation.
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PrognoCIS Electronic Health Record (EHR) and services use the latest internet technologies to provide efficient practice management and medical billing, meeting the needs of podiatrists around the country.
Learn why our members say we’re "More Than a Great EHR."
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Diabetes.co.uk
Skin grafts and tissue replacement therapy, when used in conjunction with standard therapy, accelerates the healing of foot ulcers, according to new research.
The study, which was conducted by researchers at the Academic Medical Centre at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Surgery, also found that the same treatments resulted in lower incidence of amputation.
The researchers conducted a systematic review of the available data on the subject. Selection criteria was limited to randomized controlled trials of skin graft or tissue replacement therapy that had been used to treat foot ulcers in people with diabetes.
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Podiatry Today
Ankle-foot orthoses can be beneficial for a number of lower extremity conditions. These expert panelists discuss when to use a custom-hinged AFO or a custom-gauntlet AFO. They also debate whether podiatrists would benefit from utilizing pedorthists in their practice for possible assistance with AFO prescriptions.
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Knoxville News Sentinel
Would you trust a 96-year-old surgeon to put you under his knife?
In Fort Lauderdale, there's no shortage of patients for Dr. Albert R. Brown, a podiatrist who has spent more than six decades helping people solve their foot problems.
Often that involves filing down foot bones or the bony bumps — known as bunions — that form over bones.
That's what brought in Nancy Spinedi Delledonne, a part-time South Florida resident from Montreal. She had a bunion that kept her in terrible pain. "I was pestered by friends and relatives to take it out because you can't find shoes. I'm aching all the time." Finally she was convinced to visit Brown, but she concedes the thought of a surgeon his age "scared me a little."
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Podiatry Today
People with diabetes have a 25 percent lifetime risk of developing foot wounds. Annually, hundreds of billions of dollars go toward the treatment of diabetes-related diseases with up to $1 of every $3 spent linked directly to the care of diabetic foot ulcers. The enormity of that burden, in expenditures and time, translates clinically as we care for the diabetic population. The end goals, unequivocally, are to heal wounds and decrease recurrence.
There are instances, however, when clinicians encounter patients with severe concomitant disease states that inhibit healing.
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News-Medical.net
Decades ago doctors made house calls and would trek to patients' homes in the worst of weather to care for patients. Well, those days have passed and we are in a new era when it comes to healthcare. One area the medical profession has been a little slower to embrace is digital technology, especially for patients' records. Yet, three-quarters of Americans (76 percent) agree that all doctors today should be using digital technology for patients' records. And, it is not just younger generations who feel this way as over three-quarters (77 percent) of those 55 and older agree all doctors should be using digital technology for patients' records today.
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Podiatry Management
You have a special individualized relationship
with each and every
person in your life: your
child, spouse, mother,
father, best friend. It's obvious that
each of these unique relationships
must be nurtured in order for them to grow and prosper. There are
countless books, magazines, blogs
and websites dedicated solely to
a parent's relationship with their
child. There are just as many, if
not more, resources for the intimate relationship shared between
you and your partner. While the
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us how to be better parents and
spouses, one vital relationship is
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our lives — the relationship between
the physician and office manager.
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Foot & Ankle International
Surgical site infection is routinely cited as the most common complication following orthopedic foot and ankle surgery. Our institution uses 4 percent chlorhexidine gluconate followed by 70 percent isopropyl alcohol to reduce skin bacterial loads prior to surgery. These solutions have potential synergistic qualities to prevent a postoperative infection. The purpose of this study was to determine if the order of these solutions has a significant effect on the residual bacterial pathogens load following operative site preparation for foot and ankle surgery, as evidenced by positive culture swabs.
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CareCredit, a healthcare credit card, enables you to help more patients by providing a convenient financial resource to pay for rising deductibles and copays. With CareCredit, practices can minimize the cost and time of billing and get paid in two business days. Call 800-300-3046 (option 5) or visit www.carecredit.com. MORE
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Physicians Practice
To thrive, physicians should strive for completion. By working through daily tasks they can achieve clear mental benefits and recharge for the next day. To thrive in a medical practice throughout your career and during your life, while experiencing less stress, it is vital to understand the power of "completions." Ultimately, everything becomes complete. Every pile on your desk, in one way or the other, will cease to exist in time. The piles will diminish because you've acted on them; or there is an earthquake and the building collapses; or because someone takes over your office when you move on, are replaced, or die.
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