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ACFAOM’s Live Learning Center has been developed to bring current education on all aspects of ACFAOM’s mission to its members, and also to DPMs who look to ACFAOM as the one professional society in podiatric medicine that represents what most practicing podiatrists do on a day-to-day basis. This will be an ongoing project and will grow over time as more educational materials are embedded in the center. The emphasis will be on biomechanics and medicine, the cornerstone of contemporary podiatric practice. Read More.
ACFAOM CAREER CENTER: Are you looking for a new podiatric assistant (or new DPMs) for your practice? Consider posting job openings onto the ACFAOM Career Center. College benefits apply for pricing—ACFAOM members can post a 30-day basic job posting for free. View pricing options for members and non-members, and post your positions today.
ACFAOM
Amol Saxena, DPM and Robert M. Conenello, DPM will be the featured guests on tonight's Meet the Masters audio-conference (at 9 p.m. ET) with host, and former ACFAOM president, Bret Ribotsky, DPM, FACFAOM. Dr. Amol Saxena is the current President of the American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery. Dr. Robert Conenello is the global clinical advisor of Special Olympics International and is the Immediate Past President of the American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine.To register for this FREE weekly, and unique, learning experience that will give you additional insights into the profession's past and future, click here.
Podiatry Today
Midfoot beaming for patients with Charcot can be a valuable tool for deformity correction and may help obviate complications that can hamper healing. These authors detail their experience with the use of beaming, focusing on effective correction techniques and innovative concepts such as titanium trusses.
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Podiatry Management
Podiatric physicians — all
medical practitioners — are facing unprecedented challenges in terms of reimbursement and regulation.
Regardless of how you feel personally about the Accountable Care Act — Obamacare — the Republicans' and
President Donald Trump's stated plans to immediately repeal the ACA in January, whether they have a replacement
plan or not, will create an enormous amount of uncertainty. With turbulent times in mind, here are seven steps that podiatric physicians can
take to weather the future's stormy
seas.
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ScienceDaily
In 2015, a research team led by the University of A Coruña conducted a study with people with a mean age of 80 years. In it, they analysed whether the changes to foot morphology that occur in elderly individuals, and their tolerance for pain, led to them using the wrong shoes. They concluded that the majority (83 percent) did not use the correct size and that, on occasions, they should have been using a different size for each foot.
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News-Medical.net
Walking, running, sprinting — every movement of the foot stretches the Achilles' tendon. When jumping, the loads can approach ten times the body weight. Amazingly, the connection between the heel bone and Achilles' tendon withstands theses tremendous loads. A team of doctors, physicists, chemists and engineers at the Technical University of Munich has now discovered why.
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Podiatry Today
Although the total contact cast can be effective for offloading diabetic foot ulcers, it is not in wide usage. These authors assert the gold standard for offloading lies in the non-removability of the device and offer a closer look at the merits of transitional offloading.
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O&P News
Changing the height and durometer of an orthosis affected the loading of the foot and may have the potential to improve overall gait, according to a speaker at the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium.
Andrea J. Ikeda, CP, of the Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence, and colleagues, conducted a study to determine the influence of heel wedge properties on gait of patients using an Intrepid Dynamic Exoskeletal Orthosis.
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Physicians Practice
Electronic patient engagement has extended healthcare beyond the four walls of the practice. However, state or federal requirements make it paramount that patients have secure access when communicating electronically with their provider, according to David Holtzman.
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| | CURRENT RESEARCH ARTICLE OF INTEREST |
British Journal of Sports Medicine
Foot orthoses were found to be effective for preventing overall injuries and stress fractures but not soft-tissue injuries, while shock-absorbing insoles were not found to be effective for preventing any injury. However, further well-designed trials will assist the accuracy and precision of the estimates of risk reduction as the quality of the included trials varied greatly.
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