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What does the future hold for podiatric surgeons?
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The ACFAS/APMA split was one of the most controversial developments to affect podiatry in years. Accordingly, this author talks to various podiatrists about the aftermath of the controversy, the emergence of the American Society of Podiatric Surgeons and how the proposed CPME 320 changes might affect both surgical training and biomechanical knowledge. More
Stem cells for diabetic foot ulcers
Podiatry Arena
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Treatment of chronic wounds is a continuing clinical problem and socio-economic burden with diabetic foot ulcers alone costing the NHS £300 million a
year. Scientists in Bristol have found that human fetal stem cells can effectively be used to treat back leg ischemic ulcers in a model of type 1 diabetes. The researchers also found the culture in which the stem cells had been grown mimicked the wound-healing ability of the cells, suggesting that they could be used as a "factory" of wound-healing substances. Alternatively, the active ingredients in the culture, once identified, could be used instead; this would avoid the ethical concerns of
using human fetal stem cells.
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Treatment is
designed to dissolve blood clots that kill
Detroit Free Press
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In a single day, Lara Flynn went from healthy to hurting. "My leg was purple and swollen from my hip down," recalls Flynn, a Dearborn Heights, Mich., mom with two young children. "I was scared to death." Flynn, 33, called her sister, who rushed her to the hospital. Flynn was hospitalized with several large blood clots in her legs, a problem known as deep vein thrombosis, as well as clots that spread to her lungs.
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Study refutes link between fracture risk and use of vitamin A-related substances
Ortho Supersite
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Topical and systemic vitamin A analogues do not alter fracture risk, according to a Danish database study in which patients with fractures were matched to three demographically similar patients without fractures. Very high doses of vitamin A analogues -- compounds similar to vitamin A prescribed to treat acne, psoriasis and other skin conditions -- have previously been linked to impairment of the markers involved in bone
reconstruction and bone mineral density, according to investigator Peter Vestergaard, MD, PhD, DrMedSc., at Aarhus University Hospital, in Aarhus, Denmark, and colleagues.
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Struggles with pain
Journal Standard
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For the past 20 years, Anna Marie Sieberns, 25, of Freeport, Ill., has had her struggles with pain. She remembers the day she first developed the pain that has taken hold of her life. At the time, Sieberns was just 5-years-old. She was in kindergarten and awoke one morning with severe hip pain. She had recently fallen on the ice. Her parents, John and Nina Sieberns took their young daughter to the hospital. The pain went away. Life
resumed.
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New device gives local woman with MS better mobility
York Daily Record
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By the time you read this article, Deborah Treut will have already walked her 12-year-old Yorkie, Aladdin -- an activity the New York resident has not enjoyed since December. Since the early 1990s, Treut has lived with multiple sclerosis -- a disease that causes a breakdown in communication between a person's nerve cells and their spinal cord.
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Gout at the age of 15
Asia One Health
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Joseph Tan was 15 when he suffered his first gout attack. At first, he thought he had suffered a sprained toe on his right foot when there was swelling and
pain. A blood test confirmed he had gout instead. "When you're so young, you don't expect it," said Mr. Tan, now 40 and a manager in the IT line. But the diagnosis did not come as a complete surprise for him then. Other members of his family, including his father and paternal grandmother, also had gout, which is a hereditary ailment.
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Friday letters: Medicare not enforcing its own rules
St. Petersburg Times
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The federal government has identified Florida as a magnet for Medicare fraud and abuse. But because Medicare is not enforcing its own regulations, Floridians
requiring the use of orthotic and prosthetic services (artificial limbs and orthopedic braces) are at risk of receiving substandard care. And professionals who have completed the necessary education and training to become Medicare-qualified and state licensed are losing millions of dollars of business to unqualified and unlicensed suppliers.
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Dorsolateral Achilles rupture repair with accelerated rehabilitation has athletes back on field in four months
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A minimal lateral incision can be used to repair acute Achilles tendon ruptures and avoid complications such as sural nerve injury, according to a study presented here. The findings were presented by Scott A. Hrnack, MD, at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Arthroscopy Association of North America. Hrnack
added that the minimal lateral incision provides excellent functional outcomes and can permit a return to sports within 4 months.
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Bill could help fund prosthetics
Delmarva Now
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A bill making its way through the state Legislature would assure "prosthetic parity" for policy holders who experience the loss of a limb by requiring insurers to adopt reimbursement rates equal to federal programs such as Medicaid, which cover 80 percent of the cost. Rep. Gerald Brady, the sponsor of House Bill 343, said the increasing demand for such devices among returning veterans and the increasing inability of victims to
afford the necessary prosthetics necessitated the action.
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The basic system FDM-T consists of a treadmill ergometer with an integrated, calibrated measuring sensor. The sensor element consists of high-quality capacitive force sensors. On an area of 150 x 50 cm the sensor unit consists of more than 5000 pressure / force sensors. More info
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Our list of products includes more then just a nice little set of four round good-for-nothing burrs. We sell thirty different and distinctive burrs. These burrs range in size, shape and style, from the most aggressive to the best smoothers and one that could almost be called the all-one-one solution - "The Happy Burr." More info
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The TOM-CAT Scanner minimizes the steps required to prescribe your orthotics. Traditional casting methods require messy plaster, clean up and sometimes requires more than one casting to get the proper mold for your feet. The TOM-CAT Scanning system replaces traditional methods and produces better and faster results. More
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