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ACFAOM
ACFAOM will be holding the 2017 Annual Meeting at APMA's "The National" in Nashville, Tennessee on Friday, July 28. We hope you will attend the meeting, which has three important segments: HEEL PAIN: Diagnosis and Conservative Treatment, the annual membership business meeting, and a joint reception with ABPM. ACFAOM members in attendance will receive a $100 refund from ACFAOM after the meeting to defray the cost of your education.
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ACFAOM
An ACFAOM Certified Clinical Podiatric Medical Assistant (CCPMA) is taught the "how-tos" of working as a member of a doctor of podiatry's team. The CCPMA online course educates each student to carry out routine nail care, conduct pre-treatment foot exams, collect patient health information correctly, set up a sterile field, and much more. Each candidate must complete a 40-hour internship in a licensed podiatrist's office, which is usually provided by their employer podiatrist. The CCPMA truly becomes a podiatrist's second pair of hands and eyes.
Learn more about the valuable benefits of the CCPMA. $100 off the standard fee of $599 for assistants sponsored by an ACFAOM member.
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Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
In this review we report on the state of cell therapy of critical limb ischemia with respect to differences between diabetic and non-diabetic patients mainly from the clinical point of view. CLI is the most severe form of peripheral arterial disease and its diagnosis and treatment in diabetic patients is very difficult. The therapeutic effect of standard methods of CLI treatment is only partial - more than one third of diabetic patients are not eligible for standard revascularization; therefore, new therapeutic techniques such as cell therapy have been studied in clinical trials.
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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.
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Lower Extremity Review
Microcirculatory blood flow two weeks after Achilles tendon repair is correlated with long-term patient-reported and functional outcomes, according to research from Sweden in which blood flow in both the injured and contralateral tendons was associated with healing potential.
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Foot & Ankle International
Ankle fractures are among the most prevalent traumatic orthopaedic injuries. A large proportion of patients sustaining operative ankle fractures are admitted directly from the emergency department prior to operative management. In the authors' experience, however, many closed ankle injuries may be safely and effectively managed on an outpatient basis. The aim of this study was to characterize the economic impact of routine inpatient admission of ankle fractures.
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Podiatry Today
A 46-year-old female patient presented to the Maricopa Medical Center Emergency Department in Phoenix with the complaint of multiple painful sores on her right foot that drain occasionally. She reported having problems with her foot for the past 11 years. The problems reportedly started with a small lump on the bottom of her foot and eventually spread over the entire foot. She reported burning pain and recent difficulty walking. Previous treatment for her skin condition took place in Mexico many years ago and included a short course of an unknown antibiotic, which resulted in minimal improvement.
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Journal of Foot and Ankle Research
The foot and ankle represent a common site for tophi in people with gout, yet it is unclear whether the presence of tophi is related to impaired muscle function. This study aimed to determine the association between foot and ankle tophi and muscle force in people with gout.
Participants with gout were stratified into two groups based on the presence of clinically-evident tophi affecting the foot or ankle on physical examination. Isometric muscle force for plantarflexion, dorsiflexion, inversion and eversion was measured using static dynamometry.
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Podiatry Management
They are conversation diverters,
just as the words
ALWAYS and NEVER are.
Patients and friends will
challenge and doubt you
with those words. Killer words make
your patients, and potential patients,
veer away from the real point of your
conversation. So, it's best that we
eliminate them from our routine and
vocabulary. It's not easy to do. If
it were easy to do, everyone would
be doing it ... and we know everyone
isn't doing it.
Here are the top rated killer
words. Remove them from your sales
and patient service conversations and
watch the scene (personal and business)
go smoother.
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Podiatry Today
Brachymetatarsia is defined as a congenital or, less commonly, traumatic condition in which a metatarsal bone is shorter than the other metatarsals. The condition typically occurs in the fourth metatarsal and is often associated with a shortened metacarpal bone as well. Initially, one identifies this hypoplastic condition by clinical examination and confirms it with radiographs. Although this condition is not common, most foot and ankle specialists have had patients present with the condition and questions. Of all of the patients I have seen with brachymetatarsia, none have had pain. Thus, one can classify this condition as a cosmetic entity.
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Medical Economics
A quarter of patients are likely to switch physicians if they find a doctor with a more positive attitude — just one of the multitude of reasons that patients give for making a change, according to a new study from Weatherby Healthcare.
Though 49 percent of patients stay with their doctor for five years or more — often due to comfort and familiarity — patients are sometimes compelled to switch providers.
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