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Podiatry Today
Recurrent sprains and long-term residual symptoms are fairly common in patients who suffer ankle sprains. With this in mind, this author provides a comprehensive review of the literature and a practical guide to conservative treatment at various stages for lateral ankle sprains.
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ScienceDaily
Researchers at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts, led by Jonathan Garlick, have established for the first time that skin cells from diabetic foot ulcers can be reprogrammed to acquire properties of embryonic-like cells. These induced pluripotent stem cells might someday be used to treat chronic wounds. The study is published online in advance of print in Cellular Reprogramming.
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Podiatry Management
Why
is
it
that
in
modern
medicine,
there
are
still
some
of
us
who
cling
to
outdated
ideas?
Off-weighting
the
diabetic
neuropathic
ulcer
is
one
of
those
things.
What
is
most
unfortunate
is
that
the
evidence
supporting
the
various
aspects
of
ulcer
treatment
is
well-established.
For
example,
it's
well-known
and
supported
in
the
medical
literature
that
allowing
a
foot
ulcer
to
dry
out
is
not
conducive
to
healing.
This
is
one
of
the
reasons
wet
to
dry
dressings
are
a
thing
of
the
past.
Similarly,
appropriately
off-weighting
a
neuropathic
ulcer
is
a
well-established
standard
of
care.
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Medical News Today
Diabetes is a global epidemic and a leading cause of disease and death. The fact fewer than half of patients with type 2 diabetes have their disease well controlled highlights the need for new, affordable, effective medications that are not limited by unfavorable side effects. Now, a pooled analysis of nine studies that examined the effect of oral aloe vera in people with diabetes and pre-diabetes suggests the medicinal plant should be further investigated as an antidiabetic compound.
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Podiatry Today
One of the mainstay treatments of Morton's neuromas involves injections. There are three common injections and other combinations of medications in injection form.
First of all, there is the diagnostic injection of local anesthesia to see if injecting the nerve provides complete pain relief. It sometimes proves that the nerve the doctor thought was the problem really is not the problem. One would give these local anesthetic injections with medications (commonly bupivacaine) that last around five hours so the patient can be 100 percent sure of the amount of relief attained. I am a big believer in this method of identifying the right nerve or if it is a nerve at all causing the pain, since you only inject the nerve and not the tendons, ligaments, joints, etc.
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Medical Economics
In May of this year, President Obama and the U.S. Department of Labor released the long-awaited Final Rule revising the minimum salary requirement for an employee to qualify for the overtime exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act. All changes under the rule will take effect on Dec. 1.
The reason for the changes is explained in the text of the rule: "when left unchanged, the salary threshold is eroded by inflation every year. It has only been updated once since the 1970s – in 2004, when it was set too low ... [Therefore,] too many [employees] have been left working long hours for no additional pay, taking them away from their families and civic life without any extra compensation."
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Physicians Practice
Great interview questions go beyond just asking about skill sets and previous job tasks. Here are eight that get at a candidate's grit, tenacity, problem-solving skills, curiosity and experience with failure.
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Gait & Posture
Although mild leg length discrepancy is related to lower limb injuries, there is no consensus regarding its effects on the biomechanics of the lower limbs during gait. Biomechanical data of 19 healthy participants were collected while they walked under different conditions as described: (1) control condition-wearing flat thick sandals; (2) short limb condition-wearing a flat thick sandal on the left and a flat thin sandal on the right foot; (3) long limb condition: wearing flat thin sandal on the left and flat thick sandal on the right foot.
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