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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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Disability and Rehabilitation. Assistive Technology
Aging often results in a decline in somatosensory function, and such changes are associated with diminished motor performance. Input noise can enhance sensory and motor function through a mechanism known as stochastic resonance (SR). This paper describes the development and testing of a new vibrating shoe to possibly assist the elderly patients in controlling their balance and decreasing their falling risks.
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Physicians Practice
Your best marketing assets are your employees and your patients. Period. We want our patients to tell friends, family and even strangers that we rock. We want our employees engaged in the core mission — providing amazing care and caring to each and every patient. We must energize them to be an effective sales team.
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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.
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Foot & Ankle International
An intra-articular injection of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) may be an effective treatment for osteoarthritis (OA). However, its efficacy in ankle OA has not been investigated yet. The purpose of this study was to assess the safety and efficacy of an intra-articular injection of PRP in patients with ankle OA during a 24-week period.
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Podiatry Today
Okuda and colleagues first described the "positive round sign," which has become a primary indication for "frontal plane correction" of hallux abducto valgus deformity (HAV). The authors observed that patients with HAV deformity had a rounded appearance of the lateral edge of the first metatarsal on a dorsoplantar radiograph in comparison to healthy (non-HAV) control patients.
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An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Leicester and other institutions has played a pivotal role in research investigating a possible link between air pollution and the rise in Type 2 diabetes. The exposure to air pollution, the number of cases of Type 2 diabetes and the impact of demographic and lifestyle factors were all considered.
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Modern Medicine
Although payment for prolonged services went up, the bad news is that these services are also on the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) Work Plan for 2017, an annual report that summarizes the OIG's new and ongoing reviews and activities to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse related to various Department of Health and Human Services programs and operations. In the document, the OIG states that prolonged services are considered "rare and unusual."
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Healio
Investigators of this study found patients who underwent unicompartamental knee arthroplasty compared with patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty had higher Forgotten Joint Score, High Flexion Knee Score and satisfaction rate which demonstrated unicompartamental knee arthroplasty yielded better function and satisfaction and there was a need for less knee awareness.
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Medical Daily
While old is subjective, a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE says that a new standard of aging means that 70 is really the new 60. According to the paper, aging should reflect how long people in your country are likely to live rather than actual age by birth year.
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Becker's Spine Review
Even though reimbursement rates are declining across the board, the demand for orthopedic procedures is growing. By 2025, the number of Americans older than 65 will likely more than double, said Surgical Directions President Jeff Peters, and so the need for inpatient and outpatient orthopedic procedures will grow.
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