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Professors David Armstrong and Charles Liu at first seemed to be an unlikely pair.
But the podiatric surgeon and neurosurgeon clicked on a personal level and promptly realized they had a lot to offer each other as Keck School of Medicine of USC collaborators.
Both were already studying how much information a person takes in through the nerves of the feet, how to preserve, repair or replace that information system and how nerve damage can affect a patient's mobility.
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Podiatry Today
Using several case studies, these authors discuss guidelines on perioperative anticoagulation and share insights from their protocol approach for foot and ankle surgery patients who are on long-term warfarin therapy.
For patients on long-term anticoagulation for past venous thromboembolism, atrial fibrillation or mechanical heart valves, physicians have historically bridged these patients with low molecular weight heparin during the period of warfarin interruption for elective surgery.
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Journal of Foot and Ankle Research
The purpose of this study was to determine characteristics of footwear worn by people with systematic lupus erythematosus.
Twenty-two people with SLE and twenty matched healthy controls participated in a cross-sectional study. Objective assessments of footwear included: fit, style, structure, motion control, cushioning and wear. Footwear was classified as poor, average or good based on a standardized tool. Participants completed 100mm visual analogue scales for foot pain and footwear comfort and suitability.
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Lower Extremity Review
Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are known for their life-threatening complications — in particular, blindness from retinopathy, kidney failure, and peripheral neuropathy. For patients with diabetes and foot pathology, amputation is a significant worry. A recent study in Foot & Ankle Specialist sought to understand just how much this population fears lower-extremity amputation.
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ScienceDaily
Researchers show that children and adolescents who spend most of their time barefoot develop motor skills differently from those who habitually wear shoes. Published in Frontiers in Pediatrics, this is the first study to assess the relevance of growing up shod versus barefoot on jumping, balancing and sprinting motor performance during different stages of childhood and adolescence. Results suggest that regular physical activity without shoes may improve children's and adolescents' balancing and jumping skills.
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The New York Times
The two bridesmaids — sisters of the bride — walked arm in arm past the seated guests. The older, 35, held tight to the arm of the younger, using that single support to replace the crutches on which she had come to depend. Proud but exhausted by her efforts, the older sister spent much of the rest of the celebration in a wheelchair.
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Reuters
Burned-out doctors are more likely to make major medical errors, regardless of workplace safety measures, new research shows.
“Just trying to fix the setting of health care environments in order to prevent errors is not sufficient. We also need to address the actual underlying human factors that contribute to errors, specifically looking at physician burnout,” Dr. Daniel Tawfik of Stanford University School of Medicine in California, the study’s lead author, told Reuters Health in a phone interview.
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Journal of Foot and Ankle Research
Foot problems in people with rheumatoid arthritis are highly prevalent and have a substantial impact on quality of life. Healthcare professionals from various professions can be involved in the management of these foot problems. There is currently no consensus on optimal management. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to develop multidisciplinary recommendations for the management of foot problems in people with RA in the Netherlands.
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Orthopedics Today
Similar rates of new, persistent opioid use were seen between patients who underwent surgical fixation of ankle fractures and patients who underwent closed treatment of a fibula fracture, according to a presenter at the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Annual Meeting.
“There are roughly 400,000 ankle fractures per year. With the rates of new, persistent opioid use in our study, this corresponds to about 30,000 new, persistent users every year in United States,” Timothy Gossett, M.D., said during his presentation.
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Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma
The purpose of this study was to assess clinical and hospital quality outcomes of patients receiving the previously reported Reduced Effective Dose Using Computed Tomography In Orthopaedic Injury (REDUCTION) imaging protocol.
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