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ACFAOM
Spark! 2016 is a one-day seminar from the American College of Foot & Ankle Orthopedics & Medicine, designed to help you learn how to deliver increasingly valuable, life-altering patient care while also finding new ways to make your practice more profitable.
Join ACFAOM on Saturday, November 5, 2016, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton in historic Old Town Alexandria, VA, directly across the river from Washington, DC. Spark! 2016 will inspire and equip you to maximize your non-surgical patient care and profoundly accelerate your practice’s growth. This seminar is supported by an educational partnership grant from OHI and its family of brands. You’ll also learn to see your existing patient population in an entirely new light. SPARK! 2016 has been approved for up to 8.5 CECHs. View the full schedule and faculty line-up. For more information, visit the SPARK! 2016 website. Attendance is limited to 75, so register now to reserve your place.
ACFAOM
Amol Saxena, DPM, and Brian Fullem, DPM, will be the guests on tonight's Meet the Masters audio-conference (at 9 p.m. ET) with host, and former ACFAOM president, Dr. Bret Ribotsky, DPM, FACFAOM. They will share their experiences as DPMs for gold medal athletes and how you can put these lessons into your practices to help patients win their own personal victories. To register for this FREE weekly, and unique, learning experience that will give you additional insights into the profession’s past and future.
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The Washington Post
Melissa Curley Bogner was baffled: Why did her feet feel suddenly hot — in January?
The 41-year-old management analyst for the Navy had grown accustomed to periodic bouts of neuropathy — numbness in her hands and feet — the apparent legacy of a severe allergic reaction to a drug she took in 2000 to treat a gynecological infection.
But this 2015 episode was different. Along with the sensation that her feet felt unusually warm, the skin on the second toe of her right foot looked inflamed. Weeks later, she noticed a small blister.
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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.
Learn why our members say we’re "More Than a Great EHR."
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Podiatry Today
Until recently, there had not been a new product introduced in the wound care arena that had gone through the Food and Drug Administration approval process in several years. The FDA recently announced the approval of the Omnigraft Dermal Regeneration Matrix (Integra LifeSciences) for its new indication in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers in the outpatient clinical setting.
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By Lonny Alfred
 The numbers don't lie. Cases of opioid addiction and overdoses have been on the upward bound in the last decade. Just as alarming, more than half of practicing physicians today display signs of burnout, and those rates don't look to be declining anytime soon. Critics think the reason for the rise in both issues stems from the lack of education in today's medical schools around treating pain in patients and physician well-being. Medical schools are now meeting these issues head on.
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Becker's Hospital Review
Although "a comfortable retirement" remains a universal personal financial goal for physicians, many of them are not as prepared as they'd like to be, according to American Medical Association Insurance's 2016 study on physicians' financial preparedness.
From 2013 to 2016, the percentage of practicing physicians who said they are "ahead of schedule" in their retirement plans nearly doubled — from 6 percent to 11 percent, the study found. However, nearly 40 percent of practicing physicians consider themselves "behind" where they'd like to be in saving for retirement.
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Clinical Research on Foot & Ankle
Whether the surgeon and patient elect to proceed with a TAR or Ankle Arthrodesis, the objectives of the surgery remain grossly identical. The goal of arthrodesis or TAR is to relieve pain and restore a functional, plantigrade limb. Both procedures share the indication of curing painful end stage arthrosis of the ankle, after conservative measures have failed. The advantage of TAR over arthrodesis is that it restores some range of motion of the ankle and that it limits the extent of arthritis which develops in the adjacent joints.
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Medical News Today
The worldwide burden of diabetes-related vision loss is growing alarmingly. Over 2 decades from 1990-2010, the number of people worldwide with diabetes-related blindness or visual impairment rose by an alarming 27 percent and 64 percent, respectively. In 2010, 1 in every 52 people had vision loss and 1 in every 39 people were blind due to diabetic retinopathy — where the retina is damaged by diabetes.
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Podiatry Today
Due to the expertise of podiatric physicians in treating lower extremity wounds, other physicians may refer patients with chronic ulcers to DPMs. Accordingly, this author emphasizes the importance of obtaining previous medical records, relevant keys to the patient history, ascertaining the cause(s) of the wound and pertinent diagnostic testing.
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Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics
After the success of Dr Ponseti's method for the treatment of idiopathic clubfoot deformity, the number of patients who need soft tissue release has decreased, but the use of foot abduction orthosis is crucial for maintaining correction after this method. The lack of adherence to the orthosis regimen is reported to be a major factor for recurrence. Noncompliance with brace may be because of skin ulceration and blistering or irritability of children because of restrictiveness of the leg motion in the brace. The aim of this article is to introduce a new design of Denis Browne brace (accordion Hinge DB brace) and evaluate the results.
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