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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.
SPARK! 2016 will be held Saturday, November 5, 2016, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton in historic Old Town Alexandria, VA, directly across the river from Washington, DC. This conference will inspire and equip you to maximize your non-surgical patient care and profoundly accelerate your practice's growth.
To allow a concentrated focused learning experience — attendance to SPARK! 2016 is limited to the first 75 DPMs who register. First come, first served!
SPARK! 2016 is supported by an educational partnership grant from OHI and its family of brands, and 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.
ACFAOM
Jodi Schoenhaus, DPM, FACFAS will be the featured guest on tonight's Meet the Masters audio-conference (at 9 p.m. ET) with host, and former ACFAOM president, Bret Ribotsky, DPM, FACFAOM. A leading provider in aesthetic medicine focusing deeply on venous disease, Dr. Schoenhaus provides and teaches advance laser vein therapy to treat everything from spider veins and varicose veins to injection and endovascular procedures. 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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Clinical Endocrinology News
When it comes to predicting mortality in diabetes patients, the foot may trump the heart.
Over a 5-year period, patients who had the most severe foot pathology were almost four times more likely to die than those who had a constellation of cardiovascular risk factors. The association with foot pathology stayed strong and, in a multivariate analysis, was the only factor that remained significantly associated with death in the cohort, Dragan Tesic, M.D., said at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
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Journal of Foot and Ankle Research
Ill-fitting shoes have been implicated as a risk factor for falls but research to date has focused on people with arthritis, diabetes and the general older population; little is known about people with neurological conditions. This survey for people with stroke and Parkinson's explored people's choice of indoor and outdoor footwear, foot problems and fall history.
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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 Management
How often do you
think about your
bedside manner?
Are you good at
making patients feel
comfortable? Do they smile despite their pain? Do patients feel
they can speak with you safely? Or is the patient interaction
something to get through so you
can figure out how to physically
treat the patient and move on to
the next one? Are you a technician or a clinician? Do you know
who you are and how you appear to your patients? People are
variably adept at self-understanding, and all of us could use more
personal reflection.
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Endocrine Today
Studying snail venom and pig tissues is leading researchers to new technologies that may someday treat diabetes.
University of Utah researchers are focusing on cone snail venom, which consists of insulin, in order to study it's fast-acting benefits.
"People think it's easy to make drugs,” Helena Safavi, Ph.D., professor of biology at the University of Utah, said in a press release. "But where do you start? You have to have some kind of idea of what a drug should look like, what kind of properties the drug should have, so it’s very difficult to design novel drugs. That's why we use the snail venom system."
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Lower Extremity Review
The results of a retrospective chart review suggest that the use of plasma-mediated bipolar radiofrequency-based arthroscopic microdebridement is associated with notable decreases in self-reported ankle pain in patients who have tried conservative treatments without success.
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Podiatry Today
Saleena Niehaus DPM writes: "As the summer heat continues into September, I am still seeing a large number of patients presenting with soggy and stinky shoes. This dark, moist microenvironment creates the perfect home for harboring bacteria and fungi.
One of type of bacteria that thrives in this setting is Corynebacterium minutissimum. C. minutissimum is a Gram-positive, non-spore forming aerobic or facultatively aerobic bacillus. It is part of the normal skin flora. Given the proper conditions and humidity, these bacteria can multiply within the stratum corneum and lead to a skin infection."
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Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System
Symptoms of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease typically arise in childhood or adolescence with gait difficulty most common. A systematic review was conducted to synthesize, review and characterise gait in pediatric CMT. Health related electronic databases were reviewed with search terms related to CMT and gait. Of 454 articles, ten articles describing seven studies met eligibility criteria; samples ranged from 1-81, included mixed CMT subtypes and had a participant mean age of 13 years. Assessments included a variety of methods to examine only barefoot gait. Heterogeneity of gait patterns was noted. Children and adolescents with CMT walked slower, most likely due to shorter stride length.
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