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ACFAOM
Spark! 2016 will take place this weekend, November 5th, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton.
Spark!2016 has been approved for up to 8.5 CECHs, and has been 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.
The venue is conveniently located across the street from both the Alexandria Metro station and the Alexandria Amtrak station, and is only two D.C. Metro stops from Washington Reagan National Airport.
View the full schedule and faculty line-up. For more information, visit the SPARK! 2016 website.
There are still a few spots left, so register now to reserve your place: register online, download and print/fax the paper form or call the ACFAOM Meeting Registrar at (301) 718-6525.
Podiatry Today
These expert panelists discuss rearfoot posting for custom orthoses, forefoot posting for varus deviations and which measurements are most effective during a biomechanical exam.
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News-Medical.net
Stroke and spinal cord injury patients often require gait rehabilitation to regain the ability to walk or to help strengthen their muscles. Wearable "robot-assisted training" is quickly emerging as a method that helps improve this rehab process.
In a major advance, researchers from Beihang University in China and Aalborg University in Denmark have designed a lower-limb robot exoskeleton — a wearable robot — that features natural knee movement to greatly improve patients' comfort and willingness to wear it for gait rehab.
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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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Foot & Ankle International
The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of a series of patients with Charcot neuroarthropathy (CN) who were evaluated in a tertiary care setting. We hypothesized that those patients with CN who presented with a Charcot-related foot wound would have lower rates of successful limb salvage than patients who presented without a wound.
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CBS News
Consumers in sporting goods stores today are faced with seemingly countless choices of footwear. But are any of those innovations really helping you run longer or jump higher? And are those expensive sneakers any better?
At the Portland, Oregon, headquarters of sportswear maker Adidas, footwear developers are using motion capture technology to design their latest shoes.
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Podiatry Today
Although clinicians may assume plantar fasciopathy is always the cause of heel pain, the heel pain may be due to multiple etiologies. Citing the diagnostic advantages of ultrasonography, peripheral nerve blocks and neurosensory testing, this author says one can provide more tailored treatment for patients.
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Medical News Today
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is an inherited disorder that leads to a gradual loss of motor neurons and, eventually, paralysis. The condition is caused by genetic mutations that disrupts cells' energy factories, called mitochondria. No drugs are available to slow or stop the progression of the disease, which affects nearly 3 million people worldwide.
However, in research slated for fast-track advance online publication in Nature, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Stanford University report that they have designed small compounds that have the potential to correct the mitochondrial dysfunction that leads to Charcot-Marie-Tooth and other conditions involving mitochondria.
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Physicians Practice
You know your medical practice inside and out. In fact, it is familiar and comfortable — kind of like wearing an old shoe. The shoe may be comfortable, but it is also old and worn. Now, relate this to your patients. To the discerning eye your practice may be perceived as old, worn, and out of date. Is that how patients see your practice?
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Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery
Onychomycosis is the most common nail disease seen in podiatric practice. Effective long-term management remains problematic. We need to treat onychomycosis effectively to prevent its progression into a severe, debilitating, and painful condition, and to manage recurrence. With new agents now available and greater discussion on management strategies, this article reviews the appropriate evaluation of the disease, treatment options, and optimal patient outcomes.
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