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As 2017 comes to a close, ACFAOM wishes its members, educational partners and all members of our profession a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the profession, we plan to provide the readers of the ACFAOM Foot & Ankle Weekly a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 9.
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Podiatry Today
From Aug. 22:
Given the potential risk of diabetic foot ulcers becoming infected, it is imperative to have a strong understanding of the current antibiotic options. These authors review 10 common antibiotics, discussing their efficacy, range of coverage and dosing.
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Podiatry Management
From March 21: Paul Scherer, DPM writes:
Clinicians can consider the differential diagnoses before making a pair of orthotics for plantar fasciitis or after the orthotic fails
to relieve the symptoms. Before is
always better and more efficient, but
everyone must accept the premise
that there are zebras when treating
this condition.
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Podiatry Management
From Jan. 10: In 2017, we finally revised the "correction, hallux valgus" family of code section, adding some codes, getting rid of some codes, and overall improving coding descriptions. Since we were at it, we also
added, for the first time anywhere in the world, new bunion and bunionette (baby bunion) ICD-10-CM codes.
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Medical Xpress
From Aug. 1:
For patients undergoing surgery to repair a bunion deformity of the foot, non-weight-bearing X-rays taken immediately after surgery can provide a good estimate of the risk that the bunion will return over time, reports a study in the current issue of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.
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Podiatry Management
From Oct. 3:
The field of podiatry has
changed greatly in the
past forty years. Great podiatric
pioneers like Louis
T. Bogy, Lowell Weil, Sr.,
Guido LaPorta, and E. Dalton McGlamry
have guided the specialty of
podiatry into mainstream medicine.
The young podiatrist of today
will (thankfully) never experience
how difficult the pathway was for
podiatrists of the past to obtain the
hospital privileges that we now take
for granted.
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Podiatry Management
From Feb. 7:
With the Affordable
Care Act, the rigors of MACRA, the
new Merit Incentive Payment System, and the Alternative Payment Models, podiatrists are going to have to identify how practice will change in the next few years. With the escalating costs that have burdened Medicare since its inception, CMS has instituted a Medicare Fraud Strike Force to recoup all the monies that were considered paid to providers who allegedly committed fraud.
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Podiatry Management
From Feb. 14:
You planned to become a doctor, and you did it. Your application to podiatric medical school
was accepted and you endured four years of classwork and grueling rotations. Then you completed a
residency, which required more of your
time, effort and money. It wasn't easy, but you accomplished your goals — and you have the student loan debt to prove it. Then you opened your own
practice and your parents couldn't have
been more proud.
But no one plans, when filling
out their medical school application,
to use their degree to go to jail.
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Podiatry Management
From Jan. 17:
No discussion of Oxycontin (oxycodone) and
heroin can be complete without comparing their
molecular structures, which are nearly identical. This is not usually discussed when doctors talk about narcotic analgesics. But drug-addicted people are very much aware of their similarities. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are virtually interchangeable. Any physician prescribing Oxycontin needs to be aware of this.
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Lower Extremity Review
From Aug. 8:
Aging and a number of medical conditions can lead to atrophy of the fat pads under the heel and forefoot, which often causes considerable pain. Cushioned footwear and orthoses are mainstays of treatment, but research also supports the use of fat grafting in recalcitrant cases.
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Podiatry Today
From Jan. 31:
David G. Armstrong DPM M.D. Ph.D. writes:
I was trained and I still very much believe that we have the ability to surgically remove osteomyelitis in the foot and ankle and that is often the best treatment. This is so often the case because the 'thing' that caused the osteomyelitis, namely a contiguous diabetic foot ulcer, was caused by excessive stress over that area, ostensibly from a foot deformity.
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