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Newsletter 22 March 2010 | ||
| Latest Research | Latest Discussions | Latest Reviews |
Lower Extremity Muscle Activation During Baseball Pitching (Strength Cond Res.) Comparison of post amputation outcome in patients with type 2 diabetes from specialized foot care centres in three developing countries (Diabetes Res Clin Pract.) Topical silver for preventing wound infection. (Cochrane Database Syst Rev.) Venous aneurysm of the dorsal venous arch: a case with an unusual etiology. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc.) Anatomical and biomechanical assessments of medial tibial stress syndrome. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc. ) Plantar shear stress distribution in athletic individuals with frictional foot blisters. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc.) Mode of insertion of the abductor hallucis muscle in human feet and its arterial supply. (Folia Morphol (Warsz).) The effect of 3 foot pads on plantar pressure of pes planus foot type. (J Sport Rehabil. ) |
The best way to deal with inappropriate patient behavior Tell them that you have syphilis. Sigh, again... Doctors and Dentists Accused of Medicare Rip-Off DOCTORS and dentists are rorting a lucrative scheme that has bled more than $2 billion from the nation's struggling health system. Reliability of masking in pressure measurement As reliability of masking in plantar pressure measurement analysis seems to be not very good.... I share your frustration with the whole barefoot running issue, especially the medical professionals who are promoting "barefoot running shoes" and "minimalist shoes" and making claims through their "research" to help them sell shoe designs that they have a financial interest in. Leg length discrepency how do you measure clincally? I'm hopefully going to investigate the clinical measures used by different professions to establish whether a patient has a leg length discrepency. How accurate are these measures? How valid the foot posture index is to use and maybe the pro's and con's of it?
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Pocket Podiatry: Functional Anatomy gives you all the essentials of examination and diagnosis in a convenient, user-friendly format. Purchase from: Much of the book is taken up giving, an albeit excellent, description of musculoskeletal and biomechanical concepts. |
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Night-time foot pain in children Recovering after surgery for a severe first metatarsal fracture Perfect round lumps on sole of foot Three great toe fusions-new pain |
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