For more than 50 years the custom foot orthotic industry has pretty much stayed the same. Of course, change has occurred, such as the introduction and widespread adoption of digital casting and CAD/CAM production vs hand-poured plaster.
Lower Extremity Review
Strengthening the Interprofessional Approach to Fall Prevention
Health care professionals who work with older adults are all too familiar with the devastating sequelae of falls, including injury and fear of falling that can lead to activity restriction and further risk of falls. Most worrisome is that death rates from falls have doubled between 2000 and 2014, which highlights the importance of sustaining existing fall prevention efforts, and of building new ones.
Out on a limb: Low tech, high value
The use of advanced technologies to provide feedback to patients during rehabilitation is all the rage in lower extremity healthcare. But, as exciting as these new modalities can be, it’s important to remember that low-tech feedback strategies can make hi-tech data even more clinically useful.
Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor
Out on a limb: Strength of purpose
Everyone has days when we just go through the motions—at our jobs, in social situations, at the gym—and tell ourselves it isn’t a big deal. But as clinicians you know that when patients just go through the motions of complying with prescribed treatments, their…
By Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor
Out on a limb: Of opioids and outcomes
Recent efforts to reduce utilization of opioid pain medications for lower extremity joint injuries and surgical rehabilitation have mostly focused on reducing the risk of addiction. But there’s another important reason to be concerned about the use of opioids in these patients—and other popular pain medications as well.
By Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor
Out on a Limb: Seeking a safer preseason
Anyone watching the injuries accumulate during the most recent National Football League (NFL) preseason might be encouraged by the league’s plans to shorten the preseason from four weeks to three. But the medical literature suggests a much better way to reduce the incidence of preseason injuries.
Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor
Out on a limb: Back to the evidence
The farther you go up the kinetic chain, the more some things about evidence-based medicine stay the same. The spine differs in many ways from most of the lower extremity segments of the kinetic chain. Obvious differences include the shape and function of the bony structures, the complex roles of the adjacent muscles, and how the spine responds to the demands of movement.
By Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor
Out on a limb: Valuable testimony
A person’s testimony doesn’t always agree with objective evidence—that’s why some defense attorneys won’t allow their clients to take the stand during a trial, even in their own defense. Similarly, as most clinicians know, patient-reported outcomes aren’t always consistent with objective measures of function.
By Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor
Out on a limb: Healing arts
Healthcare practitioners and artists wouldn’t seem to have much in common, other than perhaps an appreciation of anatomy. But a new book has made me think the two professions also share an appreciation of people.
By Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor
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