Lower Extremity Review
The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association will hold its 95th National Assembly and New England Chapter Combined Meeting September 6-9 in Boston, MA. Practitioners can attend specialty sessions to earn up to 30 continuing education credits and view the...
Warsaw, IN-based Zimmer has developed Arthritis 411, an iPad application designed to help individuals with knee and hip osteoarthritis learn more about their condition and treatment options. The app offers a library of simple animations and videos as well as...
Boise, ID-based Spider Tech will work with Canadian digital education development company Collarborans to offer educational courses for physical therapists interested in learning more about the company's precut, apply-by-the-numbers kinesiology tape. Toronto-based...
Edward Glaser, DPM, of Lyles, TN-based Sole Supports has partnered with Charles C. Southerland, DPM, professor in the School of Podiatric Medicine at Barry University in Miami, FL, to support the Yucatan Crippled Children’s Project, the medical mission Southerland...
Education about weight loss—including why it’s important and how to achieve it—should be “front and center” of any clinical encounter involving patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA), said a researcher who recently published findings on the effects of weight change over time on OA-related pain and functional limitations.
A study e-published in April by the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine suggests hatha yoga is superior to therapeutic exercises in reducing osteoarthritis-related walking pain. Investigators from Ebnezar Orthopedic Center in Bangalore, India, randomized 250 outpatients with radiographic knee OA…
Medial cartilage damage, not lateral damage, is the more prevalent pattern of cartilage morphology in patellofemoral knee osteoarthritis in all but the most severely involved knees, according to research from Boston University School of Medicine.
Researchers in Baltimore reported that patients who have undergone total hip arthroplasty may experience greater inconvenience than other passengers when going through airport security.
Research from the University of Hong Kong provides further evidence that delaying anterior cruciate ligament surgery increases the risk of meniscal injury and articular cartilage lesions, both of which are associated with increased long-term risk of knee osteoarthritis. Investigators analyzed…
Overweight and obese patients with end-stage ankle arthritis may think that having surgery will inspire them to lose weight, but research from the University of British Columbia suggests that in reality this doesn’t happen. Investigators retrospectively assessed 145 patients who…
Backward running involves lower patellofemoral joint compression forces than forward running and is a viable strategy for rehabilitation of patellofemoral pain syndrome in runners, allowing them to continue exercise without increasing these forces, according to UK research e-published in April in the Journal of Biomechanics.
A retrospective analysis e-published in April in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research found physical examination is superior to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for diagnosis of acute Achilles tendon ruptures. Investigators at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia compared 66 patients…
Interactions between gender and footwear type affect landing mechanics in soccer players, according to research e-published in April in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. Investigators at Duke University in Durham, NC, conducted motion analysis on 28…
When I was in journalism school in Los Angeles, securing a spot in the reporting class taught by Pulitzer Prize-winning LA Times writer George Ramos was a coup. It was also terrifying.
Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor
Night splinting for plantar fasciitis gets the lion’s share of attention, but lower extremity practitioners are also seeing positive results with night use of orthoses for conditions ranging from cerebral palsy to AIDS.
By Larry Hand
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