Lower Extremity Review
Sigvaris announces the launch of its medical-grade compression level Allure product line. The Allure sheer medical compression hosiery line, featuring a diamond-dot pattern, has the look and soft feel of designer fashion hosiery with the health benefits of medical...
PediFix introduces its Pedi-Smart Black Compression Anklet. This medical-grade product provides graduated Grade III (30-40 mm Hg) compression from the metatarsals to the calf, which helps increase venous activity, minimizes swelling, eases pain, and speeds healing,...
BRD Sport is now offering a Plantar Fasciitis Brace to relieve acute arch and heel pain. Three-dimensional knitting offers a four-way stretch, and anatomically contoured silicone pads on the medial and lateral sides give support and intermittent massage to help...
The National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) released a position statement on the management and prevention of ankle sprains on June 27 at its 64th Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposia in Las Vegas. The NATA’s position statement offers best practices supported...
Minneapolis-based Ottobock inked a partnership in late June with PatienTech/Vista Medical, a distributor of pressure sensing technology in Winnipeg, Canada, that gives Ottobock exclusive distribution rights to Vista Medical’s BodiTrak Smart Fabric pressure mapping...
Shoe donations from Chapel Hill, NC-based FootCentric, New Balance, headquartered in Brighton, MA, and Teaneck, NJ-based Aetrex Worldwide enabled an army of volunteer social workers, teachers, physical therapists, physical therapy students, pedorthists, and school...
Athletes’ Performance, which provides performance training and physical therapy to elite and professional athletes at five major facilities around the US, announced in June that it will partner with the Mayo Clinic to advance sports medicine care and research. The...
The Foundation for Physical Therapy launched the public phase of its campaign to establish a center of excellence in health services at its annual gala, held in late June at the American Physical Therapy Association’s (APTA) Conference and Exposition in Salt Lake...
The Adidas Springblade, which will hit store shelves August 1, is designed to increase energy return and propel runners forward with its 16 plastic “blades,” strips of polymer that make up the shoe’s foamless midsole. The blades, which are individually tuned to...
Anatomy of a Figure Skating Injury, published on July 3, addresses the current information gap about causes of injury and strategies for prevention in figure skaters. The book’s author is John Harmata, president of Arena Sports & Consulting Services/ Geppetto’s...
I can’t recall exactly when the bunion on my left foot started causing discomfort, but it was probably when I was about 40. I waited some time to get a referral to a podiatrist, and when I finally saw one, life with two kids and a full-time job stalled my pursuit of treatment for another three and half years.
By Karen Bakar
As we celebrate LER’s fourth anniversary, I feel that I would be remiss if I didn’t take this opportunity to share what I have personally experienced this past year. Last July, my wife decided to go back to school to become a certified health coach. Little did I know then that this would bring profound changes in my life both personally and professionally.
Richard Dubin, Publisher
In journalism, as in much of healthcare, we tend to focus our attention on what is new. But every once in a while we’re reminded that words and ideas published more than a decade ago still have the power to challenge the way we think.
Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor
Military populations experience high rates of disability related to post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA), which does not always originate from combat injury. But military researchers are also uniquely positioned to explore therapeutic options to minimize the effect of PTOA.
By Jessica C. Rivera, MD, Joseph C. Wenke, PhD, James R. Ficke, MD, and Anthony E. Johnson, MD
Variables related to iliotibial band strain appear to be important risk factors for development of iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS) in runners, a finding that is beginning to change the way researchers assess the effectiveness of gait retraining interventions to treat or prevent ITBS.
By Stacey Meardon, PT, PhD, ATC, CSCS, and Ross H. Miller, PhD
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