Lower Extremity Review
With summer upon us, I thought it a good time to see just how much water I should be drinking or encouraging my friends and readers to drink. So I asked Dr. Google. Yes, yes, I know what you’re thinking. But this was an exercise in perhaps the original form of data verification—get 1 answer and…
By Janice T. Radak, Editor
As I stuffed the old water aerobic shoes into the recycle bag, I felt terrible pangs of sadness, like losing a friend who had endured a long journey with me. I’d been through a lot in those shoes. I lost 40 pounds in those shoes.
By Janice T. Radak, Editor
Happy 13th birthday Lower Extremity Review! Like any growing teenager, we’ve been through some changes, but there are plenty more still to come! Just before the pandemic started, we began to identify and understand what LER’s users wanted to learn more about so we could better focus our coverage.
By Janice T. Radak, Editor
Christian was 2 years old when The FOOT Foundation met him 6 years ago. Born without legs in rural Guatemala, our humanitarian team fitted him with his first artificial limbs. We have seen him several times since, upgrading his bilateral above knee prostheses as he grows.
By Dino Scanio, MPH, CO, LO
Some years it’s hard to say good-bye…and then there’s 2020. We’re sure we’re not the only ones happy to see it in the rearview mirror. But to just drive away is to ignore the words of Socrates, who rightfully said…
By Janice T. Radak, Editor, and Rich Dubin, Publisher
The realm of orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) is based on gaining leverage for patients and eking out power when strength is not plentiful. A physical therapist will work with a patient over time to gain power through strengthening exercises where the surgeon may be focused on securing a torn ligament or fracture in hours.
By Thomas J. Cutler, CPO, FAAOP
The pandemic caused by COVID-19 (brought on by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, SARS-COV-2), has now touched every continent, save Antartica. The World Health Organization (WHO) is now estimating the global death toll will reach 400,000 by mid-June, with no end in sight.
We are living in an exceptional time. Like you, we’re sheltering in our homes and donning face masks when we venture out. We’re happy to play our part to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus that leads to COVID-19, but we’ll sure be happier when things return to normal…. But the reality is that there will be a new normal, and we can’t quite see what that looks like just yet.
By Rich Dubin, Publisher, and Janice T. Radak, Editor, LER
We all strive for healthy and happy lives, and many of us are fortunate to reach these goals. For these people, living in the physical world is not a challenge but a pleasure. The world does not overwhelm them; rather, it interacts and plays with them in enjoyable ways. To quote Walt Whitman, we “swim with the swimmers, wrestle with the…
By Paul DeVita, PhD
As a podiatrist, athlete, coach, and independent running shoe proprietor, I have always had an interest in biomechanics and the impact on lower extremity overuse injuries and conditions. Perhaps the most well-known biomechanical term, pronation, is also the most misunderstood. In his recent article, Benno Nigg et al.
By Mark Mendeszoon, DPM
As we enter a new year AND a new decade, it’s important to affirm our foundation and set our sights on new directions. One of LER’s key strengths is the breadth of our multi-disciplinary highly collaborative audience—and we don’t intend to change that.
By Rich Dubin, Publisher
As another year draws to a close, the natural inclination is to look ahead and plan for the future. But the beauty of the year’s end also gives us the chance to look back and appreciate the path we have travelled, the lessons we have learned, and the many, many people and organizations who have helped us on that journey.
By Janice T. Radak, Editor, and Rich Dubin, Publisher
In his June anniversary issue commentary, Proper Diabetes Care Can Reduce Rising Lower Extremity Amputation Rates (LER July 2019), Mark Hinkes, DPM, responded to the disheartening news that lower extremity amputations are increasing in the United States with a call to action: “I believe that the time has come for the standard of…
By Lynn Soban, PhD, MPH, RN
Whenever I talk about foot pressure-mapping technology during my courses or keynote lectures at international conferences, I am always surprised by the volume of misunderstanding that surrounds force and pressure measurements and questions about differences between them.
By Antonio Robustelli, MSc, CSCS
Currently, the Veterans’ Administration (VA) serves more than 90,000 Veterans who have lost limbs and performs more than 12,000 amputation surgeries annually. Additionally, although the number of Veterans with significant, chronic limb impairment is unclear, it is unquestionably large.
By Eve Lee, MBA, CAE, Executive Director, American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association
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