Editor Memo | Lower Extremity Review Magazine - Part 8

Editor Memo

Lower Extremity Review

Out on a limb: Genes vs dreams

Out on a limb: Genes vs dreams

2011, Editor Memo, May

Genetic testing would seem to be just what the doctor ordered for sports injury prevention. But the world of sports is far from ready for genetic testing.

Given the preliminary nature of data presented in April at the IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sports (see special section, page 23), it will be quite a while before testing for a genetic predisposition to Achilles tendinopathy or anterior cruciate ligament injury is ready for prime time.

by Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor

Out on a limb: Image is everything

Out on a limb: Image is everything

2011, April, Editor Memo

Patients have multiple reasons for not complying with a practitioner’s recommendations. Most of them are familiar by now: inconvenience, discomfort, aesthetics, forgetfulness, failure to understand the consequences of not complying.

by Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor

Out on a limb: Up in arms at AAOS

Out on a limb: Up in arms at AAOS

2011, Editor Memo, March

Many of us were surprised by how cold it was in San Diego this past February. But nobody got an icier reception at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons than Alexandra Soroceanu, MD.

by Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor

Out on a limb: Kinder cuts

Out on a limb: Kinder cuts

2011, Editor Memo, February

Surgery, for many patients, is the worst clinical outcome they can imagine, something to be adamantly avoided even if the alternative is a life of pain and disability. And that’s probably not surprising.

By Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor

Out on a limb: Minding the gap

Out on a limb: Minding the gap

2011, Editor Memo, January

Not long ago, I was chatting with the new girls’ volleyball coach at my local area high school, and she mentioned that one of her goals was to focus on injury prevention. Specifically, she planned to emphasize shoulder strengthening. So I asked the obvious follow-up question: What about preventing anterior cruciate ligament injuries?

Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor

Out on a limb: Shop and learn

Out on a limb: Shop and learn

2010, December, Editor Memo

The J. Peterman Company is probably best known as the erstwhile employer of Elaine Benes on “Seinfeld.” But the company and its distinctive catalogs made a lasting impression on me when I first came across them years earlier.

Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor

Out on a limb: Creatures of comfort

Out on a limb: Creatures of comfort

2010, Editor Memo, November

Benno Nigg, PhD, isn’t exactly on the barefoot running bandwagon. Essentially, the internationally lauded foot biomechanist thinks barefoot running is a fashion trend that tends to recur every 25 years or so — like babydoll dresses or skinny ties.

Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor

Out on a Limb: Cold cuts

Out on a Limb: Cold cuts

2010, Editor Memo, October

For centuries, the Greeks set the bar for the rest of the world to follow—in architecture, in literature, in medicine. Now they appear to be setting a new kind of example in health care. But we can only hope the rest of the world knows better than to follow their lead this time around.

By Jordana Bieze Foster

Out on a Limb: Flip-flop Flak

Out on a Limb: Flip-flop Flak

2010, Editor Memo, September

Angelina Jolie and I have so much in common – beauty, fame, fortune. But when it comes to flip-flops, that’s where the similarities end.

By Jordana Bieze Foster

Out on a limb: Just average

Out on a limb: Just average

2010, August, Editor Memo

Lower extremity researchers are realizing what practitioners already know: Sometimes, average just isn’t good enough. Anyone who’s familiar with the college admissions process can tell you about the limitations of averages. Sure, averages – in this case, grade point averages – can be useful as a screening tool, and to get a general sense of a student’s performance.

By Jordana Bieze Foster

Out on a limb: Personality test

Out on a limb: Personality test

2010, Editor Memo, July

Athletes are known for being difficult patients, with psychology often playing as important a role as biomechanics. The objective is to keep an athlete’s personality from getting in the way of proper medical care. But sometimes that’s easier said than done. Just ask the Boston Red Sox.

by Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor

Out on a Limb: Thinking globally

Out on a Limb: Thinking globally

2010, Editor Memo, June

There are a lot of reasons you might not want to leave the country these days. Terrorism. The economy. Language barriers. Maybe you just feel there’s no need – you can have a perfectly good vacation, and even update your professional credentials at the same time, without the hassle of renewing your passport or trying to remember where you put the darned thing.

by Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor

Out on a limb: Weakness in numbers

Out on a limb: Weakness in numbers

2010, Editor Memo, May

Sometimes it’s hard to tell when it’s spring in New England, particularly when there are frost warnings in late April and the local hockey and basketball teams are still playing well into May. But one telltale sign is when the air is abuzz with baseball statistics. By Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor

Out On a Limb: Up from the wreckage

Out On a Limb: Up from the wreckage

2010, April, Editor Memo

Have a bad day at the office? At least you didn’t have to worry about not having any electricity. Or clean water. Most of us take these things for granted. But for some practitioners, in places devastated by war or by natural disaster, they are very real concerns that go hand in hand with lower extremity care. By Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor

Out On a Limb: Pro rated

Out On a Limb: Pro rated

2010, Editor Memo, March

When hearing about how a therapy has helped a professional athlete, it can be difficult to extrapolate those results to your own patient population. Tiger Woods may have lost Gatorade, but he’ll always have platelet rich plasma. By Jordana Bieze Foster

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