Lower Extremity Review
As true as it is in advertising, it may be even more true in healthcare. As evidence, this issue features not one but two articles on the ongoing battle to improve patient compliance—a battle practitioners have been fighting since even before the halcyon days of the three martini lunch. By Jordana Bieze Foster
Athletes know about the importance of keeping your head in the game. Just ask Lindsey Jacobellis. Or Chris Webber. But a growing body of research suggests that poor decision making isn’t the only way the brain can sabotage an athlete’s performance. Jordana Bieze Foster, editor
At Lower Extremity Review, we know there are literally thousands of products out there that can help you improve your clinical outcomes. But the existence of all those products doesn’t really do you or your patients much good if you don’t know where to find them.
By, Jordana Bieze Foster, editor
I have a confession to make: I’m one of those women. The kind of woman who is the subject of this month’s cover story on high heels.
By, Jordana Bieze Foster, editor
It isn’t often discussed in the medical literature or in scientific sessions, nor is it mentioned in this month’s cover story on bracing and athletic performance. But the extent to which an athlete can benefit from orthotic management depends at least in part on his or her skill level.
by Jordana Bieze Foster
So now we know more about Oscar Pistorius’ body than any of us does about our own. Courtesy of the Journal of Applied Physiology and a dream team of scientists, we know his metabolic cost of running, his sprinting endurance, his swing times, his stance-average vertical ground reaction forces. We know how each of those variables stacks up against those of elite non-amputee runners.
By Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor
Obesity is a big problem, one that seems to just keep getting bigger.
by Jordana Bieze Foster
You’re launching a new magazine? Now? In this economy? Don’t you know that newspapers and magazines are downsizing and folding left and right? Good questions, all. But I can assure you, we’re not living in a bubble. We personally know far too many people, in publishing and in other markets, who have been adversely affected by the recession.
by Jordana Bieze Foster
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