Volume 16 - Issue 3 - March 2003
Column
Clinical Solutions in Practice
04/03/2003
By Gina DiGironimo, Production Editor
By Gina DiGironimo, Production Editor...
When diabetic patients have lower extremity injuries, they may have trouble weightbearing and getting around can prove difficult. Not only do you want to promote healing, you also want to enhance patient mobility. You may recommend...
When diabetic patients have lower extremity injuries, they may have trouble weightbearing and getting around can prove difficult. Not only do you want to promote healing, you also want to enhance patient mobility. You may recommend...
When diabetic patients have...
04/03/2003
Podiatry Today
Clinical Solutions in Practice
04/03/2003
By Gina DiGironimo, Production Editor
By Gina DiGironimo, Production Editor...
When diabetic patients have lower extremity injuries, they may have trouble weightbearing and getting around can prove difficult. Not only do you want to promote healing, you also want to enhance patient mobility. You may recommend...
When diabetic patients have lower extremity injuries, they may have trouble weightbearing and getting around can prove difficult. Not only do you want to promote healing, you also want to enhance patient mobility. You may recommend...
When diabetic patients have...
04/03/2003
Podiatry Today
Diagnostic Dilemmas
03/03/2003
Guest Clinical Editor: Tamara Fishman, DPM
Guest Clinical Editor: Tamara Fishman...
A patient’s medical history can provide you with critical information that is necessary to differentiate among the various types of lower extremity ulcerations. Not only are there many different etiologies of lower extremity ulcers, it’s also...
A patient’s medical history can provide you with critical information that is necessary to differentiate among the various types of lower extremity ulcerations. Not only are there many different etiologies of lower extremity ulcers, it’s also...
A patient’s medical history can...
03/03/2003
Podiatry Today
Forum
03/03/2003
My patient was a 40-something, peroxide blonde, personal fitness trainer. It was her first visit and she complained, “You have to do something about my nails. I can’t have this flaw with my job.” Her nails looked nearly normal with only...
My patient was a 40-something, peroxide blonde, personal fitness trainer. It was her first visit and she complained, “You have to do something about my nails. I can’t have this flaw with my job.” Her nails looked nearly normal with only...
My patient was a 40-something,...
03/03/2003
Podiatry Today
Diabetes Watch
03/03/2003
By Richard M. Stillman, MD, FACS
Clinical Editor: John Steinberg, DPM
By Richard M. Stillman, MD, FACS
Clin...
Managing foot wounds in diabetes patients forms much of the core practice of wound care and podiatry. In the United States, the annual cost for the care of diabetic foot wounds exceeds $5 billion.1 It’s been estimated that anywhere from 2.5...
Managing foot wounds in diabetes patients forms much of the core practice of wound care and podiatry. In the United States, the annual cost for the care of diabetic foot wounds exceeds $5 billion.1 It’s been estimated that anywhere from 2.5...
Managing foot wounds in diabetes...
03/03/2003
Podiatry Today
03/03/2003
Moderator: David G. Armstrong, DPM;
Panelists: Andrew Boulton, MD, A. Lee Dellon, MD, Jeffrey Page, DPM and Barry Rosenblum, DPM
Moderator: David G. Armstrong, DPM;
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Painful diabetic neuropathy is perhaps one of the most discussed and hotly debated subjects in podiatry. Emerging research and emerging treatments have fueled the fire even further. With this in mind, David G. Armstrong, DPM, a member of the...
Painful diabetic neuropathy is perhaps one of the most discussed and hotly debated subjects in podiatry. Emerging research and emerging treatments have fueled the fire even further. With this in mind, David G. Armstrong, DPM, a member of the...
Painful diabetic neuropathy is...
03/03/2003
Podiatry Today
03/03/2003
By Richard A. Pollak, DPM, MS
By Richard A. Pollak, DPM, MS
Diabetes mellitus is a major health problem in the United States, afflicting approximately 17 million people, with 1 million new cases diagnosed each year in people 20 and older.1 Patients with diabetes are at increased risk for toenail...
Diabetes mellitus is a major health problem in the United States, afflicting approximately 17 million people, with 1 million new cases diagnosed each year in people 20 and older.1 Patients with diabetes are at increased risk for toenail...
Diabetes mellitus is a major...
03/03/2003
Podiatry Today
03/03/2003
By Eric Espensen, DPM, and Minh Mach, MD
By Eric Espensen, DPM, and Minh Mach,...
The prevalence of diabetes, especially that of type 2 in children, is increasing at an alarming rate worldwide. Although no data currently exists to determine the extent to which type 2 diabetes has emerged among U.S. children and...
The prevalence of diabetes, especially that of type 2 in children, is increasing at an alarming rate worldwide. Although no data currently exists to determine the extent to which type 2 diabetes has emerged among U.S. children and...
The prevalence of diabetes,...
03/03/2003
Podiatry Today
03/03/2003
By Jeff Hall, Editor-in-Chief
By Jeff Hall, Editor-in-Chief
How helpful is therapeutic footwear for patients with diabetes? It has been one of the most hotly debated questions over the last few months, especially in the aftermath of a controversial study that was published last year in the Journal of...
How helpful is therapeutic footwear for patients with diabetes? It has been one of the most hotly debated questions over the last few months, especially in the aftermath of a controversial study that was published last year in the Journal of...
How helpful is therapeutic...
03/03/2003
Podiatry Today
Insights
Q&A
03/03/2003
Clinical Editor: Lawrence Karlock, DPM
Clinical Editor: Lawrence Karlock, DP...
Plastic and reconstructive surgery techniques can be a significant adjunct for podiatric surgeons in managing diabetic foot wounds and tissue loss. With this in mind, the panelists discuss a variety of techniques (including split-thickness...
Plastic and reconstructive surgery techniques can be a significant adjunct for podiatric surgeons in managing diabetic foot wounds and tissue loss. With this in mind, the panelists discuss a variety of techniques (including split-thickness...
Plastic and reconstructive...
03/03/2003
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