Volume 15 - Issue 4 - April 2002
04/03/2002
Is your practice HIPAA compliant? Indeed, the looming deadlines for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will require careful consideration of the patient privacy protections you have in place at...
Is your practice HIPAA compliant? Indeed, the looming deadlines for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will require careful consideration of the patient privacy protections you have in place at...
Is your practice HIPAA...
04/03/2002
Podiatry Today
04/03/2002
The winds of change have blown through the medical community with a vengeance in the last 25 years. Managed care has turned medicine upside down. Dramatically lower fees and higher overhead expenses have made us work doubly hard just to...
The winds of change have blown through the medical community with a vengeance in the last 25 years. Managed care has turned medicine upside down. Dramatically lower fees and higher overhead expenses have made us work doubly hard just to...
The winds of change have blown...
04/03/2002
Podiatry Today
04/03/2002
Digital contractures are among the most common deformities we see in podiatric practice. McGlamry described three etiologies for hammertoes: flexor stabilization, flexor substitution and extensor substitution.1 While each entity may exist...
Digital contractures are among the most common deformities we see in podiatric practice. McGlamry described three etiologies for hammertoes: flexor stabilization, flexor substitution and extensor substitution.1 While each entity may exist...
Digital contractures are among...
04/03/2002
Podiatry Today
04/03/2002
The last decade has seen a tremendous evolution in the field of advanced wound management, both as a discipline and in regard to the development of wound healing therapies. New dressings, human skin equivalents, and barometric intervention...
The last decade has seen a tremendous evolution in the field of advanced wound management, both as a discipline and in regard to the development of wound healing therapies. New dressings, human skin equivalents, and barometric intervention...
The last decade has seen a...
04/03/2002
Podiatry Today
04/03/2002
In order to treat lower extremity pediatric problems, it is essential to have a sound knowledge of the normal and abnormal development of the child’s lower extremities. As structural and positional developmental changes take place in a...
In order to treat lower extremity pediatric problems, it is essential to have a sound knowledge of the normal and abnormal development of the child’s lower extremities. As structural and positional developmental changes take place in a...
In order to treat lower...
04/03/2002
Podiatry Today
04/03/2002
Which managed care contracts should you sign? Which are truly beneficial for our individual practices? Many of us sign up for every managed care contract out of a sense of fear. There is this notion that if you don’t sign up, someone else...
Which managed care contracts should you sign? Which are truly beneficial for our individual practices? Many of us sign up for every managed care contract out of a sense of fear. There is this notion that if you don’t sign up, someone else...
Which managed care contracts...
04/03/2002
Podiatry Today
Column
Diabetes Watch
04/03/2002
Over 16 million people in the United States have diabetes and this number is growing by the hour. Diabetes is now the fifth leading cause of death in this country.1 By understanding the pathophysiology of diabetes and the environmental...
Over 16 million people in the United States have diabetes and this number is growing by the hour. Diabetes is now the fifth leading cause of death in this country.1 By understanding the pathophysiology of diabetes and the environmental...
Over 16 million people in the...
04/03/2002
Podiatry Today
Forum
04/03/2002
The lifeblood of a quality podiatry practice is a steady and diverse physician referral base. No podiatrist would argue that point. However, there is a flipside to the axiom that all referrals are a good thing. I’m thinking about the...
The lifeblood of a quality podiatry practice is a steady and diverse physician referral base. No podiatrist would argue that point. However, there is a flipside to the axiom that all referrals are a good thing. I’m thinking about the...
The lifeblood of a quality...
04/03/2002
Podiatry Today
Orthotics Q&A
04/03/2002
Muscle strength testing is not always part of a standard podiatric biomechanical evaluation. Unfortunately, muscular weakness can often influence function and, if undetected, can lead to chronic pain in the joints which the weakened muscles...
Muscle strength testing is not always part of a standard podiatric biomechanical evaluation. Unfortunately, muscular weakness can often influence function and, if undetected, can lead to chronic pain in the joints which the weakened muscles...
Muscle strength testing is not...
04/03/2002
Podiatry Today
Sports Medicine
04/03/2002
Foot blisters are among the most common injuries for athletes. According to research from the Scholl, over 5.2 million people suffer blisters every year. In a study of lower extremity injuries that occurred at the New York City Marathon, the...
Foot blisters are among the most common injuries for athletes. According to research from the Scholl, over 5.2 million people suffer blisters every year. In a study of lower extremity injuries that occurred at the New York City Marathon, the...
Foot blisters are among the most...
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