Month: February 2010

A prospective study of 80 consecutive patients with Achilles tendon ruptures treated in a functional, early weight-bearing brace found a low re-rupture rate in both surgical and nonsurgical cohorts. “Our case series demonstrates a low re-rupture rate with early functional…

This year’s ESPN Winter X Games 14 in Aspen, Colo. featured two adaptive sports, bringing the total number of competitions for disabled athletes at both the Winter and Summer X Games to three. In the first-ever Adaptive SnoCross event, professional…

Practitioner’s speaking abilities can help them foster strong relationships with hospitals and other medical facilities.

In patients with type 2 diabetes, silent cerebral infarction (SCI) — small areas of brain damage caused by injury to small blood vessels — signals an increased risk of progressive kidney disease and kidney failure, according to a study appearing…

  Molly Cooper Molly Cooper, CPO, LPO joins the OPAF board of directors. Cooper is the director of clinical and technical services for SPS in Alpharetta, Ga. and is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Prosthetics and…

  © 2010 iStockphoto.com/Janusz Kwasny Cigarette smoking is a well-known risk factor for type 2 diabetes, but new research from Johns Hopkins suggests that quitting the habit may raise diabetes risk in the short term. The researchers suspect the elevated…

Whether the result of injury, illness or a chronic condition, 70 million Americans experience pain annually. The individual pain sufferer may experience a diminished quality of life, lack of mobility and added stress. For the country as a whole, pain…

A gene commonly studied by cancer researchers has been linked to the metabolic inflammation that leads to type 1 diabetes. Understanding how the gene works means scientists may be closer to finding ways to prevent or cure diabetes, according to…

  Jeffrey Janis According to a landmark case review by Jeffrey E. Janis, MD, associate professor and program director in the department of plastic surgery at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and several of his colleagues, hemicorporectomy, or translumbar…

The Amputee Coalition of America (ACA) is now accepting applications for the second annual Christina Skoski, MD Scholarship until March 15. The fund will once again award a one-time, $1,000 scholarship to a student with limb loss who has a…