Month: October 2010

Documentation of medical necessity is essential in providing the patient with the best chance of approval from an insurance company, according to Conal Doyle, Esq and presenter at the 2010 AOPA National Assembly in Orlando, Fla. “The more detailed and…

Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson underwent an amputationjust 8 days before his death.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Lateral column lengthening for flatfoot deformity correction can be used safely, albeit with a risk of postsurgical plantar lateral discomfort. However, the use of intraoperative trial wedges may decrease that complication, according to investigators from New…

Make time for marketing to keep the business healthy and running
smoothly.

Post-mastectomy fitters should understand that the needs of their
patients vary based not only on their medical situations but on their
personalities.

Health care professionals address P&O needs, rebuild and focus on
the future.

Gait analysis is a necessary and important part of the overall lower limb patient evaluation. If done properly, gait analysis can reveal nuances of patient ambulation otherwise unseen to the naked eye, according to Seamus Kennedy, CPed, owner of Hersco…

Material Safety Data Sheets should include detailed product information
of hazardous chemicals from air fresheners to acetones.

Throughout the course of his career, Kenneth D. Miller, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Yale University, has watched the evolution of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. He remembers a time when many women received diagnoses of advanced stages of…

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a pressure-sensitive electronic material from semiconductor nanowires that could potentially be applied to robotic or prosthetic hands, according to Kuniharu Takei, post-doctoral fellow in electrical engineering and computer sciences.    …