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Year: 2010
Full Weight-bearing Rehabilitation has Low Re-rupture Rate for Achilles Tendon Injuries
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…
Second Adaptive Sport Added to Winter X Games
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…
Gain Physician Trust by Improving Presentation Skills
Practitioner’s speaking abilities can help them foster strong relationships with hospitals and other medical facilities.
‘Silent Strokes’ Linked to Kidney Failure in Diabetics
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…
OPAF Welcomes New Member to Board Of Directors
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…
Smoking Cessation May Increase Risk Of Developing Type 2 Diabetes
© 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…
ASA Urges Americans to Fight Back Against Pain
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…
Study Shows How Gene Action May Lead To Diabetes Prevention or Cure
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…
Rare Lower-Body Amputation Effective as Last Resort for Bone Infection
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…