Month: July 2014

Establishing standardized programs for at-risk patients could help reduce overall costs.

Targeting the dorsal root ganglia with local anesthetic may suppress phantom limb pain among amputees, according to results of a recently published study. “Our working hypothesis was that in amputees the impulses felt by a conscious brain as pain in…

Compared with military service members with lower extremity amputations, upper extremity amputees have different characteristics and debilitating features that make them far less likely to return to duty, according to a study published in Injury. These differences are important for…

Kristy Tabers, CFts, is glad she made the switch from teeth to feet. Or rather, orthodontics to orthopedic shoes. “I worked in an orthodontist’s office for 12 years,” said Tabers, the ABC-certified staff therapeutic shoe fitter at Stone-Lang Co. in…

Prosthetists who had interactive training in the Timed Up and Go and Amputee Mobility Predictor were more confident in administering the performance-based measures to amputees, according to study results. Recently, CMS has required providers of physical, occupational and speech-language therapies…

Wounded warriors and amputees take the field to expand their mission.

Image: © Shutterstock A couple months ago, I wrote a column about telling your story. I had read a story about a female winemaker and her vineyard that motivated me to write the column. I read it. I like reading.…

In November 2012, John Natale, MD, of Chicago, a cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon, went to federal prison on charges related to the care of Medicare patients who had aortic aneurysms. The federal court of appeals in Chicago rejected his appeal…