Volume 25 - Issue 3 - March 2012
Feature
Case Study
02/28/2012
This author details the case of a 71-year-old patient who had reperfusion procedures for occlusions at the dorsalis pedis and posterior tibial arteries, and subsequently had transmetatarsal and below-knee amputations.
This author details the case of a 71-year-old patient who had reperfusion procedures for occlusions at the dorsalis pedis and posterior tibial arteries, and subsequently had transmetatarsal and below-knee amputations.
This author details the case of...
02/28/2012
Podiatry Today
Online Exclusive
02/22/2012
How can social networking market your practice to the public? What should you and your staff post, and what should you avoid posting? In addition to answering these questions, a few experts offer insights on how sites such as Facebook,...
How can social networking market your practice to the public? What should you and your staff post, and what should you avoid posting? In addition to answering these questions, a few experts offer insights on how sites such as Facebook,...
How can social networking...
02/22/2012
Podiatry Today
02/22/2012
Ensuring adequate vascularity can be critical to facilitating the healing of diabetic foot ulcerations. Accordingly, these authors discuss current mainstay approaches in vascular surgery as well as emerging techniques that could make a...
Ensuring adequate vascularity can be critical to facilitating the healing of diabetic foot ulcerations. Accordingly, these authors discuss current mainstay approaches in vascular surgery as well as emerging techniques that could make a...
Ensuring adequate vascularity...
02/22/2012
Podiatry Today
Column
Forum
02/22/2012
While attending a highly renowned podiatric surgical skills conference recently, I had the opportunity to experience numerous hours of “hands-on” learning. Although performing various surgical procedures on fresh cadaver limbs was very...
While attending a highly renowned podiatric surgical skills conference recently, I had the opportunity to experience numerous hours of “hands-on” learning. Although performing various surgical procedures on fresh cadaver limbs was very...
While attending a highly...
02/22/2012
Podiatry Today
Industry News
02/22/2012
A New Option For Treating Onychomycosis
Patients with onychomycosis may find an easy to use treatment kit beneficial for their condition.
PediPirox-4 Nail Kit contains treatments for the comprehensive management of mild to moderate...
A New Option For Treating Onychomycosis
Patients with onychomycosis may find an easy to use treatment kit beneficial for their condition.
PediPirox-4 Nail Kit contains treatments for the comprehensive management of mild to moderate...
A New Option For Treating...
02/22/2012
Podiatry Today
Treatment Dilemmas
02/22/2012
Lateral column pain is a fairly common occurrence after an injury such as a sprained ankle or twisting injury to the foot. Accordingly, let us consider a case study of a healthy 34-year-old female, who twisted her foot on a sidewalk curb...
Lateral column pain is a fairly common occurrence after an injury such as a sprained ankle or twisting injury to the foot. Accordingly, let us consider a case study of a healthy 34-year-old female, who twisted her foot on a sidewalk curb...
Lateral column pain is a fairly...
02/22/2012
Podiatry Today
Surgical Pearls
02/22/2012
Hallux limitus is generally responsive to conservative care consisting of anything from changing foot gear, changing activity and exercises to orthoses, injections, anti-inflammatory medication and physical therapy.1 When these things fail,...
Hallux limitus is generally responsive to conservative care consisting of anything from changing foot gear, changing activity and exercises to orthoses, injections, anti-inflammatory medication and physical therapy.1 When these things fail,...
Hallux limitus is generally...
02/22/2012
Podiatry Today
Diabetes Watch
02/22/2012
Any podiatric medical student could tell you that the “gold standard” for the diagnosis of osteomyelitis is bone biopsy. This is obviously an important diagnosis to reach with a high degree of confidence. From a clinical standpoint, we...
Any podiatric medical student could tell you that the “gold standard” for the diagnosis of osteomyelitis is bone biopsy. This is obviously an important diagnosis to reach with a high degree of confidence. From a clinical standpoint, we...
Any podiatric medical student...
02/22/2012
Podiatry Today
News and Trends
02/22/2012
The prevalence of diabetes has increased in recent years and is projected to keep rising. However, a recent study in Diabetes Care may offer a silver lining: Non-traumatic lower extremity amputation rates have fallen in patients with...
The prevalence of diabetes has increased in recent years and is projected to keep rising. However, a recent study in Diabetes Care may offer a silver lining: Non-traumatic lower extremity amputation rates have fallen in patients with...
The prevalence of diabetes has...
02/22/2012
Podiatry Today
Insights
Q&A
02/22/2012
Given the delicate nature of the wound environment, one must be vigilant in reducing the incidence of perioperative infection. Accordingly, these expert panelists discuss skin preparation before surgery, the use of prophylactic antibiotics,...
Given the delicate nature of the wound environment, one must be vigilant in reducing the incidence of perioperative infection. Accordingly, these expert panelists discuss skin preparation before surgery, the use of prophylactic antibiotics,...
Given the delicate nature of...
02/22/2012
Podiatry Today