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The Voice of Podiatrists
Serving Over 15,763 Podiatrists Daily
March 19, 2014 #5,016  Publisher-Barry Block, DPM, JD
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| APMA HOD NEWS | |
APMA Officers and New Board Members Elected
The American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA) held its annual election for officers and trustees during the APMA House of Delegates. The results:
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Dr. Frank Spinosa Delivers Inaugural Address |
Frank A. Spinosa, DPM, Installed as president
Phillip E. Ward, DPM, Elected president-elect
Ira H. Kraus, DPM, Elected treasurer
Seth Rubinstein, DPM, Re-elected to Board of Trustees
Sylvia Virbulis, DPM, Re-elected to Board of Trustees
Brooke Bisbee, DPM, Elected to Board of Trustees
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| PODIATRISTS IN THE NEWS | |
Shower Shoes at Gym Can Prevent Foot Infections: NC Podiatrist
Most people will tell you that you're probably safe if you don't wear shower shoes at the gym, but it's not a chance you should be willing to take. Warm, moist environments like your gym's shower stalls are the places where fungi thrive, and if your feet are not protected by shower shoes, it's easy to pick one up. Going into shower stalls unprotected can lead to athlete's foot or even onychomycosis, an infection that turns toenails hard and yellow, says Dr. Jane Andersen, a podiatrist and a spokesperson for the American Podiatric Medical Association.
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Both infections can require over-the-counter and prescription antifungal treatments, and if you pick up onychomycosis at the gym, it can be a lengthy process that takes months to fully treat.
Source: Lizzie Fuhr, FitSugar.com [3/17/14]
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| MEETING NEWS | |
AAPSM Holds Successful Stand Alone in Tampa
A crowd of American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine members gathered this past weekend in Tampa, Florida to celebrate the rebirth of the stand-alone meeting. Attendees were treated to lectures by speakers such as Drs. Rich Bouche, John Grady, Amol Saxena, Michael Fredericson, and many other talented AAPSM past presidents, Fellows, and special guests of the Academy.
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AAPSM President Dr. Paul Langer (L) presents the Robert Barnes Distinguished Service Award to Dr. Matthew Werd |
A special awards luncheon held during the seminar honored 2014 Golden Foot Award Recipient Brooks Johnson and the 2014 Robert Barnes Distinguished Service Award Recipient Matt Werd, DPM. The membership also welcomed Alex Kor, DPM from Baltimore, Maryland as its newest director.
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| PODIATRIC PRODUCTS IN THE NEWS | |
IL Podiatrist Discusses 3-D Bioscaffold
RTI Surgical Inc., a global surgical implant company, has launched NanOss Bioactive 3D, a synthetic three dimensional bioscaffold which supports bone formation, and map3 Cellular Allogeneic Bone Graft, an implant that contains the three essential elements needed to generate and maintain new bone.
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"NanOss Bioactive 3D is easy to use and has a rigid structure that does not fall apart," said Edgardo Rodriguez, DPM, director of the Chicago Foot and Ankle Deformity Correction Center. "Its high surface area makes it a very favorable and suitable osteoconductive scaffold."
Source: Close-Up Media via COMTEX [3/17/14]
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| QUERIES (NON-CLINICAL) | |
Query: Pre-tape Skin Adhesive
We often apply strappings and show patients how to do this at home. We give them a list of supplies to get, but we can't find a good pre-tape skin adhesive they can buy. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Doug Milch, DPM, Asheville, NC
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| RESPONSES/COMMENTS (CLINICAL) | |
From: Eric Bornstein, DMD
Nomir Medical Technologies' newly FDA-approved for the treatment of onychomycosis has indeed conducted controlled studies with its Noveon photo-biological laser system on onychomycosis.
First JAPMA article: (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 99(4): 348-352, 2009)
Temperatures observed during a human pilot study of onychomycosis with the Noveon laser never reached higher than...
Editor's note: Dr. Bornstein's extended-length letter can be read here.
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| RESPONSES/COMMENTS (NON-CLINICAL) | |
From: Robert Kornfeld, DPM
I take great exception to Dr. Young's condemnation of Dr. Baum's surgical technique. We do not get paid by the hour. We get paid by the procedure. After doing hammertoe surgery for over 30 years, I can see no reason for it to take much more than ten minutes per toe. I have completed many in probably five minutes. Let me remind Dr. Young that the fee includes after care. It is opinions like this that belittle what we do and are the biggest poison affecting our specialty.
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| RESPONSES/COMMENTS (NEWS STORIES) - PART 1A | |
From: Joseph Borreggine, DPM
I have a few words for this egregious abuse of capitalism. This is appalling. I understand that we cannot restrict someone's trade or tell them what they can charge, but this is ridiculous. I fully comprehend that one can set a fee for what the market can bear, but come on! "The foot doctor to the stars" has her "head in the stars" as far as I am concerned and needs to come down to the planet Earth. With this article, she just became the poster child of why DPMs will never get the respect or parity we deserve. I would like to know where the NYSPMA, NY podiatric licensing board, and APMA weigh in on this horrendous slap in the face to the podiatric profession?
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From: Simon Young, DPM
It seems outrageous that foot surgeons' out-of-network charges are paid with such little oversight. As usual, podiatrists are not the only practitioners involved in this practice, but in this case a podiatrist took it to a different level of greed.
How is this different from what insurance companies do to the in-network doctors who are part of the solution to our healthcare crisis? Multiples of millions of dollars are needlessly denied for proper services billed.
United healthcare/oxford screws me regularly and ...
Editor's note: Dr. Young's extended-length letter can be read here.
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RE: Outrageous Foot Tattoo of the Day
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A layman's guide to surgical desyndactyly |
Source: Submitted by Dr. Debra Manheim
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