What is the diabetic foot?
If you have diabetes, one of the most common issues and concerns is your foot. Your foot is a complex structure consisting of 26 bones, 33 joints, and 120 muscles/ligaments/nerves[1]. Each structure has a unique purpose, and diabetes can causes alternation in function for any of them. The most common problem we see in diabetics […]
Diabetes and podiatry; what’s the connection?
Foot complications in diabetes are common yet the link between the two is not very well-known. Here to tell us more about it ahead of World Diabetes Day on 14 November is specialist and author for Journal of Foot and Ankle Research Trevor Prior, with colleague Debbie Coleman.
Report: Gout Vastly Undertreated in USA & UK
Gout, the most common inflammatory arthritis worldwide, is treatable but vastly undertreated, according to epidemiologic studies that now encompass three continents. The undertreatment problems previously reported in the United Kingdom and the United States also characterize gout in Taiwan, according to a nationwide population study. Chang-Fu Kuo, MD, from the Division of Rheumatology, Orthopaedics and […]
REPORT: Office Visits by Patients With Diabetes Rising Rapidly in United States
Office visits in the United States for diabetes rose 20% from 2005 to 2010, with the largest increase in adults in their mid-20s to mid-40s, according to a new data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Nearly 29 million people in the United States have […]
What’s at stake if Congress repeals the Medical Device Tax?
During the battle to reopen the government, a pot With that in mind, here are some frequently asked questions about the tax. Q: What is the medical device tax? A: Since the beginning of this year, medical device manufacturers and importers have paid a 2.3 percent tax on the sale of any taxable medical device. […]
“We Shouldn’t Be Doing It”: Lecturer Calls Out Serious Podiatric Myths
During his lecture entitled “Righting the Wrong: Exploding Myths in Podiatric Medicine” last month, Bradley W. Bakotic, DPM, DO, Bako Pathology Services in Alpharetta, GA called out some myths which have inexplicably become part of the modus operandi of the modern podiatrist. “Podiatry is a little bit incestuous,” Dr. Bakotic said. “If you go to MD […]