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Our mission is to showcase evidence and expertise across multiple medical disciplines to build, preserve, and restore function of the lower extremity from pediatrics to geriatrics. Keeping the lower extremity healthy and functioning is what LER readers do. Our readers don’t come from one discipline, they come from many: Podiatry, Sports ...
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Crary Shoes: Pedorthic expertise complements decades of custom ...
Crary Shoes has a motto: “The last is always first.”. With a decades-long commitment to quality, the business provides custom shoes for clients with a spectrum of foot concerns, ranging from diabetes to unusually shaped or sized feet.
Expert Commentary: Lymphedema of the Lower Extremities
Lymphedema has an objectively documented impact on emotional well-being. The impact of lymphedema in the upper limb is comparable in nature, yet in those with leg involvement, reports of fatigue are much more prevalent and the intensity and level of distress in lower limb lymphedema is exaggerated.
Offloading strategies for knee osteoarthritis
Altering joint alignment, surgically or nonsurgically, is associated with decreased pain and improved function in patients with knee OA. Researchers are working to explain the mechanisms underlying these effects, particularly with respect to bracing. by Yatin Kirane, D.Orth, PhD; Rebecca Zifchock, PhD; and Howard Hillstrom, PhD.
Conservative Management of Freiberg’s Disease
The primary treatment goals for Freiberg’s disease are reducing or eliminating pain and maintaining a functional non-pathologic gait. A secondary goal is regression or cessation of progressive joint destruction although this is more likely …
Older Patients with Knee Pain Benefit from Allograft Transplant ...
Knee pain in active patients over 40 is often difficult to treat but utilizing a special kind of allograft may be a step in the right direction, according to research from Katlyn Robinson, BS and colleagues in a paper titled, “Efficacy of Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation in the Knee in Adults Forty Years and Older.”
Patient-specific Talus Replacement | Lower Extremity Review …
This replacement allows the patient to maintain ankle joint movement between the distal tibia and the restor3d Total Talus Replacement implant, which imitates the anatomical talus in shape and size. As the diseased talus is replaced, pain is reduced.
Healing hypoxic wounds: Fighting an uphill battle
A lack of oxygen can negatively affect wound healing in a number of ways, but surgical, pharmacological, and other technological advances are allowing clinicians to enhance oxygen delivery to damaged tissues and significantly improve healing of hypoxic wounds. By Nanjin Park, DPM; Latricia Allen, DPM, MPH; Mary Nametka, MSN, RN, CWS, CWON, FNP ...