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5 ways to get claims paid at your medical practice

May 28, 2013

Managing insurance accounts receivable (A/R) is certainly a war. Not only do you face battles on the home front in making sure you have all the pertinent information to be able to file the claim, but you fight many battles abroad with the insurance company once the claim goes out the door.

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Case Report and Review of Primary Bone Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Involving the Calcaneus – Corrected Proof

April 29, 2013

Abstract: Primary bone lymphoma from diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is a very rare condition, especially in the foot. In the present case report, a 23-year-old female patient presented with long-term pain along the lateral aspect of her right calcaneus. Ancillary magnetic resonance imaging revealed a radiolucent bone tumor in the calcaneus.

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Calling out the loons

April 25, 2013

I have started a new category for posts: Fallacies > Loons .

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‘Volume’ based injuries vs ‘Pace’ based injuries

April 20, 2013

The cause of overuse injury in runners is multifactorial and training related issues are commonly cited as a factor. This review investigated some of those issues and proposed an interesting hypothesis: CLASSIFYING RUNNING‐RELATED INJURIES BASED UPON ETIOLOGY, WITH EMPHASIS ON VOLUME AND PACE Rasmus Oestergaard Nielsen, MHSc, Ellen Aagaard Nohr, PhD, Sten Rasmussen, MD, and Henrik Sørensen, Int J Sports Phys Ther. 2013 April; 8(2): 172–179 .

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Effects of “Foot Orthoses” on Running Mechanics in Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome

March 29, 2013

I have had a couple of emails about this study, mainly in the context that the study does not support the hypothesis I proposed on the potential role of foot orthotics in patellofemoral pain syndrome. Two randomized controlled trials tell us that foot orthotics do work in patellofemoral pain syndrome, so that is not the issue; the issue is the mechanism of action given that other studies show that the traditional model that the use foot orthotics is based on is not supported

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Is Manual Examination Of The Foot A Dying Art?

March 26, 2013

Things change with time.

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Does Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy Really Have A Stocking Distribution?

March 14, 2013

Tossing and turning, trying to decide if I was dreaming or truly awake in a seemingly restless, endless fog, I knew, or at least I thought, that I was watching a trial of some sort on the TV. It was not ESPN, but DSPN, the new network that had just hit the airwaves.

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No consensus on a common cause of foot pain

February 26, 2013

There are more charismatic-sounding sports injuries than plantar fasciitis, like tennis elbow, runner’s knee and turf toe. But there aren’t many that are more common. The condition, characterized by stabbing pain in the heel or arch, sidelines up to 10 percent of all runners, as well as countless soccer, baseball, football and basketball players, golfers, walkers and others from both the recreational and professional ranks.

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Simultaneous Development of Dieterich Disease and Freiberg Disease

January 30, 2013

Abstract: Dieterich disease is an uncommon arthropathy of the hand, with few studies published.

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Getting Answers On The Peripheral Nervous System At The Upcoming AENS Meeting

January 9, 2013

Resolutions are bandying about in our heads, the idiot box, the radio and virtually every other medium known to man now that we have slipped so quickly over the cliff into 2013.

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