Podiatry Update

Where do I work?

Department of Podiatry, La Trobe University (enjoy it)
Croydon Total Footcare (enjoy it to... but have to as married to the boss)

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This Los Angeles Podiatrist has apparently been naughty:

Facing medicare fraud charges - here

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Looking for a Podiatry or lower limb related conference?

Podiatry Conference (complete listing internationally)
Podiatry Events

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Links to Podiatry Schools:

Podiatry Schools in USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Spain

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Labels: podiatry profession

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the business of ranking a site well in the search engines, like Google and Yahoo! to get visitors to your website. If you have a website for your clinic, you have to promote it widely if you want these visitor. It has to be a good website address so that patients can remember; you have to have it in all your advertisements and on your stationary including your business cards. For the search engines, if someone types in "{Your City} podiatrist", does your website show up? If it doesn't then you have got some work to do. See this on how the search engines rank a website. To get a site to rank well, you need to build backlinks by getting other sites to link to your website. Submitting to link and web directories, such as DMOZ also helps link building. Generally, but not always, the more links there are to a site (link juice), the better you will rank in the search engines for yoru keywords. If you serious about your website and have a lot of competition, then you should consider engaging an SEO professional to look after the site (not an SEO Kiddie).

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Some of our current research:

Some work we are doing in the Department of Podiatry is looking at measuring how much force is needed to supinate the foot - ie how much force is needed from a foot orthotic if we want to change the position of the foot. We have had several publications on this already and there are a lot more on the way. More information - supination resistance. We have found that the force to supinate the foot is more related to a number of foot problems than excessive pronation is (especially posterior tibial dysfunction and recurrent ankle sprains). Supination resistance is also predictive of dynamic function, whereas most of the measurements routinely done in clinical practice are not predictive of dynamic function.

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Forum's for those who are evenly balanced:

The Podiatry Forum
Almost Uncensored Podiatry Forum

I call them evenly balanced people as most posters to these two forums seem to have chips on both shoulders :-)
Anonymous posters in forums do not have much credibility in my book ... judge for yourself by checking these two sites.

And for those who want the real truth there is Podiatry Bytes .... yeah right! - I actually note that the almighty Google search engine does not even index this site .... probably reflects its importance....the site is also anonymous (there goes any credibility that it could have had).

I am not anonymous - Craig Payne

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Two new studies on shock wave therapy:

Ultrasonographic evaluation at 6-month follow-up of plantar fasciitis after extracorporeal shock wave therapy
Shock wave therapy induces neovascularization at the tendon–bone junction. A study in rabbits

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Labels: physical therapy

New books:

Was browsing at amazon.com and found these new books that are not published yet. They can be preordered:
Foot and Ankle in Rheumatoid Arthritis
McMinn's Color Atlas of Foot & Ankle Anatomy
Foot and Ankle Secrets
Managing the Diabetic Foot
The Foot: Optimizing Function
Research Methods for Podiatrists
Biomechanics of the Lower Extremity
Fractures of the Foot & Ankle

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Charcot's neuroarthropathy:

All the latest information on Charcot's neuroarthropathy from ePodiatry for health professionals and on Charcot foot for those with diabetes.

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Welcome to my blog

I have set up this web log for Podiatry news and my views. To find out more about me, check here:
Craig Payne

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