Durable medical goods are items that your doctor would often dispense from his or her office. In other cases, durable medical goods might be purchased from a home health supply company. Examples of durable medical goods include a walking cast, a night splint, a bedsid...
One of my peers came to me the other day at the hospital and asked me about a pain she was having in the back of the ankle. She stated that she had had plain films taken that were unremarkable. She also had an MRI that failed to show any bone edema, ar...
I work in a rural, hospital-based practice that is a regional referral center. Much of the care I provide is related to diabetes. Subsequently, I see and treat a lot of Charcot joints. Charcot arthropathy occurs in patients who...
I’ve seen a wonderful patient over the past year who is in her late sixties and has been coming in for treatment of a wart. Although we typically think of a wart (verrucae plantaris) as a disease of adolescence, every so often I’ll see someone in their sixth or...
Hypertension most commonly refers to the overall pressure of the circulatory system, or what would be called high blood pressure. The term hypertension can also be used to describe elevated pressures in specific regions o...
