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Tackling Rashes, Ringworm And Warts With A New Post-Game Routine For Student Athletes

It's not uncommon for young athletes to develop skin disorders and viruses including staph infections, ringworm, and impetigo. As March is National Athletic Training Month (NATM), Athletico Physical Therapy is using the observance as an opportunity to educate parents, coaches and athletes about the importance of practicing proper equipment and personal hygiene in youth sports. As accredited and ce..(Read More)

How To Eat Like An Audiologist: A New Cookbook To Benefit The American Academy Of Audiology Foundation

During the spring of 2018, a group of friends who are all members of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) sat around a table in a Scottsdale restaurant enjoying a fun night of fine food and wine, when the discussion of cookbooks came up. Following another round or two of wine, they agreed to create a fun new cookbook, “ . . . of, by, and for audiologists,” the sale of which would benefit the ma..(Read More)

Study Shows Prevalence Of Back Pain In Children And Adolescents, And Increased Rates Associated With Increasing Age

A new study presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) highlights the frequency of back pain in children and adolescents and suggests there is a significant linear increase in back pain, specifically in the lower back as kids age from 10 to 18-years-old. Up until this point, there has been no known large-scale epidemiologic study of back pain in a ..(Read More)

Why Millions Of Women Are Suffering In Silence With Costochondritis, A 'Forgotten' Condition

Peter Askes PT, cert. MDT, CST and founder of the American Rib Pain Institute, recently published a book for patients with costochondritis. After three years of medical literature research, Mr. Askes concludes that many questions about the disorder remain unanswered and unaddressed by the medical community. In his book, Costochondritis: A Forgotten Condition, Mr. Askes offers answers to the three ..(Read More)

Lipogems Provides An FDA Cleared Option For Patients Between Conservative Therapy And Major, Invasive Surgery

The Lipogems system is leading the way in orthopaedic medicine by assisting patients who fall in the "treatment gap" between conservative therapies and major, surgical intervention. The system provides patients a natural, FDA cleared option to high-cost, unproven treatments like stem cell therapies and other technologies that are not approved by the FDA. When patients experience injuries or ortho..(Read More)

AI And MRIs At Birth Can Predict Cognitive Fevelopment At Age 2, UNC Study Finds

Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine used MRI brain scans and machine learning techniques at birth to predict cognitive development at age 2 years with 95% accuracy. “This prediction could help identify children at risk for poor cognitive development shortly after birth with high accuracy,” said senior author John H. Gilmore, MD, Thad and Alice Eure Distinguished Pro..(Read More)

Can Ovarian Cancer Be Diagnosed Earlier?

Fewer than half of ovarian cancer patients survive until five years after diagnosis. According to the American Cancer Society, this is because only about one-fifth of ovarian cancer cases are detected early, when the chances of successful treatment and recovery are highest. “If we could change this reality by detecting (ovarian cancer) at a curable stage, we could save many lives,” said Keren Lev..(Read More)