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What is a wart and how do you treat it? This article explores treatment of common skin warts with Natural Wart Salve.

The Atlantic recently published an article entitled Why Aren't Running Shoes Preventing Running Injuries? The article looked at the sport of running, running injuries and describes how shoes just simply haven't benefited runners in the way that we might think. Although we're lead to believe that the science behind shoe manufacturing and testing has evolved to make a better shoe, it seems that the rate of injuries in runners has stayed at a consistent level in spite of these advances. If that's the case, then what's all the buzz about with a Hoka One One or a Nike Air?

With the advent of MRI, we now have a new category of bone injury called a bone contusion (also called bone swelling). Is a bone contusion really a fracture? I think so, but thus far, we don’t really have the vocabulary in the literature to call a bone contusion a fracture.

I spent a large portion of my afternoon yesterday helping two people navigate end of life issues. June, a 93 year old woman presented with her daughter from a local rehabilitation center with an ischemic limb. Although June had been complaining about left foot pain for days, her rehab was for a right hip fracture. Therefore, the focus of care was on the hip fracture. Her referral to our wound center was made by her cardiologist who recognized the signs of critical limb ischemia.

The Pedag Holiday is now the Pedag Mini Viva. A great product at a great price.