Bluegrass Regional Foot & Ankle Associates

How to Keep Your Foot Safe During a Pedicure

Is pedicure safety really something you need to be aware of? It is. Because if you don’t watch it, you …

Your Next Step Podiatry

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Safety Tips for the Nail Salon

Before scheduling an appointment for your pedicure, review these safety tips to protect your feet before pampering them.

Why Are My Legs in Pain?

Leg discomfort is a common and often overlooked warning sign of peripheral vascular disease (PVD) – a condition in which there is damage or blockage in the blood vessels distant from your heart.

9 Health Rules That Doctors Never Break

Top doctors share the best health tips and health advice they themselves follow to prevent skin cancer and breast cancer, reduce back pain, prevent stress and more.

Patients with Diabetes: Take Care when Visiting Nail Salons

If you have diabetes, you know that good foot care is one of the most important aspects of the disease. Any small injury like a puncture wound, blister or scrape can become infected and degenerate into a serious foot ulcer if not caught in time.<br>Even something as simple as trimming your toenails mu

Pharmaceutical Payments to Physicians Associated with Increased Prescribing

The research indicated that the findings were "consistent across all studies," adding that the pharmaceutical-physician association caused doctors to prescribe differently.

How can one EB-5 project be associated with two regional centers?

How can one EB-5 project be associated with two regional centers? - 8 EB-5 Answers as of 12/08/2014

Physician-targeted marketing is associated with more opioid overdose deaths, new study finds

Opioid-related overdose deaths are higher in areas where there’s increased marketing of opioid products to physicians, highlighting the role the pharmaceutical industry plays in the opioid epidemic.

What Injuries Have Been Associated with Fluoroquinolone Associated Disability?

The list of injuries linked with fluoroquinolone associated disability seems to grow every day. Fluoroquinolones are a frequently-prescribed broad spectrum antibiotic mostly used to treat respiratory and urinary infections. When the issue of fluoroquinolone associated disability was first raised, complaints centered mostly on peripheral neuropathy; or, stated more simply, nerve damage. Patients experiencing nerve damage as a [...]

Study finds physician satisfaction not associated with better quality care

Although high levels of job satisfaction can improve burnout and retention rates, enjoying the practice of medicine does not appear to be correlated to better quality care or fewer medical errors, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

Is Stress Causing Your Weight Gain?

Do you have questions about stress causing weight gain? Learn all about our services and more. If you need more information, give our Duluth chiropractic clinic a call now to schedule an appointment!

Physician burnout: What can be done

Physician morale is on the decline as providers deal with more paperwork and regulatory hurdles than they ever have before. Creating a sense of camaraderie can help to combat workplace dissatisfaction.

The key to preventing depression in residents? Value young physicians.

Up to a third of resident physicians suffer from clinical depression or its symptoms.

Care by Podiatric Physicians Dramatically Decreases Limb Amputation

This from our colleagues at Rosalind Franklin University’s CLEAR: Newswise — Amputation, one of the most devastating and costly consequences of diabetes, can be prevented when patients are tr…

What Symptoms are Associated With a Foot Corn?

Prevent Pressure-Associated Ulceration with Shear Protection Bootees

To prevent pressure-associated ulceration, it is important to measure the foot from the back of the heel to the top of the big toe to achieve a comfortable fit.

Study Finds Birth Control Pill Use Isn't Associated With Birth Defects

Even women who continued to use the pill during the first few months of pregnancy saw no increase in major birth defects, according to data gleaned from Danish registries.

Are your feet in tiptop shape?

A bunion is a bony deformity of the joint at the base of the big toe. Dr. Elardo talks about bunions: common causes and treatment options.

Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Prevention, Diagnosis and Classification

Diabetic ulcers are the most common foot injuries leading to lower extremity amputation. Family physicians have a pivotal role in the prevention or early diagnosis of diabetic foot complications. Management of the diabetic foot requires a thorough knowledge of the major risk factors for amputation, frequent routine evaluation and meticulous preventive maintenance. The most common risk factors for ulcer formation include diabetic neuropathy, structural foot deformity…