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Jim Donahue (812)305-4649 [email protected] September/October 2013 current Pedorthics Volume 45, Issue 5 Features 18 | CEP A Tale of Two Pathologies: A New 44 | Always Jump at a Professional Invitation! Case Study of Congenital Talipes My Nora Systems Workshop Opportunity Equinovarus (CTEV): Surgical Options By Rob Sobel, C. Ped. As practitioners in pedorthics, if there are any opportunities (Part 3) available for you to meet with other pedorthists, or other practitioners in a setting that offers you the opportunity to By Dean Mason, MA, OST, C. Ped., CO exchange ideas, likes, dislikes, successes and failures – make In previous installments, the background and etiology of CTEV has been sure you jump at the chance every time it’s offered. presented looking at two cases that have been presented with the same diagnosis: resistant CTEV. The twist is that these cases are 50 years apart. In this final installment, the types of surgical procedures will be described that are used to manage the complexity of CTEV. 46 | Footwear Marches On … And the Science of Shoes Evolves in Step 22 | Conference Boot Camp! How to Get the Article Update By Margaret Hren, Current Pedorthics Staff Writer Most Out of Your Conference Attendance At the most basic level, shoes serve as foot protection. But and Experience footwear can transcend this purpose. While some may argue that shoes serve as fashion statements, the pedorthic profession By Margaret Hren, Current Pedorthics Staff Contributor focuses on making footwear tools for better health and comfort. PFA’s 54th Annual Symposium and Exhibition is just a few short weeks away and it is only appropriate that we want offer you some help and tips on a few simple planning techniques that will allow you to get the most 52 | CHECK IT OUT! PFA’S Symposium out of your attendance in any professional situation. & Exhibition 2013: So You Think You Know Boston? Guess Again – Part 2 26 | Motion as Medicine: Do Patients with By Margaret Hren, Current Pedorthics Staff Contributor Osteoarthritis Need Stability or Mobility? We hope you took the time to read ‘Part One’ in our July/August By Roy H. Lidtke, DPM, FACFAOM issue of Current Pedorthics. Because now this is ‘Part Two!’ For years the general consensus was that pain in arthritis was a Remember, make sure to stop by the PFA’s Booth Halloween direct result of the movement of the joint; the best treatment was to Night when the Exhibit Hall opens for your chance to enter our try and immobilize the joint as best we can. What researchers have Boston Trivia Contest to see just how much you remember recently discovered is changing the way we think about joint loading, reading about the many unique firsts and facts about this great the influence of the foot on lower extremity mechanics, and even our host city.