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Local input is just as crucial on the physical-therapy side - especially if Haiti is going to be more accepting of amputees. At the Medishare complex, which is now the largest hospital in Haiti, disaster volunteers like Miami podiatrist Dr. Sandra Garcia-Ortiz have begun training Haitians in recent days to help amputees properly care for wounds. If those injuries go neglected, for example, the limbs can become flexed, or too rigid for prostheses to work. "Our hope," says Garcia-Ortiz, "is that enough Haitians will see that there are too many amputees for them to ignore now, and that...
...FamilyMed center was unusually busy Sunday afternoon before the march. Caterino, a podiatrist, said at least three middle-aged patients had already come to see him specifically seeking anti-inflammatory prescriptions in anticipation of the arduous day ahead. "They?re concerned about their joints, ligaments and tendons," he said...
...resounding yes. Over the past three years, nearly every major shoemaker has begun designing with one eye on fashion and the other keenly fixed on comfort and health. DKNY and Amalfi of Italy have crafted dress shoes with new technology like Insolia, a system invented by a podiatrist that shifts weight from the front of the shoe back to the heel, making high heels feel more like flats. At the same time, old standbys in the comfort-shoe industry, such as Birkenstock, Rockport and Ecco of Denmark, have stepped up their styles, boosting heel height or introducing trendy animal prints...
After this happens for the fifth time, my podiatrist strongly suggests that I come up with an answer...
...backseat to this desire. "I wanted to make a film about believable people doing believable things in unbelievable ways," Egoyan has always said about The Adjuster. After seeing the film, a wicked black comedy that involves an insurance adjuster, film censors, an ex-football player, a lamp merchant, a podiatrist, and a butterfly collector among others, critic Roger Ebert mused that Egoyan must love puzzles, paradoxes, and card tricks...