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Choosing the Right AFO for the patient - Part 1
A recent phone call from a retired colleague concerning their family members’ AFO status is the basis for the next several articles. Just how does one determine which AFO is correct for the p...
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Orthotic Dispense Day (for my students and perhaps your patients) Part 1
Recently my students at Samuel Merritt’s College of Podiatric Medicine received their orthotic devices to begin to break in. I want to go over the orthotic dispe...
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Custom Functional Orthotics versus Custom Accommodative Orthotics
In every case, biomechanics practitioners are faced with the decision on what type of orthotic they choose to manufacture for their patients. A quick perusal of the KRM website demonstrates the myr...
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Custom Foot Orthotics versus Ankle Foot Orthotics
The previous post compared custom accommodative foot orthotics to custom function foot orthotics. Now, we proceed along the spectrum of treatment options to ankle foot orthotics. We will limit this...
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Medicare Advantage Coverage of Foot Orthotics
A recent question to an online forum posed this question: Does Medicare Advantage provide coverage for foot orthotics without the shoe being attached to a leg brace? A new patient insists that the...
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Building a Custom Foot Orthotic, Forefoot Considerations
Sometimes routine life makes you curious about things you’d never considered before. That happened to me in Atlanta when I started looking into alternative ways of experiencing intimacy. Find...
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Biomechanics Patient from Start to Finish #1: Second Visit (assessing your diagnosis and treatment plan)
Last week I started a discussion on a patient with acute plantar heel pain and chronic recurrent achilles tendonitis. I started the conversation as if it was a limited...
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Don’t forget About the Kids
This time of year brings about the back to school rituals as well as the autumn sports seasons. It is a great time to remind ourselves of the often neglected biomechanical issues that may be lurkin...
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Retired and Audited
I retired from practice about three years ago and sold the practice. Now the DME MAC (CGS) agency is auditing me, saying I owe a substantial amount of money back for AFOs, CAM Boots and surgical dr...
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Biomechanics Patient from Start to Finish #1: Initial Visit
I had just started to write about all the Pathology Based Orthoses offered by KevinRoot Medical, but there seems to be low interest. Therefore, I am going to switch ge...
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Using the Configurator in FootID Pro, Part 16
I want to thank the readers of the Forum for sticking with it through this summer school version of the FootID Pro tutorial. The process of prescribing custom foot orthotics can be simple and strai...
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How does one deal with a disgruntled patient who newly presents to your office with a shopping bag full of foot
So, if you have a disgruntled patient with a shopping bag of foot orthotics which have failed to properly resolve the patient’s complaints. You have determined that no modifications to thos...
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P3 Pathology Based Orthoses: Lateral Ankle Instability
It was this design, a functional orthotic device for supinators, that initially drew me into Kevin’s Orthotic Lab (now KevinRoot Medical). Let’s look at th...
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Using the Configurator in FootID Pro, Part 15
I hope that readers of this Forum have learned as much about the contemporary methods for prescribing custom foot orthotics as I have in writing it. I started my practice of podiatry in 198...
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How do I deal with a patient with a shopping bag full of orthotics
How does one deal with a disgruntled patient who newly presents to your office with a shopping bag full of foot orthotics? This scenario happens all too often to many orthotic providers, especiall...
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P2 Pathology Based Orthoses: Adult Acquired Flatfoot Design
Patients with this foot type who present to you may bring a whole bag of unused orthotic devices with them. They have pain in their feet somewhere which brings them to...
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Using the Configurator in FootID Pro, Part 14
Our journey through the Configurator has finally arrived at the final column, "Covering". It is fitting for this to be the last step in constructing a custom foot orthotic. In essence, it is like t...
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Foot Orthotics and Medicare
A provider once told me that one can bill Medicare to get paid for orthotic using the KX modifier. Is this really a realistic expectation? If it is not realistic, what repercussions can one expect ...