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Cover Story

Athletes embrace vibration training despite mixed reviews

By Jordana Bieze Foster

Departments

Editor's Memo

• Working benefits

Women's Health

• Researchers suspect biomechanical link in knee OA
• Back pain in pregnancy requires practitioner creativity

Diabetes Care

• Practitioners face facts in footcare treatments

Fast Facts

• Basketball injuries

News

In Stride

Sports medicine:

• Soft landing studies find effects beyond sagittal plane of knee
• Track shoes trade economy for lower impact peak force
• Soccer players choose correct shoe sizes

Gait Rehabilitation Technology:

• Insoles, physical therapy lessen pain of Achilles tendinopathy
• Running shoes reduce plantar pressure for RA patients
• Ankle bracing does not affect balance

Gait Analysis:

• Fairly normal gait returns after ankle replacement
• Toe-out strategy relieves early-stage knee OA pain
• Frictional forces may cause ulcers

Market Advance

New products:

• Hallux heaven
• Minimal bracing
• Back on track
• Stretch that stride
• Walk a mile...or 115,000

Industry news:

• FDA looks at bisphosphonate link to heart trouble
• New York sues Merck over Vioxx risks
• Outer-space technology measures bones
• OA drug Prexige faces snub by FDA
• Spenco steps into diabetic insole market
• FDA slaps down Cymbalta promotional materials
• Nike unveils athletic shoe for Native Americans
• Zimmer readies to buy Orthosoft

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