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Adapting Podiatry Practice To COVID-19: Key Principles And Protocols
SOURCE: Podiatry Today
Regardless of one’s practice setting or region, revolutionary changes have taken place in health care in an attempt to prevent, contain and treat the novel coronavirus. With this in mind, this author talks with DPMs throughout the country regarding their experiences providing lower extremity care during the COVID-19 pandemic and how their day-to-day professional lives continue to change.

 
Clinical Applications of Custom 3D Printed Implants in Complex Lower Extremity Reconstruction
SOURCE: Lower Extremity Review
The authors present four cases of complex lower extremity reconstruction involving segmental bone loss and deformity – failed total ankle arthroplasty, talus avascular necrosis, ballistic trauma, and nonunion of a tibial osteotomy. Traditional operative management is challenging in these cases and there are high complication rates.

 
Psychological and Cognitive Barriers to Diabetes-Related Foot Complication Treatment
SOURCE: The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds
This study investigated clinicians’ perspectives about cognitive functioning and mental health in individuals with diabetes-related foot complications (DRFCs), and how these impact the clinicians’ treatment of the patients’ conditions. Psychological and cognitive impairments may be more pronounced in individuals with DRFCs compared with the general diabetes mellitus population. 

 
The Genetic Blueprint That Results in Foot-and-Mouth Being so Infectious
SOURCE: Science Daily
Scientists have conducted a 'molecular dissection' of a part of the virus that causes foot-and-mouth disease, to try and understand why the pathogen is so infectious. A team of scientists has investigated the significance of the unusual way the virus's genome - or genetic blueprint - codes for the manufacture of a protein called 3B. The protein is involved in the replication of the virus.

 
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CFPM Annual General Meeting
On Friday, January 29, 2021, the Canadian Federation of Podiatric Medicine will hold a virtual Annual General Meeting. Members in good standing are strongly encouraged to attend.