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No Need For Speed - While You Were Out
Need a reason to listen to your body? Try watching runners undergo surgery
 

 

by: John Bingham
"Runner's World” Magazine July 14, 2004

Most of us see only the ceilings of operating rooms. We're wheeled in on a gurney, moved to the operating table, where we take a few whiffs of something, and the next thing we know we're in recovery. I think this is just as well. The business of surgery is an awkward juxtaposition of absolute precision and high school shop class. Men and women with decades of training and experience operate on patients with what seem like medical torture devices. I know this because last January I had a chance to observe arthroscopic surgery. And by observe, I mean I was in the operating room, within feet of the patients, within sight of everything going on. More>

 

 
  Tucson Orthopaedic Institute Announces FootCareMD.com
   

Official site of the AOFAS Fights Foot Aches, Pains and Ankle Sprains with help from local M.D.s

Beginning today, the world's tired and aching feet can find comfort, support and solutions online in the hands of America's leading foot care professionals. FootCareMD.com, a new Website specializing in foot and ankle health for all ages, allows foot sufferers, athletes, children and seniors from all walks of life, to point-and-click their way to a quick, interactive evaluation of their foot health symptoms and conditions. The M.D.-created online information center for foot and ankle health can be found on the Web at several addresses: http://www.FootCareMD.com, .org, .net and .info. More>


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