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HEALTHBEAT SHOW NOTES .... Episode #220 - Recorded September 25, 2009Hello
and welcome to this week’s edition of HealthBeat, Chiropractic OnLine Today’s
Health, News and informational Podcast. In
this week’s news: We’ll
Looking At –
For HealthBeat, This is Dr. Todd Eglow! This week’s Episode is sponsored by DaVinci Laboratories. Please surf to our web site at www.ChiropracticRadio.com and click on the DaVinci link for your Health and Nutritional needs. We also would appreciate your passing the word of our Podcasts to your friends and colleagues. Please let everyone know how easy it is to subscribe via the Apple iTunes directory. If you are interested in creating personalized Healthbeat podcasts for your office or website, to help attract new patients, please surf to our web site and send us an Email …. …. or Skype us by typing in “healthbeat”, all in small letters. Twitter - We are always looking to expand our interactivity with you, our loyal Health Community. If you would like to be kept up-to-date with current events about Health, Technology and ME, feel free to surf to – http://www.twitter.com/teglow and click on the Follow link. Next, we would like to send out a big Thank You to those of you who are linking our Podcast to your home pages.... We do request that you also include a link to our main Podcast Page at www.ChiropracticRadio.com And as always, a big thank you to our COT HealthBeat Listener community. This podcast is made available thru the generous donations we receive and greatly appreciate. If you could remember to surf to our Web Site and click on the PayPal link to make a monthly donation, even $5-$10, this would be very much welcomed. Finally, Chiropractic OnLine Today has always provided our news and education content for free and plan on continuing this policy. However, we do request that if you are enjoying these podcasts, that you surf to ChiropracticRadio.com and consider clicking on our PayPal link to make a donation to keep these Podcasts airing. We thank everyone for their continued support. And Now for some news …. World
Trade Center and Stress 6 Years Later Adults
Directly Exposed to the World Trade Center Disaster Still Had Elevated Risk of
Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms and New Asthma Diagnosis Five to Six Years Later. People directly exposed to the 2001 World Trade Center disaster were four times more likely than other people to report post-traumatic stress symptoms in 2006-2007, a new study shows. While many studies have documented the adverse physical and mental health conditions associated with 9/11, most have focused on the short-term health effects within the first three years following the disaster. In a new study, "Asthma and Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms 5 to 6 Years Following Exposure to the World Trade Center Terrorist Attack," the Health Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) examined the nation's largest cohort of directly exposed people. Approximately 50,000 study participants reported their symptoms in a survey completed online, by mail or over the telephone; their medical records were not reviewed. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, also found elevated asthma rates among exposed people. But new asthma diagnoses were more likely to be reported in the first 16 months after 9/11 than later, in 2004-2006. The full report, available at http://jama.ama-assn.org/ , suggests that post-traumatic stress symptoms and asthma, which often occur together, are the major health ramifications of the World Trade Center attack. Surf to our Show Notes for More Information - http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2009/pr052-09.shtml
Ischiofemoral
Impingement Syndrome A
study in the American Journal of
Roentgenology looked at the condition of Ischiofemoral Impingement Syndrome. The purpose of
this study was to describe the MRI findings of an entity in which
patients present with hip pain, abnormal MR signal intensity of the
quadratus femoris muscle, and narrowing of the ischiofemoral space. Subjects with an abnormal quadratus femoris muscle were all women 30-71 years old and had significantly narrower ischiofemoral spaces when compared with control subjects. The quadratus femoris space was significantly narrower in affected subjects. Abnormalities of the quadratus femoris muscle included edema (100%), partial tear (33%), and fatty infiltration (8%). The hamstring tendons of affected subjects showed evidence of edema (50%) and partial tears (25%). The study concluded that Ischiofemoral impingement may represent a cause of hip pain and should be considered in cases with MR signal abnormality of quadratus femoris muscle. Surf to our Show Notes for a link to this Study’s Abstract - http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/193/1/186 Updated
ICD-9-CM 2010 Codes According to the newsletter update from ChiroCode, new Activity Codes and other ICD-9 changes became effective on October 1, 2009. There are 313
new diagnosis codes, including 104 new activity codes (E codes). Also new is category E000, External cause status. A code from this category should be assigned whenever any other E code is assigned for an encounter, including an Activity E code, except for certain events noted in the guidelines. Surf to our Show Notes for a link to ChiroCode’s Webinar series - https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/761962707 This
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