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Hi, Doctor Belton here. 
I'm going to do a staff training

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today, staff and doctors 
training about all the office 

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procedures that we do and all 
the treatments that we do. 

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I'm going to go over. 
It's kind of a comprehensive 

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explanation, but I think many 
people just don't know exactly 

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what the treatments are. 
This can be for the back office 

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staff, so they know kind of what
we're doing and also for the 

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front office when people are 
checking out and they're getting

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these procedures. 
So we're going to go over all of

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these procedures. 
They're in alphabetical order. 

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So I'm going to put a link in a 
lot of these. 

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There's going to be these little
links where you can learn more 

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if you want to. 
These are going to go to 

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different Google patient 
education things that we do. 

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So let's start out aspiration of
assist. 

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This is where there is a cyst in
the in the foot. 

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Usually it's coming from a joint
or a tendon sheath. 

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It looks like a big bulb on the 
skin. 

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It can be different places to 
aspirated or to take out the 

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liquid prevent we we use 
anesthesia, so we anesthetize 

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the area. 
Usually it's right on the top of

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the skin, right over it first, 
and usually one CC is enough. 

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And then what we do is we take 
an 18 gauge needle with the same

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syringe or a bigger syringe, 
usually 3:00 to 5:00 or 10CC 

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syringes and you pull out all 
the liquid that's in there and 

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that should deflate this. 
This can be sometimes done with 

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ultrasound and then afterwards 
you apply compression, a 1-2 or 

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three inch coban. 1 inch tends 
to be for toes, 3 inch tends to 

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be for the foot and they'll keep
that on there for repeating it 

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once a day after they shower for
two weeks and then usually do a 

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two week follow up for this. 
That's what a a cyst removal. 

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How that is in the foot. 
There's a high chance of 

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recurrence with cyst removals 
and if it doesn't resolve doing 

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it like two or three times then 
then a lot of times we'll we'll 

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we'll surgically remove the 
cysts, but even with surgery 

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there's a high recurrence rate. 
Next thing would be biopsy of 

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the skin. 
Many of our patients they have 

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skin dermatitis or or athletes 
footer tiniapetus or eczema or 

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other types of things that 
haven't resolved. 

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They may have tried something 
topically already like an like 

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an antifungal cream. 
What we what we tend to do for 

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skin is we do one CC of 
lidocaine with epinephrine. 

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The reason for the epinephrine 
is because it it doesn't bleed 

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as much. 
So you would just put a little 

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bit of a little a little bit 
underneath. 

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Usually you want to do the the 
edge of the of the area that 

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you're going to biopsy and you 
do 2-2 punch, two 2mm punch 

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biopsies. 
That's the easiest for most. 

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The reason 22 millimeters are 
done is because you are because 

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you don't need to do a suture 
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have to put it, you have to put 
a stitch in there. 

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So it's just easier to do 2 of 
them and and they heal a little 

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bit better and they give you two
different parts of the of this 

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area. 
You use it to identify any 

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dermatitis athlete's foot 
rashes. 

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You may try something topically 
before but if that doesn't work 

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then you can do this. 
I usually do a two week follow 

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up or go over the results and 
you make sure everything heals 

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normally. 
These heal pretty well. 

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This is 1 type of a biopsy. 
We're going to go over a few 

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other types of biopsies as well.
This is a from a previous 

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lecture talks about CPT codes. 
There's if we do two of them, 

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you have to do an initial CPT 
and then the subsequent biopsy. 

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Here are some reasons that we 
would do it and some of the 

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things we talked about before. 
It's usually a smaller part of a

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larger lesion. 
This is how you do it. 

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You you kind of go down you 
punch it in there. 

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Be careful when you're removing 
it from the plunger right here 

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to not crush it. 
It goes in from formalin their 

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full thickness. 
They're going to heal by what we

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call secondary intention, which 
means that he'll just be on 

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their own. 
If it's over 3mm then then you 

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usually do a suture for 
pigmented lesions, which are 

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like things we're worried about,
Melanoma, you're going to do A 

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larger biopsy can be used and 
you have to. 

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You have to mark the position on
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So might take a picture. 
You might take a suture and put 

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a suture in the biopsy site to 
determine what's anterior 

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posterior in what, what time. 
Usually like 12:00, three 

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o'clock, whatever o'clock it is.
If you're doing that, we also 

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can use curitage that's using a 
curette. 

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This is typically used between 
the the toes. 

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So if there's a build up in 
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be athlete's foot, could be 
another condition called 

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erythrasma. 
And we test this with a woods 

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lamp where you take that little,
there's a little black or blue 

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light that we have and it makes 
it fluorescent. 

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You scrape the surface and you 
can send off. 

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There's no need for anesthesia, 
but it's it's difficult to get 

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anything deep with that. 
So we just usually use this 

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between the toes. 
There's another couple of 

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options of doing shave biopsies.
We do less shave biopsies. 

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If there's a lesion we're 
removing, it's usually where 

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we're cutting out a wart which 
shave doesn't usually get deep 

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enough, but this could be for a 
little elevations in the skin. 

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You can get the whole lesion out
there. 

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Usually we use the 15 blade, 
this is called a. 

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It's like a flexible blade. 
I think we have some of these in

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the office that you can use as 
well. 

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A nail biopsy. 
This is done right here. 

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Here's an example of a 3mm 
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This is after like a few months 
after because it's because it's 

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growing out and it's it's used 
to evaluate Melanonokea. 

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This is a black line in in the 
toe nail. 

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If we're concerned about 
Melanoma, we will do a biopsy at

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the at the nail base. 
You do a block of the toe, 

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meaning you numb up the toe in 
the back just like you would do 

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for an ingrown toenail. 
For nail biopsy we usually do a 

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bigger one, so a 3mm one, but we
don't need to do a suture and 

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you're going to evaluate you do 
a two week follow up and usually

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this grows out well without 
injuring without injuring the 

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the growth plate. 
With a nail biopsy it's that's 

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normally for dark discoloration.
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aren't considered biopsies. 
So taking a sample for funguses 

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in a biopsy, you're usually 
doing a toll block for that a 

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nail sample. 
This is what we typically do in 

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the office we used to evaluate 
nail fungus for discolored 

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nails. 
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patients have their name on a 
little piece of paper, I just 

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take that paper, stick it on the
little plastic bag that we have 

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in the bottom drawers and I take
a little trimming. 

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That's why I would, I would trim
distally here on the nail, put 

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it in the plastic bag, put what 
toe it is and then and I would 

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do the fill out the the biopsy 
within the within the medical 

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record. 
So you always have to put it in 

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the medical record what area 
you're doing and then that's 

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sent out and I put their name on
there from the from the little 

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post it notes that we use it's 
this isn't considered a biopsy. 

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I tend to see patients back in 
two weeks where I would go over 

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the results with them even even 
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fungus, a lot of times it can be
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things. 
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That's the reason we take the 
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I'm going to be putting someone 
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use a nail sample. 
Very rarely we do this as well. 

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This would be a needle 
aspiration. 

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So we talked about a cyst 
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With a cyst you could, you could
biopsy that so you could use 

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imaging which would be 
ultrasound for soft tissue 

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lipoma or a ganglion cyst. 
If you don't get anything then 

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you would just flush out with 
the specimen jar. 

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So let's say you try to pull 
something out of a soft tissue 

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mask, but you can't get anything
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You can still take what's in 
there and you you kind of draw 

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up the formalin and you push it 
back in and that could put in 

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some of the content. 
So you can send that. 

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You have to create back pressure
or a vacuum. 

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You can see how it's pulled out 
with the fingers right here 

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you're pulling it out. 
That's creating back pressure as

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you're pulling it. 
You go into different quadrants 

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because many times these lesions
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So there's different little 
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So as you're pulling it out, 
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quadrants. 
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again you, you drop the 
fixative, which is the formalin,

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and you squirt it back in the 
specimen container. 

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So that's what we do for, for 
these aspirations of soft tissue

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masses. 
OK, other procedures that we do,

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there's a procedure, we just 
call it a procedure, but it's 

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brace dispensing. 
So that's done with the doctor. 

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This is a visit with the doctor 
when we're dispensing the brace,

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the reason we do it with the 
doctor because we want to make 

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sure it fits. 
We'll make sure they have the 

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right shoes. 
And we also bill the insurance 

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at that visit. 
So we don't bill it when we 

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order it. 
We bill the insurance when we 

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dispense it and you need to make
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Giving them shoe guidance is is 
the of the utmost importance. 

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We give them a handout that has 
some information about shoes but

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typically they have to go up a 
half size and they they also may

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need to do an extra depth shoe 
or something similar. 

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These patients tend to be in 
like a an ortho feed or a doctor

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comfort shoe or a depth shoe or 
something that's a little bit 

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bigger. 
One thing to remember, patients 

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have a six week follow up and 
you have to be careful of any 

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rubbing. 
So if there's any rubbing on the

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skin, you have to be careful. 
They should be seen that sooner.

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And they can get a new brace 
every five years unless their 

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foot changes. 
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collapsed, it gets more swollen,
increased deformity where things

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don't fit. 
Then you can evaluate something 

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called same and similar and try 
to get a brace that's that's 

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newer. 
This is an example of a Ritchie 

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brace for a patient. 
We have to be careful that 

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there's no rubbing with these. 
That's especially important. 

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A patient is diabetic or 
neuropathic casting. 

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This is something that we do 
frequently post operatively. 

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There's a little cast stand that
we use, so all the materials 

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should be prepared. 
It's done in the office. 

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Sometimes patients might come in
with a bivalve cast that just 

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means it's cut down the side and
then you put an ACE wrap around 

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it. 
That's to allow for more 

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swelling initially, but then 
when we put a cast on, we'll put

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it on and take it off every week
to two depending on the amount 

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of swelling. 
If they have a lot of swelling, 

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they'll take it off in a week 
because the swelling will come 

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down with a cast and it'll it'll
it'll piston, meaning it'll move

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up and down and that could cause
irritation. 

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Usually we use 3 rolls of cast 
material and we use the the cast

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and sometimes we put a little 
peg underneath it to help the 

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patient. 
This is done by the doctor, but 

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the setup is done done by the 
staff. 

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Focused shockwave, they're two 
different types of shockwave. 

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We have in our in our Westboro 
office, we have the focused and 

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the radial. 
I'll talk about all of them 

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here. 
So the difference between 

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focused and radio focused is 
electrical waves. 

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It has very good bone 
penetration and it's used to 

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speed up healings of fractures, 
stress fractures, areas that 

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have bone marrow edema that's 
noted on an MRI. 

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It can help with arthritis pain,
but it doesn't restore the 

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cartilage, so it can help with 
the swelling underneath the 

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bone, the bone marrow edema. 
It uses electrical pulses. 

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It can be done by itself if it's
purely a bone issue, but many 

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times it's done with radial, 
radial shockwave and here is 

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radial shockwave. 
This one has a little piece of 

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metal that goes back and forth 
here and it creates these radial

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shock waves that penetrate into 
the skin. 

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It's used to help areas of 
chronic or acute injury. 

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It can be used for chronic like 
chronic issues like plantar 

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fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis, 
other types of tendons. 

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It tends to work really well on 
on soft tissue and it's all can 

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also can be used for acute 
things like an ankle sprains and

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things like that as well Hips 
the way I kind of explained it 

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50% and it's 82%. 
I know Doctor Savius is like 89%

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effective depends on what it is.
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uneffected. 
It's not usually used in 

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isolation, so you're doing other
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It's good for plantar fasciitis,
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swelling, ankle sprains, 
neuropathy, arthritis, not, not 

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so successful for neuropathy and
arthritis is the other things. 

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Usually you do three to six 
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The way I kind of explain to 
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months, I say they'll probably 
need 6 sessions. 

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they'll need 3. 

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Some of the doctors go right to 
four. 

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that you need more time and it 
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they see improvement. 
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sessions is that when they come 
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feel better. 
So what I what I tend to find is

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after they finish, I'll say 
you'll start have more good days

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than bad days. 
You can't have Motrin or similar

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medications for two days before 
and two days after. 

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And we tend to do weekly 
appointments. 

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It's kind of like going to the 
gym. 

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So you don't want to do it once 
a month because you're not going

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to see the benefit like going to
the gym you should go every week

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because you're you're it's going
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tissue repair. 
So it can go up to two weeks, 

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but usually it doesn't go beyond
that. 

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weekly. 

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It can be every two or three 
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If you want the effects of 
shockwave, a couple of the most 

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important things that we tell 
patients. 

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It stimulates circulation. 
OK, Micro circulation is 

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important to healing. 
You don't really need to know 

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these other things. 
Release of substance P just 

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means there's reduced pain in 
the tissues. 

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It stimulates growth factors 
like new growth of blood 

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vessels, bone and cartilage, and
it stimulates stem cells. 

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So it recruits kind of the stem 
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So it's not injecting stem 
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That's why it heals things that 
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And for patients, a lot of times
they're walking on their foot 

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and they just never have a 
chance to heal or it keeps 

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injuring it. 
So that's why we support it with

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like an orthotic or or a brace 
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faster. 
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we evaluate it usually with an 
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damaged tissue. 
We do three to six sessions. 

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They're done weekly, they're 7 
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a six week break. 
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repairing of the tissue and this
starts after six weeks. 

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This is the time where I usually
send them to physical therapy 

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during that six week interval 
and then I've seen them back 

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after six weeks and we see the 
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we can look at it with an 
ultrasound. 

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Again, with ultrasound, I tend 
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ultrasound, but I don't tend to 
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if they're paying out of pocket.
But if insurance covers it, then

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I'll bill it and it takes about 
six months for everything to 

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remodel. 
And so you just have to tell 

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patients to be patient radial 
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together. 
It helps to speed up the 

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healing. 
We only have both of these in 

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Westboro right now. 
It can also be done with pain 

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laser. 
There's also a pain laser that 

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we have Remi pain laser. 
So we could do the all the 

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combination talk a little bit 
about office visits just just 

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for simplicity. 
Sometimes we'll be putting this 

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on the notes, but just for kind 
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established patients, there's 
new patient visits and 

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established, so established or 
anyone that hasn't has been here

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and and new patients anyone 
hasn't seen this in, in more 

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than three years, OK. 
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years, it's an established 
patient. 

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I cannot keep it simple. 
A level 2 visit is is typically 

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a quick follow up where you're 
not really going in depth that 

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much. 
This is very high level overview

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here, but it like a parenchia 
follow up matrix, follow up, 

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infection follow up when 
everything is doing well. 

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Level 3 visit is where we spend 
most of our time, Level 3 and 

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level 4 for like a diabetic foot
exam. 

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Just a reminder for a diabetic 
foot exam, we tend to they put 

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in the billing not diabetes but 
normally the condition that 

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we're that we're looking at. 
So it let's say they have 

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diabetes but they also have an 
ingrown toenail or or hammer toe

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or something else like that. 
And when you need more treatment

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than and the current treatment 
is not that simple, let's say we

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order physical therapy, we order
other types of treatment, we 

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decide on shockwave, we decide 
on something else. 

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Level 4 is more complex or I 
kind of kind of keep it if I'm 

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doing a prescription, so I'm 
doing a a a anti-inflammatory or

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antibiotic or something like 
that or renewing a prescription 

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that's going to be a level 4. 
Or if you're doing like surgical

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discussion what you're tending 
to do prescriptions or planning 

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to do prescriptions at that 
time. 

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So just a simple overview of 
some of the billing things. 

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A benign lesion excision, which 
is like removing a wart. 

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This is an example of a wart 
where we would numb it up with 

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anesthetic, with epinephrine so 
there's no bleeding and then we 

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would excise that. 
That could be anything else. 

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Many times for excisions, we'll 
use in a Mira gel post op kit. 

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Post op kits can be used not 
just on ingrown toenails, they 

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can be used for like wart 
removals. 

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They can be used for 
matrixectomies. 

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They can be used for other 
wounds that aren't that deep. 

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I tend to send anything we take 
out of the body like a lesion. 

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I'll tend to send a pathology. 
The only times I wouldn't, let's

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say they're like a self paid 
patient and they would have to 

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pay for that pathology 
evaluation which can tend to be 

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expensive and then we'll do a 
two week follow up for them. 

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Here's an excision in nail and 
nail matrix which we call a nail

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matrixectomy. 
That's what this is called. 

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It's used for chronic ingrown 
toenails. 

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Someone has a chronic issue, 
they might have swelling on the 

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side or they might just have 
callous buildup. 

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What we do is we take out the 
edge and we put a chemical which

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is in our office, sodium 
hydroxide and and then that 

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doesn't grow back. 
It's used to remove the side of 

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the nail or even the entire nail
if they don't like it due to a 

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fungal nail. 
The common complications are 

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infection, which is quite rare. 
It's not really that common. 

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So I always tell patients 
there's going to be redness, 

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there's going to be swelling 
down at the base and they're a 

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spicule can happen. 
This isn't a spicule. 

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So spicule is a piece of nail 
that grows back after a 

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matrixectomy because it didn't 
work completely and you can 

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remove that again and do another
matrixectomy on there. 

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We tend to do a two to 
three-week follow up when if 

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you're less busy you can do 2-2 
or four week. 

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If you're busier you can do one 
at 3 weeks. 

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OK. 
And then we also can have 

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patient text us a number if they
have concerns. 

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This is an example of an 
exostectomy. 

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An exostectomy is an area of 
bone, usually it's between the 

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4th and 5th digits where it's 
kind of macerated and there's 

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pain in there usually due to a 
bone spur. 

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And the treatment for this 
certainly is spacers, wider 

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shoes. 
But then if that doesn't work we

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we we shave down the bone. 
So you would shave down the bone

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on the side. 
We usually use a metallic marker

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when we get an X-ray for this to
determine where the bone is. 

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And then you would put a, you 
would just make a little 

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incision on top or at the tip 
and you would use the rasp to go

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in there and shave that down. 
And then that would kind of 

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resolve that. 
You can't get it wet for two 

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weeks because there's a stitch 
in there or a couple stitches 

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and it's going to shave down the
prominent bone. 

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And we usually do a two week 
follow up whenever there's 

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stitches and there might be a 
normal shoes or a surgical shoe 

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after that example of a foreign 
body removal. 

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Once again this is if there's a 
non infected one such as like 

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glass can be hair, a little 
Pebble, a needle. 

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You may or may not need 
anesthesia depending. 

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Consider anaesthesia with 
epinephrine so you can see it 

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better. 
I tend to use we're getting 

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X-rays once again like a 
metallic marker. 

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You put a metallic marker 
because you can see if there's 

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anything underneath there. 
A lot of times you can't see it 

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with an X-ray so you may have to
do an ultrasound to help you see

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better and then tends to be a 
two week follow up. 

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If there's an infection you 
would use an antibiotic. 

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This is an infected foreign body
or just an Abscess. 

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This tends to be a little bit 
more difficult. 

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You would have to open it up 
with an incision, so you'd have 

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to numb that up as well. 
You would flush it out and you 

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would give patients an 
antibiotic. 

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Many times we would take a 
culture as well. 

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If we can't get all of it or if 
we want to know what type of 

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antibiotic to guide that, if 
it's large or deep, you would 

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put them in a surgical shoe and 
then you would use the the post 

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op kit afterwards. 
Fracture Care is is just a 

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tight, it's more of a billing 
thing, but when we see someone 

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with a with a fracture you can 
do this. 

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So with fracture Care it's, it's
more of a billing issue. 

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So if there's a fracture in the 
foot or the metatarsal or 

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somewhere else, it increases the
billing initially. 

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But then at the follow up visits
you don't do office visits, you 

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only do X-rays unless there's a 
new condition. 

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So if we see something like a 
stress fracture or there's a 

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fracture many times we'll we'll 
do this and then we'll do a two 

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or four week depending for the 
follow up. 

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And then if there's like a 
plantar fasciitis that develops 

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something else then you could 
build that. 

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But normally you're you have a a
longer what's called a global 

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period in between this fracture 
care hardware removal. 

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We don't do this that often in 
the office. 

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Occasionally we'll take out a a 
little screw. 

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We used to do it more, but this 
is an example of a little screw 

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and you would do this with an 
X-ray and you would just put a a

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guide wire down there and pull 
out that screw. 

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We don't do it all that often. 
You put a couple of sutures in 

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there. 
The most common ones we used to 

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use were FRS but that tended to 
strip in the office so it made a

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little bit hard. 
There's osteo Med works a little

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bit easier because it has a 
different head of the of the 

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screw. 
So occasionally we'll do that 

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depending on patient's 
preference hematoma or incision 

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and drainage of of of blood 
underneath the nail, it can be 

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used to drain this hematoma. 
Sometimes the nail will come off

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and the entire nail can be 
evolved. 

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When or evolving a nail, we tend
to put some nonstick dressing on

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top of it because it really 
hurts to pull it off if it 

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sticks on there. 
And with these we also want to 

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check many times with an X-ray 
to see if there's any fracture 

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amnio injection. 
So amnio injections are used to 

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help speed up healing of chronic
tissue injury, very similar to 

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where the shockwave is done, but
it can be used in areas that 

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aren't typical for cortisone. 
So for example, the plantar 

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fascia, you can use cortisone, 
but the Achilles tendon you 

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can't and so this would be an 
area you could do it on the 

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Achilles that's safe. 
I tend to immobilize the 

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patients in a walking group for 
three to five days after I do an

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amnio just because it's it's 
kind of a not because of the 

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procedure but because it's such 
an expensive treatment to put 

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inside there. 
And I I typically use in 

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conjunction with shockwaves. 
So not by itself I will do let 

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us say 3 shockwaves and at the 
second visit I will do amnio. 

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Currently we are using right via
flow and you can expand it 3 to 

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1. 
So what that means is if you 

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have a, they come in at half 
CCS. 

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So you would do half CCS of 
amnio and then you would do, I 

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tend to do 1.5 CCS of saline and
then a half CC of Marcaine. 

448
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,680
OK. 
So it expands into two CC's 

449
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,240
total or about. 
Yeah. 

450
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,160
So I think it's one CC, Yeah, 
one CC is saline and half and a 

451
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half CC of Markane for a little 
bit of numbing in there. 

452
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,800
The way I word it to patients is
I say it helps stimulate your 

453
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,520
own stem cells to speed up 
healing and it's safer than 

454
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,080
cortisone. 
That's kind of how I, I word it.

455
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:51,360
To the to the patients and 
meditations, they just they want

456
00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:53,520
what's best, right. 
That's what our patients 

457
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,560
sometimes want. 
And so we can we can offer that 

458
00:22:55,560 --> 00:23:00,320
we can offer Shockwave and and 
the amnio as well cortisone 

459
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injections. 
We still use cortisone. 

460
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,960
It can be used for fascia tendon
joints usually between 1:00 and 

461
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,640
3:00 CCS. 
We pre drop here in the office 3

462
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,000
CCS for for our patients in case
we need it. 

463
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,480
You might not have to use the 
whole thing like in certain 

464
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,280
joints that are smaller you 
can't use the whole thing. 

465
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,280
Sometimes patients can develop 
it called a steroid flare 

466
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,720
reaction and I always tell them 
about that. 

467
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,720
It might get red, it might get 
swollen because it's a formed 

468
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,480
substance in your body that 
you're not used to. 

469
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:31,760
It's very effective for patients
that have a gout flare up. 

470
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,960
Be careful if there's any signs 
of infection though. 

471
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:40,080
It's not typically done in the 
Achilles region and it's and 

472
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,440
also we don't usually use it and
the MPJS. 

473
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,600
So 1st and 2nd MPJ, third MPJ 
because it can cause weakening 

474
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,560
of the tissue and like hammer 
toe formation, sometimes I will 

475
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:54,320
do it if if I put them in a 
walking boot or if I just warn 

476
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:55,760
them and there's nothing else 
that they want. 

477
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,640
They don't want anything else or
if they've tried other things, 

478
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,840
just be really careful you're 
going to because you could cause

479
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,560
weakening or hammer toe or 
plantar plate tear or things 

480
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,440
like that. 
It's commonly done with 

481
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,560
ultrasound guidance and in our 
hands. 

482
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,960
Now in the office we tend to do 
less cortisone because we have 

483
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,120
the shockwave treatment and we 
tend not. 

484
00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:18,880
Every patients always ask this 
how many, how many injections 

485
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,840
can I have? 
We tend to do no more than three

486
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,000
injections in any location per 
year. 

487
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,880
So they can have three in the 
knee, three in the back, three 

488
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,720
in the foot, like 3 in the heel,
three in the big toe joint. 

489
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,240
They can have three anywhere. 
Sometimes you can do more, but 

490
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,320
you just have to be careful if 
you do too many of them. 

491
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:38,320
Another area that we inject with
cortisone is the neuroma and you

492
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,680
evaluate for the molder sign. 
That's just where you squish the

493
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:43,280
foot and it causes a clicking 
motion. 

494
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:47,280
Patients tend to say they have a
a fullness feeling or they're 

495
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:52,000
walking on a bunched up sock. 
Injection can be done with an 

496
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,680
ultrasound and then you kind of 
inject that area, that little 

497
00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,680
bulb that you can see right 
here, two to three CC's of 

498
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,480
cortisone. 
If you're doing an ultrasound 

499
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,960
you tend not to use as much 
because you can get it directly 

500
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,960
into the area. 
So we say like a drop is the 

501
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,360
same as a gallon, if you can get
it in the right spot you don't 

502
00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:13,000
need as much and we tend to do a
two week follow up for these 

503
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,760
neuroma injections, other 
tendons that can be injected as 

504
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,560
well. 
This is an example at the base 

505
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,280
of the fifth metatarsal where 
the injection or the insertion 

506
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,240
of the Pronius Brevis is. 
This is an ultrasound, you can 

507
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,120
see the inflammation. 
It can be done in any painful 

508
00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:27,880
tendon, but once again you have 
to be careful for tendon 

509
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,920
weakening. 
You might want to immobilize 

510
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,440
them in a walking boot or place 
an UNA boot around the area to 

511
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,080
rest it and typically done with 
ultrasound to see the area of 

512
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,440
damaged tissue and you have to 
discuss the risks of rupture. 

513
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,080
And also the other option would 
be the shockwave which we tend 

514
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,640
to do more so now than the 
cortisone. 

515
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,000
Things that we don't do that 
often, but I just want to talk 

516
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,920
quickly about injection of 
scars. 

517
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,920
So some patients come in with 
really painful scars. 

518
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:59,440
We can inject those painful or 
keloid scars with cortisone. 

519
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,320
Don't do it all that much. 
There are other things that you 

520
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:08,600
can use like silicone tape, 
something called skarguard and 

521
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,760
other treatments include laser 
treatment which we'll talk about

522
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,640
a little bit later that can 
reduce the thickness and the the

523
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,200
color in the area. 
And I kind of think of scars 

524
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,360
similar to a plantar fibromas 
which are those big lumps in the

525
00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:22,640
bottom of the foot. 
They're kind of treated the same

526
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,440
way because they're 
proliferation of tissue 

527
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:31,040
keratomas or just callousing. 
We trim them with A-15 blade. 

528
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,640
If there's bleeding underneath 
it, you have to be aware because

529
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:40,280
normally the bleeding makes it 
an ulcer, so that would be it. 

530
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,720
And be careful between the toes.
You could also have issues and 

531
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,200
recommend We tend to recommend a
callus cream and a pumice, so 

532
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,600
patients are going to pumice in 
the shower and then use the 

533
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,240
callus cream after one with 
padding. 

534
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,600
And many times they'll do 
orthotics and things like that. 

535
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,440
And if there's fissure fissures 
skin, we'll use sleep and heel. 

536
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,840
So fissures are on the back. 
We'll use that sleep and heel 

537
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,120
callus cream and other things 
like that.

