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HEALTHBEAT SHOW NOTES .... Episode #80 - Recorded January 19, 2007

Hello 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 Look At –  

• Plain X-Ray Films to Detect Knee Osteolytic Lesions

• Company Clinics Cut Health Costs

• Chiropractic Conference

• Rehab for Whiplash

• And Finally, Health Corner will look at a new discovery within the Stem Cell area

For HealthBeat, This is Dr. Todd Eglow.

Welcome to HealthBeat Podcast #80, recorded January 19, 2007.  HealthBeat is Chiropractic OnLine Today’s radio program, providing current news and commentary about Chiropractic and Health.

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Plain X-Ray Films to Detect Knee Osteolytic Lesions

A study was conducted to determine the accuracy of plain radiography in detecting osteolytic lesions around total knee prostheses compared to multi-detector computed tomography (CT).

Thirty-one patients diagnosed with periprosthetic osteolysis by multi-detector CT after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) were studied. Computed tomography for each patient was retrospectively reviewed in a blinded fashion. The plain radiographs for each patient that had been obtained prior to CT were reviewed in the same manner.

The results discovered that the multi-detector CT detected 48 lesions in 31 knees: 40 tibial lesions, 4 femoral lesions, and 4 patellar lesions. Radiographic diagnosis was made in 6 of the 40 tibial lesions, 2 of the 4 femoral lesions, and 0 of the 4 patellar lesions.

The study concluded that Plain radiographs are inadequate for evaluating periprosthetic osteolysis in TKA with only 8 (17%) of 48 lesions detected by multi-detector CT visible on the standard radiographs. Multi-detector CT provides the surgeon with a diagnostic and preoperative planning tool when osteolysis is suspected.

For more information, surf to our Show Notes - http://www.orthosupersite.com/default.asp?page=view&rid=18850

Company Clinics Cut Health Costs

According to the NY Times, frustrated by runaway health costs, the nation’s largest employers are moving rapidly to open more primary care medical centers in their offices and factories as a way to offer convenient service and free or low-cost health care.

Within the last two years, companies including Toyota, Sprint Nextel, Florida Power and Light, Credit Suisse and Pepsi Bottling Group have opened or expanded on-site clinics. And many employers are adding or planning to add even more clinics, which were experimented with about 30 years ago but fell out of favor amid questions about their cost-effectiveness.

Today a new wave of clinics is opening, driven largely by a motive that was less of a factor in the past: employers’ desires to reduce their health insurance premiums by taking care of workers before they need to see outside doctors. More than 100 of the nation’s 1,000 largest employers now offer on-site primary care or preventive health services — a number forecast to exceed 250 by the end of the year.

For employers, on-site clinics can mean gains in worker productivity and lower health-insurance outlays.

For more information, surf to our Show Notes - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/business/14clinic.html?hp&ex=1168837200&en=7ea7bdaeae1afb75&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Chiropractic Conference

Doctors of Chiropractic and others are invited to submit original research for presentation at the World Federation of Chiropractic’s and Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research’s International Conference on Chiropractic Research (ICCR), part of the WFC’s 9th Biennial Congress to be held May 17-19, 2007 at the Tivoli Marinotel, in Portugal.

Approximately 100 papers will be given platform (32) and poster (68) presentation. There are awards of $7,000 (the Scott Haldeman prize), $4,000 and $2,500 for best research papers and $1,500 for the best paper from a clinician in private practice.

Categories include:

• Basic Sciences

• Diagnostic Sciences

• Clinical Management

• Special Interest

The deadline for abstract submission is – January 31, 2007.

For more information, contact Robin R. Merrifield, ICCR Coordinator, at FCERedit@aol.com

Rehab for Whiplash

A study in the January 1, 2007 issue of the journal Spine, looked at a government policy of funding community and hospital-based fitness training and multidisciplinary rehabilitation for whiplash.

Although insurance benefits commonly include rehabilitation for whiplash, its effectiveness is unknown.

The study found no evidence to support the effectiveness of a population-based program of fitness training and multidisciplinary rehabilitation for whiplash. Rehabilitation programs should be tested in randomized trials before being recommended to injured populations.

For more information, surf to our Show Notes for a link to this study - http://www.spinejournal.com/pt/re/spine/abstract.00007632-200701010-00020.htm;jsessionid=FqnhPDvNmPX1qVyvlMFDpyPP8lFBQLbchghMSpVSF1PY3ydGp9nM!2118075020!-949856145!8091!-1

Health Corner –In this edition of HealthBeat’s Health Corner, we present a story from PBS’s NewsHour, concerning the apparent discovery of a new form of Stem Cells.

You can surf to our Show Notes for a link to the video replay –

http://pbs-newshour.onstreammedia.com/cgi-bin/visearch?user=pbs-newshour&template=template.html&query=stem+cell&keywords=stem+cell&category=blank&submit.x=58&submit.y=8&submit=Search

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