Boots Are Made For Walking … But shoes are made for queuing! [Kindly sent in by John Reeves] Family Feet Business I once heard the true story of a family firm that cornered the feet market. One brother sold shoes, each shoe had a hidden fatal flaw. As a direct result, the victim’...
The patient should be advised to elevate the legs 7 in (18 cm) above the heart for 2 to 4 hr during the day and night. Ankle flexion and extension, and slow walking also help manage ulcers. Compression devices, (such as graduated pressure stockings or Unna boots) are used to reduce sw...
Unna boots are considered medically necessary DME when used after ankle sprains and other soft tissue injuries. Unna boots are considered experimental, investigational, or unproven when used after ankle fractures, or when used in chronically unstable ankles or to prevent re-injury because of a lack ...
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Everything takes seven times as long as it should. Interruptions abound. (Today’s interruption was having to take a 45-minute detour to the shoe store to buy snow boots for my child whose perfectly good snow boots are suddenly too small.) Minor but essential activities (cleaning the counter...
I’m not walking around so much and we don’t have stairs at home. About 8 months or so ago, the pool opened up for water walking and lap swimming – with lots of rules, of course, but I manage to go about 3 times a week. Often DH goes with me. Unfortunately, the hot tub is...
Boots/shoe covers RespiratorsFactors that influence the selection of appropriate PPE include:Type of exposure anticipated: Blood or body fluid splash/spray vs. touch Contact with minimal bleeding/drainage/body substances Contact with large-volume bleeding/drainage/body substances that are likely to soak...
must not alow things like security protocols to be “baked in” [1] such that people are walking around with vulnerable equipment in their chest for the rest of their lives. Clive Robinson –Except that may allow “on the fly” updates that aren’t very nice. Reality says there’s a fu...
“walk around with your boots in the mud” as one participant described. And thirdly, almost all the participants described the importance of being connected with people who can serve as a sounding board and inspiration when one has to make difficult decisions. They can either be of the ...
Trench foot and frostbite began to take their toll too. I was still wearing leather jump boots, some men had the double-buckle version, but the leather would get wet. That’s when we teamed up taking off boots and socks, wringing out socks and rubbing one another’s feet for 10 minutes...