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  • Inquiry re: dynamic plantar foot pressures

    Greetings Biomechers!

    We presently have a 5 CCD (50Hz) camera Oxford Metrics VICON system, 10
    channel surface EMG (Motion Lab Systems), and 2 AMTI tri-axial force
    platforms, with a PDP 11/73 for data acquisition, PC AMASS (on a 486DX2/66)
    for marker trajectory calculation,
    and use the Helen Hayes software (on the RSX system) for plotting.

    We are also interested in evaluating dynamic plantar foot pressures,
    using some system such as the AMTI PressMap (tm), or the like.
    We have a large population of diabetic foot patients,
    and the orthopaedists, orthotists, and internal medicine specialists
    at our facility are very interested in developing such a service.

    THE QUESTIONS ARE:
    Has anyone out there had (good/bad) experience with any one of these foot
    pressure systems?
    Which ones would you recommend?
    Is it really important to be able to superimpose your ground reaction force
    data (i.e. mount the mat on a force platform and locate it in the VICON 3D
    coordinate system ),
    or should that _not_ be a limiting factor? ( just attaching the mat to the
    plantar surface of the foot, barefoot or with a foot orthosis)?

    What sort of billing (CPT) codes do you use?
    How is reimbursement from insurance companies/DSCC/DPA for this service?
    How much time do you spend per patient: for the visit, data processing,
    analysis and reporting?

    Any info would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks in advance,

    Steve : )

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    Stephen W. Hill, B.Sc.
    Kinesiologist/Administrative Director
    SIU Motion Analysis Laboratory (1420)
    Instructor of Clinical Surgery
    Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
    751 North Rutledge Street
    Lower Level, Suite 0300
    Springfield, IL 62702 USA
    phone: (217) 782-6556
    fax: (217) 782-7323
    e-mail: shill@surg800.siumed.edu
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