Medical News Readers - PRWeb Press Release Group http://www.rsspad.com/rss2/2957.xml Medical News Readers - Powered by PRWeb and RSSPad en xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 Physical Therapy Doctor and Head Injury Survivor Uses Experiences to Write New Book: Temporomandibular Joint Disorders: One Name for Two Diagnoses http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1207114.htm Out of Alaska comes Dr. Catherine Mormile, a new leader in health care with her bold, new book, which explains that temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD) are really one word for two diagnoses. One diagnosis, joint TMD presents with measurable structural damage to the cartilage, bones, and ligaments of the joint itself. The other, muscular TMD, presents as a painful condition of the muscles involved in chewing, and often involving the muscles of the scalp, base of neck, and shoulders. With a background of stubbornly surviving near-death on the Iditarod Trail, academic excellence, and scientific inquiry, Dr. Mormile now offers her one-of-a-kind way of thinking and approach to the nagging problem of TMD to all. (PRWeb Aug 14, 2008)

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]]> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1207114.htm With Physical Therapy Medicare Reimbursement Capped at $1,740, a Challenge to Physical Therapy to Step Up Health Promotion Strategies http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/01/prweb326880.htm Catherine Mormile, DPT, owner of Mormile Physical Therapy, Anchorage, Alaska explains that because Congress adjourned December 22 without completing work on a budget reconciliation bill (S. 1932), allowing the current moratorium on the Medicare therapy cap to expire December 31, 2005, beginning January 1, 2006 millions of Medicare recipients will be subject to implementation of a cap limiting physical therapy services to $1,740. As a result Dr. Mormile believes that to ensure proper health care for all Medicare recipients, physical therapy health promotional interventions and strategies must be implemented. She offers several methods to help Medicare patients obtain these goals in the face of shrinking Federal reimbursement dollars. (PRWeb Jan 1, 2006)

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]]> Sun, 01 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/01/prweb326880.htm Temporomandibular Joint Disorders (TMD) : One Name for Two Diagnoses http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/02/prweb206103.htm In article published in a recent issue of the Alaska Journal of Commerce, Catherine Mormile, DPT explains that the term temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD), a disorder that affects nearly 10 million Americans and four times more women than men is really the same name for two distinct diagnoses that affect the temporomandibular "joint" and the temporomandibular "muscles". Failure to understand this distinction may lead to confusion and misunderstanding of this disorder by patient and clinician alike. In her article, Dr. Mormile attempts to alleviates confusion by describing both diagnoses. (PRWeb Feb 13, 2005)

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