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New Research Shows Collaborative Care for Plantar Heel Pain Leads to Long-Term Savings and Better Outcomes

A multi-year study led by Shane McClinton, P.T., D.P.T., Ph.D., shows that combining physical therapy with standard podiatry care for plantar heel pain improves patients’ quality of life while also cutting long-term health care costs.

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Shane McClinton works with a patient during a physical therapy session.

DMU Professor Co-Authors Visual Atlas of the Human Skeleton from Birth to Adulthood

With the recent publication of “A Visual Atlas of Skeletal Growth and Development,” Heather Garvin, Ph.D., D-ABFA, professor of anatomy at Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences, is helping provide a much-needed resource for students and practitioners in anatomy, biological anthropology, human biology and health sciences.

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