Selected Physicians Are Nominated Through Industry Peer-Review Surveys

April 2010 — Phoenix, AZ: Dr. Richard Jacoby, DPM, Medical Director of the Scottsdale Neuropathy Institute and Valley Foot Surgeons, has been named by PHOENIX Magazine as one of its Top Doctors for 2010. The magazine’s 340-page April edition identifies 689 top physicians in 44 specialties, including podiatrists, medical doctors, osteopathic doctors, and naturopathic doctors.

The Top Doctors list is in its 16th year. The selection process starts over each year with random surveys of 5,000 Valley physicians, asking doctors to nominate peers they believe are the best in their fields.

Once the surveys are tabulated, PHOENIX Magazine verifies each doctor’s contact information. They are cross-checked with Arizona’s medical boards to ensure that each physician has maintained an excellent record.

“I am honored to be selected by PHOENIX Magazine for this particular distinction,” Jacoby said. “It is even more rewarding because the process begins with a nomination from my fellow medical professionals and colleagues.”

The April 2010 issue is available at newsstands Valleywide. Dr. Jacoby is presented in a Physician Profile and a directory listing. A two-page Q/A feature discusses his expertise in the highly specialized Dellon Decompression surgical technique to reduce amputations in patients suffering from diabetic neuropathy. Dr. Jacoby is widely regarded by his peers as one of the top podiatrists and foot and ankle surgeons in the U.S., and is one of only 350 doctors worldwide to have trained with Dr. A. Lee Dellon at the Dellon Institutes for Peripheral Nerve Surgery. He has successfully treated more than 700 diabetic patients facing lower limb amputations in the last eight years. With a goal of reducing unnecessary amputations, Dr. Jacoby has been researching and utilizing new methods of treating patients who suffer in the lower extremity.

Dr. Jacoby is also one of five doctor profiles featured on the magazine’s website:

www.phoenixmag.com/top-docs/articles/201004/richard-jacoby--d-p-m-/

Preliminary Findings of Breakthrough Study Show Promising Link Between Reduced Blood Flow and Amputations

Phoenix, AZ, February 19, 2010 — Dr. Richard Jacoby, DPM, of the Scottsdale Neuropathy Institute, will present the preliminary findings of a ground breaking blood flow study to the International Congress XXIII during its annual meeting February 28 through March 4 at Scottsdale’s Phoenician Resort.

‘The Neurovascular Evaluation of the Triple Nerve Release

500 million years ago: – 1st appearance of endothelium

1 million years ago : – Boyd Eaton

300 B.C. : – Erasistratus: The Air-Pneuma theory

200 A.D. : – Galen blood theory

1616 : – Harvey, Theory of Circulation: Metaphor, the circle

1664 : - Thomas Willis: The Circle of Willis

1794: - Atwan Lavoisier : Nitroglycerin

1850 : – Jean Charcot: Neuropathic Principle of Arthropathy

1866 : – Alfred Nobel: Invention of Dynamite/Nitroglycerin with diatomaceous earth

1970 : – Endothelial Relaxing Factor: Murad

1972 : – McComas and Upton: Double Crush

1982 : – Dellon: Multiple Crush Syndrome

1998 : – Murad, Ignarro and Furchgott

2005 : – Cooke: ADMA

2009 : – Vinik: Small Fiber Neuropathy

2009 : – Blau: Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4)

History of Diabetes

The term diabetes (Greek: διαβήτης, diabētēs) was coined by Aretaeus of Cappadocia. It was derived from the Greek verb διαβαίνειν, diabaínein, itself formed from the prefix dia-, "across, apart," and the verb bainein, "to walk, stand." The verb diabeinein meant "to stride, walk, or stand with legs asunder"; hence, its derivative diabētēs meant "one that straddles," or specifically "a compass, siphon."

The sense "siphon" gave rise to the use of diabētēs as the name for a disease involving the discharge of excessive amounts of urine. Diabetes is first recorded in English, in the form diabete, in a medical text written around 1425. In 1675, Thomas Willis added the word mellitus, from the Latin meaning "honey", a reference to the sweet taste of the urine. This sweet taste had been noticed in urine by the ancient Greeks, Chinese, Egyptians, Indians, and Persians. In 1776, Matthew Dobson confirmed that the sweet taste was because of an excess of a kind of sugar in the urine and blood of people with diabetes.