2023-12-15 20:30
I really do not get this one, perhaps someone can explain it to me. Haglund’s deformity (pump bump, retrocalcaneal exostosis, Bauer bump, etc) is an enlargement of the bone at the back… Read More
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A podiatrist takes a skeptical and critical look at relevant information.
2023-07-26 00:40
Hot on the previous topic of beetroot juice for chilblains, we have now got eggplants as an option! Or have we? Some new research recently crossed my screen on “Antichilblain Component… Read More
2023-03-11 05:37
It easy to come across recommendations that urine therapy should be used to treat chilblains with lots of references to “my mum” or “my grandma” used to use it and sw… Read More
2023-02-03 08:57
No. Of course its doesn’t. Its a disorder of the calcaneal growth plate that can not happen after the teenager stops growing as that growth plate merges with the rest of the calcaneus… Read More
2022-10-30 06:21
We all have seen those photos of swimmers at the Olympics with bruises all over their bodies and wondered, “whaaaaaaaaaat?”. It is an alleged therapeutic technique known as cuppi… Read More
2022-08-19 03:01
One of my favorite reads from a few years ago (2017) was ‘The Athletes Dilemma’ by John Weston and I just re-read sections of it. Anyone who is working with athletes needs to rea… Read More
2021-11-29 00:46
The bottom line is that supplements only work if there is a deficiency. If you take in any more than the body needs, the body just excretes it or stores it and it makes no difference except… Read More
2021-05-19 06:41
I was doing some digging around Amazon.com to see what sorts of products people are buying for the self-care of their foot problems and this one for Sever’s disease stuck out like a so… Read More
2021-01-28 21:23
I am far from being any sort of infectious disease, emergency medicine or pharmacology expert and way out of my lane on this one, but if ‘Karen from Facebook’ can have a view, th… Read More
2020-11-20 05:06
I have been doing my weekly update on research and views for a few years now and you start to see patterns in the research and the literature. One that really stood out like a sore thumb was… Read More
2020-10-23 21:07
It is disappointing to feel the need to write about ‘Grounding’ or ‘Earthing’ again. I have done it before here and here. Many others have done the same as it is grea… Read More
2020-08-17 01:10
I have previously written on all my clinical work, research and teaching experiences with calcaneal apophysitis and just how much I realised I did not know and just how much I learnt when my… Read More
2020-08-01 01:25
Concussions have always had a particular interest for me. The politics around concussion in sport and the alleged cover-ups and the significant public health consequences have long been a fa… Read More
2020-05-18 04:37
Chilblains are generally not that responsive to treatment with most interventions having some effect, but no one intervention really curing them or having any great consistent affect. Lots o… Read More
2019-09-24 03:32
Some people must think some people are really stupid. I recently screen shot some pictures posted on a website that have now been taken down. They must think that people really are stupid. I… Read More
2019-05-31 00:15
This is a topic that I have blogged about so many times, but it came up for me with a patient I looked at a few weeks ago. The previous posts included topics like: But…but…it w… Read More
2019-05-28 21:08
Here in Australia most professional sports teams have in place a salary cap regulated by the sports governing body. This means that they can only spend a fixed amount on players. In other co… Read More
2018-12-24 20:39
There seems to be increasing advocacy for the use of cannabis oil (medical marijuana) for plantar fasciitis recently, mostly from what I can see, from those who sell it. If you hang out in s… Read More
2018-11-30 07:19
During this morning live broadcast on Facebook of PodChatLive (and its on YouTube) we were discussing paediatric flatfoot and paediatric foot orthoses with Helen Banwell, a question from cam… Read More
2018-09-25 22:24
I have to be honest and admit that the use of platelet rich plasma (PRP) for plantar fasciitis is something that I have had no more than a superficial interest in. I pretty much scanned the… Read More
2018-08-03 05:08
Today, Google scholar came out with their 2018 update to their ranking metrics. No point in me re-litigating what Google says about them, so read Google info. The rankings are not without so… Read More
2018-06-05 04:32
Been a busy week. As part of my Online Boot Camp course’s, I do a weekly update of the week that was. Thought I would share the one I did this morning with everyone. You get free acces… Read More
2018-06-04 05:09
When you are busy and have so much important stuff to write about, it is so much easier to go after the ‘low hanging fruit’. Much less effort is needed and when it so easy, you d… Read More
2018-05-29 04:58
The concept of foot orthotic dosing is something that has been bubbling away under the surface for a long time now, but for some reason, not a lot of noise gets made about it, or when noise… Read More
2018-02-23 02:40
What does apple cider debunking, overpronation and cigarette smoking, Oscon supplements for Severs disease and vaccines causing autism have to do with each other? ^^^ that is the final slide… Read More
2017-12-26 02:13
Any publication with the title of A Novel Treatment Approach to Over-Pronation Dysfunction is going to get my attention, mostly because of the nonsensical understanding of “overpronati… Read More
2017-09-12 04:35
The whole idea of the peer review process prior to publication is to weed out the junk, so it does not get published. One thing that the alternative therapies have in common is that their jo… Read More
2017-08-31 05:14
Time for some shameless self-promotion. I have been running my online Clinical Biomechanics Boot Camp since last year (you can enrol and start it at any time). It has been very popular and i… Read More
2017-08-27 04:10
I have managed to get myself into a few spats in social media lately over the results of the Rathleff et al (2014) study on loading programs for plantar fasciitis mainly because I think the… Read More
2017-05-31 04:43
One probably should not laugh at another’s misfortune, but sometimes it can just not be helped. For those unfamiliar with it, schadenfreude is the German word for just that. There is n… Read More
2017-04-12 01:51
The whole ‘natural cures’ industry is a scam. Just because something is natural does not make it better. Arsenic is natural. Ionizing radiation is natural. Neither of them… Read More
2017-03-26 02:28
This is not foot related, but it is diabetes related and science related. I have no doubts what-so-ever about climate change and global warming. All the science I have seen is good; the cons… Read More
2017-03-04 23:23
I am having a bad weekend commenting on bad research. There were these two dumb studies on Homeopathy for Heel Spurs and this one on the non-existent anterior metatarsal arch. In the Clinica… Read More
2017-02-15 19:21
Just put together a video for the Clinical Biomechanics Boot Camp on ‘Clinical Practice Can be Deceptive’ wrestling with an issue I can’t quite get my head around. Sometime… Read More
2017-02-13 01:07
Homeopathy does not work and can not work. The evidence is clear; and there is plenty of that evidence. It is no better than a placebo. Any ‘clinical’ effect of it is due to that… Read More
2017-01-21 21:39
Conferences presentations and in the conference abstract books there are often gems and lots of pearls of useful information. I often blog live from conferences (eg here and here) or peruse… Read More
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