2023-07-28 03:04
The ‘Bauer Bump’ was a new word I only recently heard about and wrote here about it. The Bauer Bump is a haglund’s deformity that becomes painful in ice skates and Bauer ar… Read More
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A podiatrist blogs about his views on foot biomechanics and clinical issues.
2023-02-03 10:24
This is an interesting one. According to a search engine keyword tool, the phrase ‘severs disease in adults‘ is searched for up to 700 times a month! That is 700 people looking f… Read More
2023-01-07 01:48
This was a question I got from a colleague. I get a lot a questions from colleagues, but not usually on that topic. Typically the questions are something like, which prefabricated foot ortho… Read More
2022-05-31 08:27
…or cuboid notch or cuboid pad or cuboid raise or cuboid elevation or Denton modification or Feehery modification or … it comes by many names. As well as having many names it i… Read More
2022-04-09 05:14
I think most of us have heard of the ‘too many toes sign’. This is when there are more than a few of the toes are visible on the lateral side due to an abduction of the forefoot… Read More
2022-03-21 22:15
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2022-01-04 01:33
2021-08-20 21:15
In the early days of the Clinical Biomechanics Boot Camps we spent a lot of time on the supination resistance test and the concept of supination resistance, as the concept was so new to so m… Read More
2021-07-07 22:37
I hope no one from parkrun reads this!
The parkrun is a weekly 5k run held in over 2000 locations at 8AM on a Saturday morning all over the world (COVID restrictions permitting). I have r… Read More
2021-07-06 02:18
Within physiotherapy there has been a big trend to distinguish between active and passive treatments with the general considerations that active treatments are better and the evidence does g… Read More
2021-07-03 21:50
What should it be called? I have long been part of the school that thinks we should be sticking with the posterior tibial tendon dysfunction name as that is the one that has mostly stuck and… Read More
2021-06-29 02:21
With all the travel I used to do for the Clinical Biomechanics Boot Camps I took to having ‘bacon and eggs’ for breakfast once in every city I visited and posting a photo on Face… Read More
2021-06-29 01:31
In my hands peroneal tendinopathy or tendonitis used to be a challenge. In the past I reckon I was close to a 100% failure rate in managing it. In the last 10 or so years I think I am now cl… Read More
2021-06-26 22:11
In social media, everyone is an expert on this. Opinions vary, but facts don’t, but all so often those opinions are being stated in the ignorance of the actual research evidence.
I… Read More
2021-06-24 21:57
I am a big fan of teaching people how to measure the navicular drift and drop. However, the evidence is that for clinical use they are not that reliable, so that does limit the usefulness of… Read More
2021-06-20 21:00
I think we all know that the range of motion of the ankle joint is important for normal function. I have made no secret of how useful I think the lunge test is in evaluating that ankle joint… Read More
2021-06-18 03:14
Fluoroquinolones are antibiotics that are commonly used to treat a variety of illnesses such as respiratory and urinary tract infections, with ciprofloxacin and delafloxacin being the most c… Read More
2021-06-15 04:05
Functional hallux limitus is a theoretical construct. There is no doubt that the phenomenon that is functional hallux limitus exists, but that can often be as far any any agreement or consen… Read More
2021-06-10 19:28
Concussion is in the news a lot lately and protocols for their acute management have become stricter in most sports as more is known about the long term consequences of repeat concussions. F… Read More
2021-06-07 06:46
This is a common topic I write about often. I wrote here about just how much I learnt about the condition when my own daughter got it and just how much that subsequently influenced my manage… Read More
2021-06-03 02:32
We call them “thongs” in Australia. The Archies footwear come with an arch support built into them. We sell Archies in our clinic in Melbourne and they sell well. Pretty much eve… Read More
2021-06-01 06:06
I talk a lot during the Clinical Biomechanics Boot Camps about many different design features that get used in foot orthotics such as the MOSI, the Kinetic Wedge and the Cluffy Wedge to name… Read More
2021-05-29 21:47
One big thing I get from running the Clinical Biomechanics Boot Camps is the feedback that I get when clinicians change their clinical practice based on what I teach on the course and its wo… Read More
2021-05-28 21:53
So much of the use of foot orthotics is based on compromises. The ideal foot orthotic and the ideal foot orthotic prescription is often modified away from that ideal to take into account the… Read More
2021-05-25 21:59
This is one of those pet peeves and annoyances. Arthur Lydiard was probably one of the greatest or most influential distance running coaches. I often see his name used in many ways and miss… Read More
2021-05-23 20:14
It may be somewhat voyeuristic, but I periodically head over to YouTube to check out if there are any new videos of athletes getting an Achilles tendon rupture. They hurt you to watch them… Read More
2021-05-23 07:10
There is no doubt that Abebe Bikila is a legend. He was a late selection for the Ethiopian team for the marathon at the 1960 Rome Olympics. Because of his late inclusion the teams sponsor, A… Read More
2021-05-20 05:13
The abductory twist is an observation that is frequently made during a gait analysis. Just recently I have started to notice a common terminology issue and I am somewhat confused if they are… Read More
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