Featured Gallery
Musculoskeletal News

Rocker Shoes for Plantar Fasciitis

Rocker Shoes for Plantar Fasciitis
A study that was published in Clinical Biomechanics in Sept (2012) investigated the pain levels in people aged 40-65 who had plantar fasciitis. They used a visual analogue pain scale (VAS), the investigated the use of foot orthotics to toning shoes to foot orthotics and toning shoes to see what effect they had on pain in the plantar fasciitis. The best results were with the combined shoe and foot orthotics rather than each treatment on their own. This was only measured in one session and was not followed up over time and the VAS is not the best measure for outcomes of pain in the foot. This...
Podiatry News

Rocker Shoes for Plantar Fasciitis

Rocker Shoes for Plantar Fasciitis
A study that was published in Clinical Biomechanics in Sept (2012) investigated the pain levels in people aged 40-65 who had plantar fasciitis. They used a visual analogue pain scale (VAS), the investigated the use of foot orthotics to toning shoes to foot orthotics and toning shoes to see what effect they had on pain in the plantar fasciitis. The best results were with the combined shoe and foot orthotics rather than each treatment on their own. This was only measured in one session and was not followed up over time and the VAS is not the best measure for outcomes of pain in the foot. This...
Diabetic Foot News

Cracked Skin in Diabetes

Cracked Skin in Diabetes
Cracked heels are a common problem in those who are overweight, have dry callused skin around the heel and wear open heel shoes. Not a lot of attention has been placed to this problem in those with diabetes. A recently published study has investigated superficial and deep fissures in the foot  of those with diabetes and the factors that are associated with them. A total number of 578 patients  with diabetes were assessed.  Superficial fissures was present in 9.0%, and that of deep fissures was present in 3.8%. The presence of superficial fissures was only correlated with autonomic but the presence...
Health News

More than half of Scotland are obese

More than half of Scotland are obese
Data from 2008 was disclosed by Public Health Minister Shona Robison in answer to Tory  questions in parliament show that two-thirds of men and more than half of women in Scotland are overweight. Conservative MSP Jackson Carlaw said the statistics disclosed the true scale of "Scotland's obesity epidemic" and are appalling. Figures for children aged between two and 15 showed that more than a third of boys and a quarter of girls weighed too much. See the full story from the BBC. {openx:164}
Recent Articles

Rocker Shoes for Plantar Fasciitis

Rocker Shoes for Plantar Fasciitis A study that was published in Clinical Biomechanics in Sept (2012) investigated the pain levels in people aged 40-65 who had plantar fasciitis. They used a visual analogue pain scale (VAS), the investigated the use of foot orthotics to toning shoes to foot orthotics and toning shoes to see what effect...

Body weight and the risk for injury

Body weight and the risk for injury Intuitively it could be assumed that those runners with a higher body mass index (BMI) would be at a greater risk of injury. Obesity has a significant impact on the lower limb and biomechanics, so when it comes to running, those with a higher body weight would have a greater load on the structures and...

Kohlers Disease

Kohlers Disease Kohlers disease is a rare disorder that needs to be considered in the differential diagnosis of pain in the midfoot of children aged around 6-9 years. It is an osteochondrosis of the navicular bone causes by the load on the bone and a problem with the vascular supply to the bone. This leads to a flattened...

Cracked Skin in Diabetes

Cracked Skin in Diabetes Cracked heels are a common problem in those who are overweight, have dry callused skin around the heel and wear open heel shoes. Not a lot of attention has been placed to this problem in those with diabetes. A recently published study has investigated superficial and deep fissures in the foot  of those...

Growing Pains

Growing Pains Growing pains in children are common but generally do not cause any significant problems or long term problems. Despite that they can be quite distressing for the child and the parent as they wake the child at night. The definition of a true growing pains in children is pain in the upper part of the...

Lasers for toenail onychomycosis

Lasers for toenail onychomycosis The use of lasers for toenail onychomycosis has led to some debate and discussion (Laser treatment for nail fungus; The PinPointe Laser) on its clinical usefulness, efficacy and the published evidence for its use. There is next to no published evidence for the use of lasers for this and no controlled...

Sinus Tarsi Syndrome

Sinus Tarsi Syndrome This is a painful condition involving the sinus tarsi between the talus and calcaneus. It can be injured as part of an inversion sprain by a strain of the ligaments that cross the sinus tarsi or it can be injured due to an excessively pronated foot compressing structures in the sinus tarsi. Patients...

Severs Disease

Severs Disease Severs disease is probably the most common problem that affects the heel bone in children. It has been likened to a stress fracture of the cartilage in the growth plate at the rear of the calcaneus. It is most common during the ages 10-14 years when the bone is actively growing. The pain is usually present...

Chilblains

Chilblains Chilblains are really common in some parts of the world and are unheard of in other parts of the world. In some parts of the world chilblains are as common as the everyday cold and recognised daily. In other parts of the world they can easily get missed as they do not happen that often. The key pathophysiological...

Navicular Stress Fracture

Navicular Stress Fracture Occasionally you can hear about a top level athlete in the news getting surgery for a tarsal navicular stress fracture. Unless you are at that elite level, it assumed that the avenue of surgical management may not be open. A recent systematic review published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine...

Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome and Bending...

Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome and Bending... The April 2010 edition of Podiatry Today has an update of the latest concepts in Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome. Two key concepts that came through in the article is exactly what is the pathological process in the condition - is it a soft tissue traction issue or a bone stress reaction due to tibial bending...

Risk for plantar fasciitis in factory workers

Risk for plantar fasciitis in factory workers A recent study from the University of Michagan looked at the risk factors for plantar fasciitis in asembly plant workers. They found that plantar fasciitis was common in this group of workers and the factors that increased the risk for it were: forefoot pronation on physical examination high metatarsal...

Barefoot Running

Barefoot Running There has been a lot of publicity in the media in the last few days with a number of press releases related to the benefits of barefoot running as opposed to running in running shoes. A quick look around some barefoot running websites and some running forums show that these studies have been widely discussed...

Lipid disorders and diabetic neuropathy

Lipid disorders and diabetic neuropathy More and more research is linking cholesterol and lipid disorders to the development and management of diabetic neuropathy. Most recently a review in the Journal of the Pheripheral Nervous System (Hyperlipidemia: a new therapeutic target for diabetic neuropathy Andrea M. Vincent, Lucy M. Hinder, Rodica...

Is MRSA in infecting or contaminating organism?

Is MRSA in infecting or contaminating organism? In the latest issue of Current Diabetes Reports, Bowling, Jude and Boulton ask the question as if wound colonization by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is the cause of infection or just a contaminating organism. A number of studies have found the bacterial content of diabetic foot...

More than half of Scotland are obese

More than half of Scotland are obese Data from 2008 was disclosed by Public Health Minister Shona Robison in answer to Tory  questions in parliament show that two-thirds of men and more than half of women in Scotland are overweight. Conservative MSP Jackson Carlaw said the statistics disclosed the true scale of "Scotland's obesity epidemic"...

Guidelines for the treatment of Psoriasis

Guidelines for the treatment of Psoriasis Several issues of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology has some definitive review and guidelines on teh treatment of psoriasis for those that can access the journal: Guidelines of care for the management of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis: Section 1. Overview of psoriasis and guidelines...

New Rheumatoid Arthritis Criteria

New Rheumatoid Arthritis Criteria The current criteria for the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were developed in 1987. At its October meeting, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) released revised the guidelines. The revised criteria rate patients on a scale of 0-10 points,...

Cuboid Syndrome

Cuboid Syndrome Cuboid syndrome is due to what is thought to be a subluxation of the cuboid bone. When the peroneus longus muscle muscle contracts, it tries to dorsally displace and evert the cuboid as the tendon passes under the bone. To prevent this from happening the cuboid needs to be very stable against the calcaneus....
We will keep You Updated...
Sign up to receive breaking news
as well as receive other site updates!
Sponsors
Sponsors
Random Posts

Kohlers Disease

Kohlers disease is a rare disorder that needs to be considered in the differential diagnosis of pain... 

More than half of Scotland are obese

Data from 2008 was disclosed by Public Health Minister Shona Robison in answer to Tory  questions in... 

Cuboid Syndrome

Cuboid syndrome is due to what is thought to be a subluxation of the cuboid bone. When the peroneus longus... 

New Rheumatoid Arthritis Criteria

The current criteria for the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were developed in 1987. At its October... 

Recent Comments
I would have thought that if MRSA was present, then that is enough to treat it, if it was the infecting organism or not. MRSA is nas
Tag Cloud