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Does the Circulation Booster Work?
The Circulation Booster is a product that is claimed to help improve the circulation to the foot and lower limb. However, those claims have been questioned by at least one advertising standards authority because of the lack of evidence to support the claims that are made for it. The Circulation Booster...
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
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
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 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 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
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...
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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 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....Foot orthotic mechanisms of action
A recent review in the British Journal of Sports Medicine show just how much we don't now about how foot orthotics work (Foot Orthoses and Gait: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Literature Pertaining to Potential Mechanisms. Br J Sports Med. 2009 Dec 8)
The authors did a systematic review...Web sites for Podiatry Clinics
Web sites these days are almost essential for anyone in business. Yellow pages and similar directories are going out of print around the world as more and more people search online for what they used to use the yellow pages for. A web site offers a great way to get your message out to potential patients.
It...How good are MBT shoes?
Masai Barefoot Technology (MBT) shoes are marketed by the manufacturers as the 'anti-shoe' as they are supposed to mimic barefoot working. They also claim that they increase muscle activity so give the wearer a workout when using them. The shoes design is supposed to have been inspired by the barefoot...BBC Story on Podiatric Surgery
The BBC have a sensationalised story on podiatric surgery in the NHS being "unregulated":
Podiatric Surgeons are chiropodists who go on to learn surgical techniques to operate on feet and ankles. But BBC London has learned that there is no independent body which accredits these training courses. Furthermore,...
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Why was there no control group in that study? Why only healthy subjects used? The study does not show what is claimed.
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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
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