Archive for December 26, 2009
Lateral Wedging for Medial Knee Osteoarthritis
Dec 26th
Osteoarthritis of the knee is a very common problem today. It creates a burden on the individual in terms of pain and suffering as well as health care costs. It also has a significant impact on quality of life. The two main risk factors for knee osteoarthritis are overweight and an increased knee adduction moment. [...]
Value of links to a web site
Dec 26th
The web search engines have many different ways of determining the popularity of a page to rank then in the search results. Most of these methods are based on the number of links to a page from other web sites. Usually, the more links to a page the more popular it is considered and the higher [...]
Cuboid Syndrome
Dec 26th
Cuboid syndrome is a common overuse injury that occurs in athletes and sports people. It is caused by the cuboid bone that becomes unstable and moves. The cuboid is a small cube shaped bone on the outside of the foot. When the muscles from the leg (the peroneal muscles) contract, the tendons that use the cuboid as a pulley will [...]
Managing a forum
Dec 26th
Managing a forum is not as easy as it seems and involves so many tasks, that many newbies are unprepared for it. Before starting you need to get the domain name, get a good forum web host, get the forum software (vBulletin is good), change the style and doing any custom modifications that is needed to suit. Then some content has to [...]
Laser Treatment for Toenail Fungus
Dec 26th
A new recent treatment for fungal infections of toenails is laser treatment for toenail fungus. This technique uses a laser beam to destroy the fungal infection. It can not fix the nail immediately, as you then have to wait until the nail grows out with the dead fungal elements in it. Laser treatment for onychomycosis is [...]
How good are the MBT shoes?
Dec 26th
Masai Barefoot Technology (MBT) shoes are a unique shoe that are marketed as the anti-shoe. They are called this as the shoe is supposed to make walking more like barefoot walking and that has benefits for the posture, the biomechanics and the lower limb and low back function. The footwear is named after the Masai tribe in Africa [...]
Link Juice
Dec 26th
In order to rank well in the search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing, websites need to get links to them from other websites. It is considered that he more links to a website, the higher it should rank in the search engines (there are a lot of other factors that go into the rankings, so [...]
Barefoot Running
Dec 26th
Barefoot running is a popular alternative way to run without running shoes. We were originally created to run barefoot to survive, to chase and hunt wild animals and move from camp to camp to find food. However, since that time, for better or worse, concrete has been invented and we have to protect ourselves from that hard surface. The [...]
Cracked heels
Dec 26th
Cracks in the skin around the heels are very common in those people who are overweight, tend to have dry skin, have thick callused skin around the edge of the heels and often wear open heel shoes. When we weightbear, the fat pad under the heel wants to expands outwards from under the heel. If the skin [...]
Achilles tendonitis
Dec 26th
Achilles tendonitis is one of the more common problem in running athletes, especially on the hard road surfaces. It is more common in athletes over teh age of 40. Achilles tendon injuries heal slowly as they do not have a direct blood supply and rely on blood flowing in from sheaths that surround the tendon. Achilles tendonitis [...]
Is Chi Running Any Good?
Dec 26th
Chi running is considered to be both a philosophy of running and a technique of running. It is gaining popularity within the running and fitness communities. It was originally developed by an ultramarthon runner, Danny Dreyer. The New Balance Running Shoe Company have considered the popularity of it to be such that they developed a Chi running shoe. [...]
Functional Hallux Limitus
Dec 26th
Functional hallux limitus is a technical name for a common problem. Functional represents that that it is something that only occurs when we are walking or running, ie functioning. Hallux is the technical term for the big toe. Limitus is also a technical term and means a limitation in joint motion. So all this means is that functional hallux [...]
Get a web site listed in the ODP / DMOZ
Dec 26th
The Open Directory Project (ODP) or DMOZ is the most well known web site link directory that web site owners all want to get their web sites listed in to build back links to their site. DMOZ or ODP (Open Directory Project) is owned by AOL but is run a large group of volunteers. They see [...]
Does reflexology actually make a difference?
Dec 26th
Reflexology is a complementary health care practice in which its supporters like to claim that various parts and organs of the body can be mapped to parts or zones on the foot or hand (it used to be called zone therapy in the past for this reason). Those who advocate the practice of reflexology claim that the massgae of these [...]