Health
What is Severs Disease?
Feb 20th
Severs disease is a well known and common problem of the childs foot that affects children (mostly boys) from the ages of 10 to 15 years. It is a common overuse type injury due to overload of the heel. It is more common in more active child. Calcaneal apophysitis is the name for this condition used by health professionals. Pain [...]
Podatry around the world
Dec 27th
In the United States, Podiatry is studied at the graduate level with an undergraduate degree needed for entry o the podiatric medical degree. The podiatric medical degree is four years and most will do a three year residency after that. Podiatric physicians in the USA have full medical and surgical scope for the treatment of the foot and related [...]
What is Podiatry?
Dec 27th
Podiatry is a health profession that deals with the diagnosis and treatment foot and realted problems by a range of mechanical, surgical and pharmaceutical means. Just what a podiatrist does, varies from country to country and is reflected in the scope of practice legislation of each country and the length of education in each country. In the United [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]