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What About Pedorthics

August 25, 2010

Pedorthics ?s really a profession which is getting more well-known even though it has been around for years. Pedorthics carries out the design and style, and production, and also the modification as well as fitting regarding footwear and foot orthoses to reduce problems that are generated by a variety of illnesses. These problems could be [...]

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Severs Disease of the Heel in Young Athletes

June 20, 2010

Severs disease is a growth problem that happens in youngsters who play a lot of sport. As the back of the heel bone or calcaneus there is a thin cartilage growth plate that growth of the bone occurs at. The Achilles tendon inserts into the back of this growth plate. During sport, especially on hard [...]

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Sinus Tarsi Syndrome

June 16, 2010

Sinus tarsi syndrome is a sports injury that happens in the sinus tarsi. This is a sinus or tunnel of bone between the calcaneus (heel bone) and talus (ankle bone) in the rearfoot. There are many strong ligaments between these two bone and they can get damaged as part of an ankle sprain. Often they [...]

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The Functional Hallux Limitus

June 14, 2010

The great toe or hallux articulation on the foot is a hugely necessary joint regarding regular feet functionality. This is actually the joint which the foot and body rotates forwards above, therefore just about any restriction in motion offered at this great toe joint will be most likely to bring on problems. The conditions can [...]

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Cuboid Syndrome

June 13, 2010

Cuboid syndrome is a problem that develops on the outside of the foot with the joint between the calcaneus bone and the cuboid bone. It is more common in athletes where it is considered and overuse type injury. The cuboid acts as a pulley for the peroneus longus tendon where is changes direction. If the [...]

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The Diabetic Athlete

June 11, 2010

The type 2 diabetes pandemic which is beginning to spread around the entire world has been pushed by way of many things. It is undoubtedly a unhealthy weight pandemic, the lack of regular physical exercise, the westernization involving regular quality diets (I’ve actually over heard that known as the Coca-Colonisation of classic societies). It is [...]

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Chilblains in Athletes

June 7, 2010

Chilblains are a vasospastic disorder that mostly occurs on the toes of the feet, but can occurs on the fingers, the nose and the ears. They are of particular concern to athletes who participate in outdoor sports events in the cold weather. Chilblains are not really caused by the cold, they are caused by a [...]

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Hallux Rigidus

June 5, 2010

Hallux rigidus is a problem of the big toe joint of the foot. Hallux is the technical name for the great or big toe and rigidus mean rigid, so hallux rigidus is a condition in which the big to joint does not move. This is an important joint that a lot of movement is needed [...]

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Podiatric Sports Medicine

May 29, 2010

The feet are a complicated arrangement with 26 bones and more tendons, muscles and also ligaments. To mess with that even more, we walk on the foot as well as place it in to the darkish and also moist environment with the shoe. Place all this jointly and there is no surprise that foot complications [...]

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Sports Medicine

May 25, 2010

Sports Medicine means many things to many people. Many different disciplines are involved in sports medicine. Sports Medicine is the use of medicine to treat athletes. The clinical disciplines involved in that include the sports physician, the physiotherapist, the sports podiatrist, and athletic trainer and many more Sports Medicine is also the use of sports [...]

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