Lower Extremity Review
What is it to say you use a biomechanical approach for your patients? Biomechanics means the functional mechanics of the body. Our bodies are unbelievable. They are very powerful, and fairly resilient. Why do they get injured? What systems or other body parts affect the injured body part?
By Richard Blake, DPM, MS
52 cases of hamstring injuries were included for specific pattern analysis. The pattern analysis revealed 25 sprint-related (48%) and 27 stretch-related hamstring injuries (52%). All sprint-related hamstring injuries occured during linear acceleration or high-speed running.
ZetrOZ Systems, creator and manufacturer of the sustained acoustic medicine (sam®) wearable ultrasound device product line, has introduced its newest innovation, the samx1. The samx1 delivers high-quality, effective soft tissue and injury healing capabilities at home. Designed for ergonomics and…
Plantiga is a smart insole system that tracks and analyzes biomechanics in the real world: in the clinic, on the field, or at home. The system enables the measurement of movement vital signs, so the user can be proactive instead of reactive, and live longer, happier, and healthier lives.
Asking patients for a number to describe their pain provides the most minimal of information. These authors are calling for a comprehensive, cross-platform, multidisciplinary solution. A patient walks into a doctors’ office, shares their concerns, and the doctor asks…
By Jay Segel, DPM; Sally Crawford, MS; and Jason Kraus, BS
Researchers have developed a decision tree algorithm that they propose can be used to accurately and easily prescribe customized foot orthoses to patients with pes planus. Pes planus, one of the most common foot deformities, includes the loss of the medial arch, misalignment of the…
By Ji-Yong Jung, Chang-Min Yang, Jung-Ja Kim
Physical exercise induces spatially heterogeneous adaptation in bone. However, it remains unclear where the changes in bone mineral density (BMD) and geometry have the greatest impact on femoral neck strength.
By Dermot O’Rourke, Belinda R. Beck, Amy T. Harding, Steven L. Watson, Peter Pivonka, Saulo Martelli
Stingrays are cartilaginous fish related to sharks with round, flattened bodies and whip-like tails. Stingrays are common to shallow intertidal areas of tropical and subtropical oceans around the world, although some rays inhabit cooler waters and freshwater. While there are approximately 150 species of ray worldwide, one to two dozen stingray species are…
By Mathias B. Forrester, BS
One of the most perplexing issues I deal with in biomechanics is trying to take asymmetrical functioning bodies and make them more symmetrical when I think it will help the patient’s symptoms and function. However, asymmetry is part of who we are as people, so some thought has to be put into deciding exactly what needs to be changed because…
By Richard Blake, DPM
I don’t know about you all, but I think – I think – that just maybe that COVID door is closing and the world is waking up to today’s new reality. Today’s reality may look a lot like pre-COVID, but I can say for sure, we are not going back to that former reality. COVID served as a major disruptor to healthcare, to business, to life in general, and those who…
By Rich Dubin, Publisher
In 1997, at age 50, I started experiencing strange pains in my feet. It varied from lumps in my shoes to a hot poker stabbing my feet. Sometimes it was so intense that I could hardly stand up. I went from doctor to doctor getting treated for one guess to another. After 5 years, a new doctor said it was peripheral neuropathy and…
By Deborah Ann
Osteochondral lesions of the talus (OLT) are often associated with ankle pain and dysfunction. They can occur after ankle trauma, such as sprains or fractures, but they usually present as a continued ankle pain after the initial injury has resolved. Chronic ankle ligament instability and subsequent microtrauma may lead to insidious development of an OLT. Medial-sided lesions are more common (67%) than lateral-sided lesions.
Candidaemia is the most common fungal bloodstream infection in hospitalized patients. Diabetes is one of the risk factors for mortality from candidaemia. A group of researchers from Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, compared the epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and…
For patients undergoing foot and ankle surgery, preoperative oral antibiotics are standard of care. Yet, there is no consensus on the efficacy of this postsurgical protocol. For this study, researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis wanted to know whether postoperative oral antibiotics reduce the rate of surgical site infections (SSIs) in patients, with…
Writing in the 50th anniversary edition of the journal Age and Ageing, researchers Avan Sayer and Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft express optimism that a newly formed Global Leadership Initiative on Sarcopenia will develop international consensus on definition and diagnosis.
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