Sandal Stack Height, Gait, and Stability

Sandal Stack Height, Gait, and Stability

Stack height is the amount of material between one’s foot and the ground. As stack height, by definition, speaks to the amount of organized material between a 3-dimensional foot of limited mass and the relatively unlimited mass of any 2-dimensional support surface on which it functions, it will have…

By Jay Segel, DPM, & Sally Crawford, MS

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Clinical Gait Assessment Using Plantar Pressure Analysis: Force & Foot Function

Clinical Gait Assessment Using Plantar Pressure Analysis: Force & Foot Function

Natural forces affect every step we take. When the forces are too great for plantar tissues to handle, overloading occurs. Tissue overload can occur throughout the kinetic chain, wreaking havoc from end to end. Over the past 15 to 20 years, research has focused on tissue overloading as the most common cause of overuse injury. Overload is caused by…

By Paul Graham, B App Sc (Pod), FAAPSM

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Lower Extremity Injuries While Skydiving

Lower Extremity Injuries While Skydiving

Skydiving, jumping from an aircraft and free-falling before landing by parachute, is a popular activity in the United States. In 2022, approximately 42,000 United States Parachute Association (USPA) members made about 3.9 million jumps at more than 208 USPA-affiliated skydiving centers in the United States – an average of 92 jumps per member.

By Mathias B. Forrester, BS

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Mitigating the Postoperative Swelling Tsunami in Total Knee Arthroplasty: a Call to Action

Mitigating the Postoperative Swelling Tsunami in Total Knee Arthroplasty: a Call to Action

Total knee arthroplasty is a treatment option for individuals with symptomatic osteoarthritis who have failed conservative therapy. In this manuscript the authors describe the pathophysiology of post-operative edema and explore…

By Andrew Wickline, MD, FAAOS; Windy Cole, DPM, CWSP, FACCWS; Mark Melin, MD, FACS, RPVI, FACCWS; Suzie Ehmann, PT DPT, PhD(c), CWS, CLT-LANA; Frank Aviles, PT, CWS, FACCWS, CLT-LANA, ALM,AWCC, MAPWCA; and Jennifer Bradt, PT,DPT,CLT-LANA

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Welcome To The Reality Of Diabetic Foot Ulceration: A Multidisciplinary Approach To Evaluation and Management Through Computer-Aided Gait Analysis & Custom Diabetic Orthoses

Welcome To The Reality Of Diabetic Foot Ulceration: A Multidisciplinary Approach To Evaluation and Management Through Computer-Aided Gait Analysis & Custom Diabetic Orthoses

Diabetes mellitus has exploded in its prevalence worldwide, affecting millions with grave consequences, crippling both the patient and the…

By Jay Segel, DPM; Sally Crawford, MS; Mark Hopkins, PT, CPO, MBA; Brian Murray, PT; Tracy Winchester; Alexander Lakner, DPM; DeEtta McKnight, RN; Caitlin Hicks, MD, MPH-V; Christopher Abularrage, MD; Sanuja Bose, MD, MPH; Alana Keegan, MD; and Ronald Sherman, DPM, MBA

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Comparing 5 Methods for Evaluating Ankle–Foot-Orthosis Stiffness

Comparing 5 Methods for Evaluating Ankle–Foot-Orthosis Stiffness

Ankle–foot orthoses (AFOs) are external braces used to support or augment the ankle joint during activities of daily living. A wide variety of custom and commercial AFOs are available to accommodate each AFO user’s individual needs. Differences among AFOs are largely driven by their geometry and mechanical properties.

By Benjamin R. Shuman, Deema Totah, Deanna H. Gates, Fan Gao, Andrew J. Ries, and Elizabeth Russell Esposito

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