Early Orthotic Intervention in Pediatric Patients, Part I: Cerebral Palsy

Early Orthotic Intervention in Pediatric Patients, Part I: Cerebral Palsy

Children with cerebral palsy (CP) typically encounter a host of gait- and balance-related issues associated with spasticity, dyskinesia, and weakness. How severe these are depends on CP type and the individual case. As a result, experts have long debated how early to intervene with bracing strategies that include ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs), and how long to maintain those interventions.

By Cary Groner

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At All Levels and Categories of Cycling: Correct Poor Crank-arm Fit to Relieve Chronic Knee (and Hip) Pain

At All Levels and Categories of Cycling: Correct Poor Crank-arm Fit to Relieve Chronic Knee (and Hip) Pain

Consider recommending installation of shorter crank arms on a bike when a cyclist complains of knee or hip pain. After years of bike-fitting, here’s why we’ve concluded that this modification is invaluable. One of the biggest problems in bicycling, I’ve found, is that pain is considered normal. I (RS) am a master bike fitter and an elite cycling coach.

By Rick Schultz, MBA, DBA, and Amy Schultz, PT, DPT, CSCS

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Bike Fitting Will Come Out From the Shadows and Into Rehab Armamentarium

Bike Fitting Will Come Out From the Shadows and Into Rehab Armamentarium

Many readers may not have heard of it yet, but by the time LER turns 20, I predict it will be a common prescription…at least I hope it will be. I’m talking about bike fitting, of course. The number of individuals choosing cycling as transportation, hobby, sport, or community activity—whether it’s competitive or recreational—is increasing annually—up from around 43 million in 2014 to 47.5 million in 2017.

By Happy Freedman

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Growing Awareness of Unicity Will Drive Sport Science

Growing Awareness of Unicity Will Drive Sport Science

Like the athletes we study, the field of sport science is always in motion. When combined with medicine, it is a rich and growing environment in which the interaction between daily practice and clinical research contributes to an overall progression in understanding of human performance and biological adaptations.

By Antonio Robustelli, MSc, CSCS

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What’s the Point of 3D Printing Orthotics? Options!

What’s the Point of 3D Printing Orthotics? Options!

Recently, on the Facebook page of Craig Payne, creator of Podiatryarena.com, there was discussion about a published study that compared running biomechanics and perceived comfort between a 3D-printed orthotic and a traditionally manufactured orthotic. The study showed there were no differences between the two devices.

By Bruce E. Williams, DPM

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PRACTICAL MATTER FOR CLINICIANS: Women Are Biomechanically Distinct From Men When They Run

PRACTICAL MATTER FOR CLINICIANS: Women Are Biomechanically Distinct From Men When They Run

Learn how men and women are constructed differently—and therefore why they each have a distinctive running gait—to be better equipped to manage, and prevent, female-specific lower-extremity sports injury. Starting at puberty, sex hormones begin to affect changes in bone and lean body mass—changes that are different in females than in males.

By Ray M. Fredericksen M.S. C-PED

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