This article has 3 good mechanical points that I want to review. The main goal of most ankle athletic taping is to prevent ankle sprains, therefore it helps pr...
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Athletic Taping and the Lessons on Mechanicsposted in Clinical pearls
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Reducing Plantar Pressures in the Heel and Midfootposted in Clinical pearls
This is a simple article which highlights how adding a soft material under the heel on a custom orthotic device helps lower heel plantar pressures, and also lowers midfoot pressure. It wa...
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Lipstick Works the Best: What is your favorite shade?posted in Clinical pearls
I have some lipstick in all of my office patient rooms for this exact purpose and they can be a game changer. They make a predictable mark for an impressio...
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Can Shoes and Orthotic Devices Produce Normal Motion in a Patient with Structural Hallux LImitus?posted in Clinical pearls
Patients will present with Functional and Structural Hallux Limitus all the time. The basis of this study is to attempt to compare barefoot, minimalist shoe Orthotic #1, and minimalist shoe...
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Treating Growing Pains in Children with Custom Orthotic Devicesposted in Clinical pearls
Treating children with “growing pains” with custom orthotic devices is very common. Podiatrists focus on the abnormal biomechanics as in adults and desig...
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Can Orthotic Devices Actually Help Bunion Development?posted in Clinical pearls
I never felt comfortable with my patients in the early part of my practice to tell them that my foot orthotics devices would help straighten their bunions. I w...
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Achilles Tendonitis with Medial Instability across the Subtalar Jointposted in Clinical pearls
This simple article, here presented only as an abstract, draws the connection between achilles problems and medial instability or over pronation in the foot. T...
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A Study in Muscles and Orthoses when a Patient has PTTDposted in Clinical pearls
Here I am just presenting the abstract of an article that looked at our common diagnosis of PTTD. As the foot collapses, the ankle and knee joints have greater stress, along with over contr...
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The Effectiveness of Foot Orthoses when Treating Runners with Lower Extremity Painposted in Clinical pearls
For those of us who have treated lower extremity pain in our runners, this article comes to no surprise. Running is very stressful, but its health be...
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Give Orthotic Devices, then Teach Short Arc Foot Exercisesposted in Clinical pearls
I love metatarsal doming aka short arc foot exercises. The video below is demonstrating these. This article backs up my previous one showing an improvement in both static, and now, dynami...
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The Use of Foot Orthoses for Ankle Sprainsposted in Clinical pearls
One of the most brilliant Podiatrists that I have ever known here presents an article on their use in the management of ankle sprains. Dr. Doug Richie, of Rich...
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The Relationship between Foot Pronation and ACL Injuriesposted in Clinical pearls
I have had plenty of experience treating ACL injuries, both in the subacute phase when surgery is not being considered right now, or in the chronic stage. The ...
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Pregnancy: How does it affect a woman's foot?posted in Clinical pearls
Pregnancy is a 9 month challenge to the human body and then over and done. But is it? Are there long term effects from this normal, but radically different, pe...
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Stiffness Effects in Rocker-Soled Shoes: Biomechanical Implicationsposted in Clinical pearls
This is a good paper if you want to delve into the biomechanics of rocker bottom shoes (now termed “Hoka-type” shoes. The rocker effect is real to allevi...
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Using Orthotics with patients with Hyper-Mobilityposted in Clinical pearls
I have always treated patients with various degrees of hyper-mobility syndrome. The mantra from our clinic was stable orthotics, strengthening exercises, no st...
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A Farewell to a Great Friend Dr. Stefan Feldmanposted in Clinical pearls
Today, all of us here at KevinRoot Medical are mourning the death of a great individual Dr. Stefan Feldman. A mere 3 years ago, and almost to the day, I was in...
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The Effectiveness of Custom Made Functional Foot Orthoses on Forefoot Painposted in Clinical pearls
Today I present you with only the abstract of this article. A systematic review was done of 9 papers encompassing almost 500 patients. The results confirmed wh...
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Changing walking and running stress to lessen Injuriesposted in Clinical pearls
I want to present a concept that is often used by sports medicine physicians for their running population (and definitely can be used in the walking population) to l...
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Can Changing Gait Help Reduce Pronation?posted in Clinical pearls
When we are treating patients, we discover a huge percentage have signs of over pronation that we can link to the pain or instability or both that they present...
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Deep Dive into Forefoot Varusposted in Clinical pearls
This is a nice study out of Brazil highlighting the relationship of 3 weight bearing measurements: Tibial Calcaneal or Kevin’s Angle (here just called the Rear...
