Posts made by Stanley Beekman

• What is a Medial Lateral Instability Orthosis? Part 2

  Hi Rich, Great article. In depth and you touch on so many things.  May I just add that if it is unilateral, you might want to check for a short leg with equinus. 

  posted in Clinical pearls

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  Stanley Beekman
  12/10/24, 6:09 PM
• Orthotic Salesmanship

  There have been bogus studies that show that there is no difference between Custom orthoses and OTC orthoses. Most notable was a paper by Nadine Rasenberg (Rasenberg N et al. Efficacy of foot ortho...

  posted in Practical Pearls

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  Stanley Beekman
  9/5/24, 7:40 PM
• Back to Orthotic Basics

  I really enjoy your excellent posts. One very minor correction on your last post. I am older than you, so I go back further. During my fellowship, I met a podiatrist who told me that they tried pl...

  posted in Practical Pearls

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  Stanley Beekman
  8/17/24, 2:40 AM
• Schuster vs Root - East Coast vs West Coast Biomechanics

  I think you misunderstood what Dr. Schuster said. With the subtalar joint in neutral position, there is a restriction to the Range of Motion of the midtarsal joint. Therefore it cannot be maximally...

  posted in BIQ pearls

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  Stanley Beekman
  11/5/23, 4:48 AM