Podaitry Arena
May 2006
 

Podiatry Arena


Here is the update from May

We now have 2750 members, 1876 topics and 10,436 messages!!!!!!

If you have not visited in a while, here is SOME of the new topics (and a lot more older ones have been updated):

General Issues and Discussion:

 

Podiatry & Homeopathy/ Complementary Practice
Foot Mobilisation Techniques (FMT)
Patellar Reflex
Plantar temperatures and low back pain

Painful plantar hypertrophic scar
Causative agents of onychomycosis

Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome / Sudecks
Matching feet of different sizes

Plantar Fasciosis Neuropathy
Podiatrist/Podologists/Podologue in Denmark/Belgium?

Tagamet (cimetidine) for wart treatment
Bad Science?
Severe bromidrosis
Treatment of friction blisters with 2-octylcyanoacrylate
Phytex for fungal nails

Dermatomycosis and the environment
Foot odor due to microbial metabolism and its control
Has anyone heard of shorter 2nd metatarsals?
Morphine?
Weight gain can trigger foot and ankle pain
Schizophrenia & foot fissures
Neurovascular helomas
Management of Moderate Chronic Pain in Osteoarthritis

Vibrating shoes aid stroke and diabetic patients
Patient with symptomatic 'hot feet'
Polycythemia vera presenting as toe ulceration

Restless Leg Syndrome
Wellingtons/Gum boots
Rise of pedicures and risks of infection

Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses

Detecting plantar fasciitis on lateral x-ray
Patellofemoral pain and asymmetrical hip rotation

New Myth? (computerised measurement)
Foot position and vasti activation in cycling
Screw fusion of MPJ and gait
Foot orthoses and the cavus foot
T.E. #7: External Forces on Objects: Problems with

only Motion Observation
Response to midsole hardness is variable during running
Effects of Force on Object With No Object Motion

Barefoot walking
Gait changes after 1st MPJ fusion

Dudley Morton's Concept of Disordered Foot Function
Stainsby "The Foot; A New Approach to Structure and Funtction"

Flexor Dig. Longus Tendinitis?
Question about intrinsic rearfoot posting

Medial tibial stress syndrome
Muscle fatigue affects tibial strain

Defining Rotational Equilibrium
Effects of low dye tape

Is there a link between infertility and abnormal foot motion
What is your definition of normal pronation
Dorsal Midfoot Interosseous Compression Syndrome

Ethics in Orthotic Prescribing
Rothbarts insoles
Subclinical nerve entrapements in runners
Mysteries of the metatarsal fracture
Do Rearfoot posts Work?

Diabetic Foot & Wound Management

Topical nail antifungal and risk for diabetic foot ulceration
Soft Cast for the diabetic foot?
Plantar skin properties in diabetes

Predictors of diabetic foot ulcers & infections
One-Third of U.S. Adults Diabetic or Pre-Diabetic

Acellular matrix therapy for diabetic foot wounds
Shear stress reduction and heel ulcers
New diabetic foot book
Evaluation of foam dressings in chronic wounds

What biomechanics assessments in diabetes?
Peripheral neuropathy improvment with infrared photo energy
Reliability of the ABI

Clue to diabetes limb loss cause
Attitudes to prescribed diabetic footwear
Pronated foot associated with hallux ulcer in diabetes

Selecting the right wound dressing
Beta-1,3/1,6-glucan (SBG) in diabetic ulcers
Australia's diabetes epidemic

Patient’s attendants forced to take amputated leg
Fatal foot ulcer
Shear stress and diabetic foot ulcers

Growth of new cells in PVD
"Must do's" for successful diabetic foot clinics

 

Foot Surgery
 
USA Forum
United Kingdom
Australia

Please stop by and post a reply, respond to a question or just debate.

THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT!!!