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PURPOSE: This study was to examine the effects of Taping therapy on the deformed angle of the foot and pain in hallux valgus patients.
METHOD: The subjects were 24 feet from 15 patients who were diagnosed withhallus valgus at the orthopedic department of K University Hospital in Seoul. Taping therapy was conducted 15 times overall during a four-week period. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and t-test.
RESULT: The deformed angle of the foot of the hallus valgus patients significantly improved from 21.95 (4.38) to 18.75 (4.80) after Taping therapy. Pain significantly decreased from 4.73 (1.56) to 3.45 (2.21) after Taping therapy.
CONCLUSION: The result shows that Taping therapy is effective in improving the deformed angle of the foot and in decreasing pain in the hallux valgus patients
Has anyone read this article? If so, what method did they use to assess the "deformed angle of the foot" that they managed to improve by approximately 3 degrees? And how does it translate to western methods of charting HAV? Is it the IM or HAV angle? Either way, there's a large degree of measurement error with many of the methods used to determine longitudinal bisections of foot bones on plain film x-ray, so I'm unsure of how significant their findings really are.
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I myself have always found it difficult to tape patients with HAV.A volcano pad or tube foam sleeve tends to be easier to do.True,this may not be a very efficient thing to do,but even the taping does not really solve the problem,at least as I see it.
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