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A recently published research study links abnormal foot motion to destabilizing the pelvis, clinically observed as a functional LLD. Heel lifts are counterindicated because they tend to lock the pelvis in the dysfunctional position (which frequently leads to low back pain).
Prof B Rothbart
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Dear Dr Brian,
our centre have disposed over 30 pairs of rigid orthotics customised by podistrist using rear foot (heal lifts). We have observed the head of the femur with the acetabulum decrease in its anatomical angle, and the child increased their lumbar, sacral angle with immense pain. once we reove the rigid insoles with hel lift the pain subsides. Please email me andi will post you a power point presentation with all the fancy podiatry rigid insoles. Two orthopaedic surgeons are planning to take the matter to court for expert witness against one podiatrist. Take care doctor.
Dr Petros Kattou D.O
You heard it here first. Watch out all of you mad irresponsible fools who use heel lifts for short legs. Your days are numbered!
As an aside i don't see
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"fancy podiatry rigid insoles
" on any of my prescription forms and a google search turns up nothing! I'm worried at this gap in my education. Can anyone describe them to me? Are they fancy because they have a lace or frilly finish? Doilys as a covering material? Floral print?
Re: Podiatrist Sued for using "rigid orthotics with a heel lift"
netizens
The critical word is 'rigid' which describes the properties of the material. Most foot orthoses, bespoke or otherwise, fall into the semi rigid catagory. Rigid posts on rigid shells provide less opportunity for compression which may under certain circumstances potentiate secondary pathologies. There have been several attemtps in the past to link rigid orthoses (sheel and post) to knee pathology but to the best of my knowledge researchers have not been able to establish a true cause and effect relationship.
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The amusing thing about the ThatFootSite thread is that it starts in the typical Rothbart fashion - a self promotional statement about a product that he has a vested financial interest in that claims scientific support, but he does not provide the reference (how many times have we seen that pattern before?).
Dr Petros Kattou D.O comes in as the cheerleader for the supporters club (how often have we seen that pattern before?). In another thread he tried to pass off his RCT as supporting Rothbarts insoles. Fortunately he has been pulled up on that as it only had 8 subjects!! I see in another thread he posted a long list of research that supports Rothbarts insoles. I went through the list and I could find nothing that actually supported them, so not sure what sort of blinkers that Dr Petros Kattou D.O has on when he reads tham.
The really funny thing, in that long list of references there is actually one study that they claim as supporting Rothbarts insoles because the custom made rigid orthoses did not work. What makes it funny is that the study actually showed the rigid foot orthoses worked, so not sure what sort of blinkers that they had on when they read that one! So if there is to be any sort of legal case, this one publication alone is more than enough to show they work! If you want to check for yourself, we had a long thread on that paper here.
In case I am wrong, can someone please tell me where in that paper it says or shows rigid orthoses don't work?
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Department of Podiatry
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Australia http://www.latrobe.edu.au/podiatry
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Last edited by Admin : 19th November 2007 at 11:20 PM.
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Re: Podiatrist Sued for using "rigid orthotics with a heel lift"
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Does anyone know if this ever eventuated, or was it just someone blowing hot air?
I too was intrigued by that, so have been doing some searching. Could find nothing on the claimed litigation except this thread and the one on ThatFootSite. Searching for "Dr Petros Kattou D.O" not only turned up the threads at ThatFootSite and this thread, but also reveals that he is the Australian distributor of the rothbart proprioceptive placebos. He certainly did not declare that financial interest when he leads the Rothbart cheerleading squad.
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Surely there is a potentially successful lawsuit on the claims made for proprioceptive insoles.
I tried to do that thing in Harry Potter the Chamber of secrets where you take "I am Dr Pettros Kattou D.O." and move the order of the letters around and make "Brian Rothbart" but it did not work. Does anyone know his middle name?
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Originally Posted by Steve The Footman
Does anyone know his middle name?
Dr Petros is a real person. He is an osteopath in Sydney. He used to lead the Rothbart cheer team on ThatFootSite until he was exposed as having a financial interest in the product - he is the Australian distributor. (in another Rothbart related thread here, there was an osteopath from New Zealand also posting glowing testimonials ... turned out he was the NZ distributor ... don't figure).
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Dr Pettros Kattou. Alex Catto.
Coincidence? Or is there a cloning facility somewhere in Italy...
Joking aside i beleive that the cheerleading squad do honestly beleive in what their selling. I just beleive they are also dead wrong. I think misguided rather than sinister.
Podiatrist Sued for using "rigid orthotics with a heel lift"
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