Foot Health Friday

Staff

October 6, 2013

Grounding or earthing is a concept form the alternative health movements that is based on the belief that we need to be barefoot in contact with the earth to keep our ‘electrons’ in balance. if we can;t do that, surprise, surprise, they have some products to sell to help facilitate that. Those that promote grounding point to an apparent body of research that supports it, but that research is largely published in low quality publications and has a number of significant flaws. most of the research has been done by companies with a product to sell, so there is an alleged bias in that research. The scientific community sees grounding as pseudoscience and snake oil.

The old disease, Gout

Staff

September 27, 2013

Gout has been documented since antiquity. Traces of gout have been found in Egyptian mummies. Gout was once considered a disease of kings and was linked to too much of the good life. It is now known that it is not necessarily the case. The pain of gout is due to uric acids crystals being deposited into the joints, most commonly the first metatarsophalangeal joint of the foot. This crystals get deposited with the levels of purine are too high in the blood. The purines accumulate in the blood when too much is ingested in the diet for the kidneys to eliminate. This can occur if too much food rich in purines are eaten (eg the gluttony from antiquity) or if there is a kidney disease present (eg diabetes). The treatment of gout is simple. You either take in less purines (ie eat food with less) or get the kidneys to excrete more. There is no magical cure.

Golf and the Foot

Staff

September 20, 2013

The foot is really important in golf. At first glance it may not seem so, but can the foot carry someone through 18 holes of golf or not? There are a large number of different foot problems that can either be caused by the volume of activity needed to play a round of golf or the presence of the foot problem can inhibit the golf. The golf swing or biomechanics is also an extremely precise and complicated action that professional golfers spend years perfecting. Its not hard to imagine how, even a minor foot problem is going to interfere with that precise motion and impact on that precision. Golfers do need to make sure they have the right type of footwear that suits their playing style. Any problems should be checked by a podiatrist.

What is a gait plate?

Staff

September 12, 2013

A gait plate is a type of foot orthotic that has steep angle at the front end to try and change the angle that the shoe bends at. The purpose of the gait plate is to change the angle of gait to correct a toe-in or toe-out pattern of walking, especially in children. The evidence is that they do not work very well at doing this and a lot may depend on the actual cause of the angle of gait being in ore out more than the normal range.

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