Delayed Big Toe Surgery!
We need to help patients understand more Part of Tom’s concerns have been that he has had a number of surgeries without any fuss. So, when armed with all the information why did his private hospital want to repeat tests when they had been done before? In fact...
Selling & Misselling Orthoses
Time to challenge our understanding of pronation At ConsultingFootPain my colleagues and I try to take the mystique out of foot health science and recognise it is easy to confuse patients. For example, pronation is a word related to anatomical movement. YouTube videos...
Threats to Rafael Nadal’s Future?
Mueller-Weiss syndrome Here we are, another tennis player who has been suffering for a long time with foot pain. Rafael Nadal – one of the world’s most successful players. But, aged 36 – sometimes considered the peak age of most men, the Spanish athlete known as ‘King...
Musings about corns and callus
Can we joke about corns, hard skin and all that? For some, they can tell the weather forecast and this appears to be the case when nerves serve as a barometer for the shift in air pressure. In actual fact this concept is more prevalent around amputation of toes; the...
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