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...
Sun and Skin Warnings
Time to take skin care seriously in the sun Getting more out of your GP practitioner – a case history This is the time for sun and skin warnings, flaky skin and looking out for skin changes that could be malignant. Breaking through the barriers associated with...
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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