Aetiology of "Immersion Foot"

Family studies and aetiology of club foot.

Congenital club foot and talipes are used to describe various abnormalities of the foot in the newborn child. The most serious of these is talipes equinovarus in which there is plantar flexion of the ankle and inversion of the foot. This deformity is difficult to treat, having a marked tendency to recur, and causes a real disability. About half the cases are bilaterally affected. Patients frequ...

The role of shear stress in the aetiology of diabetic neuropathic foot ulcers

Introduction Several biomechanical studies have been conducted in the last decade to investigate the aetiology of plantar ulcers in presence of Diabetes (D) and Peripheral Neuropathy (PN) [1]. Great renewed interest has been lately showed towards shear stresses during gait [2,3]. In this case, the major difficulty lays in technology, since it is still hard to obtain reliable and meaningful meas...

A review on aetiology and pathogeny of African horse sickness

The Immersion of Manifolds

1. M. Hirsch [3] has shown that the immersion problem for manifolds is just a cross section problem for the stable normal bundle. Our object here is to find conditions under which sections of the tangent bundle will imply sections in the normal bundle (and conversely). First we need some notation. Given an integer /, let j(t) be the maximum integer such that the 2*-f old Whitney sum of the Hopf...

Aetiology of psychopathy

This article is an overview of developments in psychopathy and their application to children and adolescents. A key question is whether or not psychopathy is stable throughout the lifespan. Some characteristics indicate phenotypic similarities with adult psychopathy, and current instruments appear to be measuring similar constructs across the age ranges. Although the literature on developmental...