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Biomechanical basis of foot orthotic prescription
Foot orthoses are prescribed to improve posture in the foot and ankle. The decade of the 1980s witnessed the widespread use of foot orthoses in an attempt to produce relief of a variety of symptoms in the foot and leg and pathologies due to hindfoot and/or forefoot malalignments. While it is documented that many overuse injuries of the lower limb can be relieved with the use of foot orthoses, i...
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A difficult clinical decision to be made when treating a paraplegic patient is deciding if walking is a realistic goal, if orthoses should be prescribed, and what the functional outcome will be. It has been demonstrated that the en ergy expenditure for paraplegics, utilizing a crutch assisted swing-through gait pattern, is markedly elevated. Many patients have learned to walk with crutches and...
متن کاملUse of anti-pronation taping to assess suitability of orthotic prescription: case report.
This case report describes a strategy for assessing the suitability of orthotic prescription for individual patients with lower limb overuse injuries. The case concerns a 32 year old male soccer player with a two-year history of Achilles tendinopathy. A functional assessment performed before, during, and after a trial period of anti-pronation taping showed that taping reduced symptoms markedly ...
متن کاملA new approach to patient analysis for orthotic prescription. I. The lower extremity.
1 Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, Associate Director of Rehabilitation, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Fla. 33152. 2 Director, Prosthetic-Orthotic Center, Northwestern University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill. 60611. 3 Orthotic Division, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, Ind. 46207. There is liittle question that the field of orthotics has taken a back seat to...
متن کاملCustom-made foot orthoses: an analysis of prescription characteristics from an Australian commercial orthotic laboratory
BACKGROUND Foot orthoses are widely used in the prevention and treatment of foot disorders. The aim of this study was to describe characteristics of custom-made foot orthosis prescriptions from a Australian podiatric orthotic laboratory. METHODS One thousand consecutive foot orthosis prescription forms were obtained from a commercial prescription foot orthosis laboratory located in Melbourne,...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Orthopedics & Traumatology
سال: 1972
ISSN: 1349-4333,0037-1033
DOI: 10.5035/nishiseisai.21.391