A technique of distributed surface electrical stimulation of the foot sole was used to elicit the withdrawal reflex in ankle flexors and extensors during gait. Tibialis anterior and soleus reflexes were recorded from 8 subjects during treadmill walking. The largest responses in tibialis anterior were evoked at the arch of the foot, while in soleus the largest responses were elicited at the heel...

Heel pain is a common presentation in outpatient clinics. Here, we report a 69-year-old woman who complaint about a painful nodule on her left posterior heel. There was no history of trauma. The lesion developed during ten weeks without any bleeding or ulceration. On examination, we observed a subcutaneous firm nodule of about 1 cm in diameter. The lesion was hypoechoic in diagnostic sonography...

In de context van zeer dynamische en steeds krapper wordende arbeidsmarkt anno 2022 pleiten verschillende organisaties voor het centraal stellen op vaardigheden ofwel ‘skills’. Nederland zijn er initiatieven gericht ontwikkelen een skillsmarkt, maar grootschalig samenbrengen werkzoekenden werkgevers aan hand skills is voorlopig nog geen sprake. Dat komt mede omdat meerwaarde skillsbenaderingen ...

The main objective of this article is to optimize the walking pattern of a 2D humanoid robot with heel-off and toe-off motions in order to minimize the energy consumption and maximize the stability margin. To this end, at first, a gait planning method is introduced based on the ankle and hip joint position trajectories. Then, using these trajectories and the inverse kinematics, the position tra...

OBJECTIVES To compare the effectiveness of a steroid injection (25 mg/ml prednisolone acetate) with a local anaesthetic control in the treatment of heel pain and to determine any advantage for patients' comfort of using a posterior tibial nerve block to anesthetize the heel prior to infiltration. METHODS A double-blind randomized controlled trial using a 2 x 2 design in a hospital-based rheum...