D iabetic Foot & Ankle was launched in 2010. My inspiration to start the journal was to bring together multidisciplinary groups and health care providers around the world to share their expertise in the prevention and management of diabetic foot and ankle complications. A number of excellent articles have since then been published, which has led to the inclusion of the journal in PubMed Central...

BACKGROUND The quality of research and evidence to support medical treatments is under scrutiny from the medical profession and the public. This study examined the current quality of research and level of evidence (LOE) of foot and ankle surgery papers published in orthopedic and podiatric medical journals. METHODS Two independent evaluators performed a blinded assessment of all foot and ankl...

Foot drop is the inability to dorsiflex ankle (raise toes) due neuromuscular impairment, and this common condition can cause trips falls. Current treatments for chronic foot provide dorsiflexion support, but they either impede push off or are not suitable all patients. Powered ankle-foot orthosis (AFO) counteract without these drawbacks, heavy bulky have short battery life. To drawbacks of curr...

1067-2516/$ see front matter 2011 by the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeon doi:10.1053/j.jfas.2010.10.016 As a regular user of the peer-reviewed medical literature, I’ve observed a steady improvement in the overall quality of foot and ankle surgical research over the past 25 years. I believe that this is important, because the scientific literature, along with our personal experience a...

Ten participants without physical impairment walked with 0 kg, 11.5 kg, and 23.0 kg of added weight equally distributed about the torso in a harness. At each weight level, the participants walked at slow, normal, and fast self-selected walking speeds. We examined the roll-over characteristics by determining the ankle-foot and knee-ankle-foot roll-over shapes. These shapes, which are the effecti...

We undertook a prospective study to determine the type and distribution of foot and ankle snowboarding injuries. Reports of 3213 snowboarding injuries were collected from 12 Colorado ski resorts between 1988 and 1995. Of these, 491 (15.3%) were ankle injuries and 58 (1.8%) were foot injuries. Ankle injuries included 216 (44%) fractures and 255 (52%) sprains. Thirty-three (57%) of the foot injur...