[Purpose] This study examined the effects of the application of elastic taping over the ankle joints of healthy subjects on their gait, balance ability, and muscle strength. [Subjects] Fifty healthy subjects with no orthopedic history of the ankle joint were selected and elastic taping was applied to their ankle joints. [Methods] Before and after application of the elastic taping, gait and bala...

Instability of the subtalar joint can follow inversion stress injuries to the lateral ankle and hindfoot. Ligaments involved in the injury include the calcaneofibular, lateral talocalcaneal, cervical, interosseous talocalcaneal, or a combination. Although the problem most often occurs in conjunction with lateral ankle instability, it may be an isolated problem and it is not corrected equally we...

We present a case of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI) infection of the ankle joint in a patient with HIV infection. The patient presented with a painful, destructive arthropathy of the ankle. Initial microbiological studies were negative but infection with MAI was later identified from biopsies taken during hindfoot fusion. Antibiotic triple therapy was given and the patient remains pai...

We aim to test how well modern nonhabitual barefoot people can adapt to barefoot and Minimalist Bare Foot Technology (MBFT) shoes, in regard to gait symmetry. 28 healthy university students (22 females/6 males) were recruited to walk on a 10-meter walkway randomly on barefoot, in MBFT shoes, and in neutral running shoes at their comfortable walking speed. Kinetic and kinematic data were collect...

experiments wee performed to evaluate the contralateral effect of adjuvant induced mono arthritis. in these experiments laser doppler imaging (ldi) was used to investigate changes in blood flow. adjuvant was applied to induce chronic inflammation. temperature and knee diameter increased in the first week after administration in the administrated knee joint.substance p (sp) (a neruokinin with a ...

BACKGROUND Malalignment of the ankle joint has been found after trauma, by neurological disorders, genetic predisposition and other unidentified factors, and results in asymmetrical joint loading. For a medial open wedge supramalleolar osteotomy(SMO), there are some debates as to whether concurrent fibular osteotomy should be performed. We assessed the changes in motion of ankle joint and plant...

PURPOSE To examine the relationships between anterior knee laxity (AKL), genu recurvatum (GR), and general joint laxity (GJL) with sagittal plane energetics in males and females during a drop jump task. METHODS A total of 68 females and 50 males were measured for AKL, GR, and GJL and were instrumented to obtain neuromuscular and biomechanical data on their dominant limb during the initial lan...