Purpose: This study assessed the impact of different types medial foot arch on postural stability and core center gravity muscle activity among collegiate athletes. Methods: The sample included 103 university-level athletes across various sports (soccer, rugby, basketball, volleyball, field tennis, table karate, cheerleading) from College Magdalena (Colombia) who exhibited distinct arch: 32 hig...

calcifying aponeurotic fibroma (caf) is a rare, benign fibroblastic tumor that typically occurs in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, in children and adolescents. due to its infiltrative nature, this tumor can mimic malignancy on preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (mri) and has a predilection for local recurrence. there are very few reports in the literature that describe featur...

conclusions trichloroacetic acid and autologous fibroblast can be considered as therapeutic choice for recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcer. introduction foot ulcer, with a prevalence of 15% in general population, is one of the main complications in patients with diabetes. so far, different therapeutic methods have been provided for the treatment of foot ulcers. when no response to the standard tre...

objective: foot ulcer in diabetic people has a negative effect on their quality of life. it can decrease social activities, and increase stress. it can also limit doing job tasks, and increase life financial burden and high medical expenses. so examination of feet and considering foot care in these patients are essential. materials and methods: this analytic-descriptive research was performed o...

Professor Jones recently published a book on the 'Principles of anatomy as seen in the hand'. This volume on the foot is in some way a supplement to the one on the hand. These books and the other writings of this author are characterized by a desire to get away from the anatomy of the dead to the structure and function of the living, by an original and interesting approach to the subject, and b...

OBJECTIVE Although boys are frequently reported to have flatter feet than girls, there has been little systematic research to confirm or explain this structural difference between the genders. The objective of this study was to determine whether flat-footedness was moderated by gender in Australian preschool children and, if so, to determine the cause of this between-gender difference in struct...