Background The aim of the workshop is to conduct a biomechanical foot assessment of the rheumatoid foot. Participants will be involved in an interactive workshop that includes patients with rheumatoid arthritis. We will examine foot-related outcome tools designed to evaluate foot function, pain and disability. Delegates will be divided into small groups to analyse and interpret temporal and spa...

background: actinomycosis is a slow growing infection due to gram positive ، anaerobic ، or microaerophilic bacteria. case-report: a 19 years old man with foot pain witch has a history of trauma last year trauma caused a mild erythema swelling & tendernss and heald spontenously. after one year he had foot pain during playing football. he didn’t have fever. cell counts were normal and the mri ha...

CONTEXT Wearing inappropriate shoes can cause biomechanical imbalance, foot problems, and pain and induce falls. OBJECTIVE To verify the prevalence of wearing incorrectly sized shoes and the relationship between incorrectly sized shoes and foot dimensions, pain, and diabetes among older adults. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS 399 older adults (227 women and 172 men) age 60 to...

Foot orthoses often are prescribed for patients with patellofemoral pain. The purpose of this clinical commentary is to review the theoretical and research basis that might support this intervention and to provide our own clinical experience in providing foot orthoses for these patients. Literature is reviewed regarding (1) the effects of foot orthoses on pain and function, (2) the relationship...

BACKGROUND In recent years, several questionnaires have been developed for the assessment of foot health and its impact on quality of life. In order for these tools to be useful outcome measures in clinical trials, their ability to detect change over time (responsiveness) needs to be determined. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the responsiveness of two commonly-used questionnaire...

BACKGROUND The majority of multi-segment kinematic foot studies have been limited to barefoot conditions, because shod conditions have the potential for confounding surface-mounted markers. The aim of this study was to investigate whether a shoe modified with a webbed upper can accommodate multi-segment foot marker sets without compromising kinematic measurements under barefoot and shod conditi...

OBJECTIVE To develop a clinical prediction rule to identify patients with patellofemoral pain (PFP) who are more likely to benefit from foot orthoses. DESIGN Posthoc analysis of one treatment arm of a randomised clinical trial. SETTING Single-centre trial in a community setting in Brisbane, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 42 participants (mean age 27.9 years) with a clinical diagnosis of PFP (med...