Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Plantar Fasciitis

One thing that I have come to the realisation with recently is that plantar fasciitis is due to too much load on the plantar fascia (kind of simple when you think about it!). So to treat plantar fasciitis you need to reduce that load. You reduce that load with weight loss, strapping, stretching and foot orthotics. Pretty much none of the other treatments for plantar fasciitis reduce the load. That does not mean that they are not helpful, as they will help the tissues heal, but I have to ask

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Barefoot Running Shoes

It does sound a bit weird to use the term barefoot running shoes as how can someone be barefoot and have running shoes. There is a huge trend towards barefoot running which has led to an increase in these so-called barefoot running shoes. They probably should not be called barefoot running shoes and be called minimalist running shoes. They get called barefoot running shoes as they are so minimalistic that they are supposed to mimic the action of running barefoot or without shoes. The most basic

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Sesamoiditis

Sesamoiditis is a common problem in athlete with high loads under the first metatarsophalangeal joint. It is not really a sesamoiditis, as it is an inflammation of the soft tissues around the sesamoid bones at this joint. The pain of sesamoiditis is usually on direct palpation of the area. Imaging is sometimes useful to rule out a fracture of the sesamoid bone. The reason for the higher loads is due to the structure of the foot, most common a higher arched foot with a plantarflexed first

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3 August 1914

Germany declares war against France early on in World War

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Barefoot Running

Barefoot running is all the latest running fad or craze these days. Many claims are made for the benefits of barefoot running such as less running injury and increased muscles strength and a more ‘in touch’ with nature experience when running. On the other side of the coin is that its becoming increasing clear that the injury rate in barefoot running is high and they creating a lot of extra work for podiatrist and other health professionals that treat running injuries. The entire barefoot

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Monday, August 1, 2011

2 August 1989

A massacre is carried out in Valvettitura by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed 64 ethnic Tamil

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What is an authority seb site?

An authority website is a site that just seems to do better in the search engine rankings as it is deemed to offer something special that other websites to do not have. While the content of a website is extremely important in giving it the authority site status, the search engines are really just dumb computer bots and algorithms, so how can they determine the authority website status of a particular website. Probably and efficient way would be to assess the links to the site from other sites

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