The tarsal bones articulate with each other and demonstrate complicated kinematic characteristics. The in vivo motions of these tarsal joints during normal gait are still unclear. Seven healthy subjects were recruited and fourteen feet in total were tested in the current study. Three dimensional models of the tarsal bones were first created using CT scanning. Corresponding local 3D coordinate s...

Marker placement can be a significant source of error in biomechanical studies of human movement. The toe marker placement error is amplified by footwear since the toe marker placement on the shoe only relies on an approximation of underlying anatomical landmarks. Three total knee replacement subjects were recruited and three self-speed gait trials per subject were collected. The height variati...

A letter by Zheng and Xu in this issue of JMCP spotlights a consensus statement on off-label medication use, written by 20 senior chief pharmacists from 17 hospitals in the Guangdong province of China in March 2010. The statement’s provocative recommendations include the imposition of requirements that (a) the off-label drug should be “irreplaceable for treatment of the patient,” that is, no dr...

Several effective and inexpensive over-the-counter treatments are available for minor but troubling foot problems. In most cases, one week of therapy with topical terbinafine is effective for interdigital tinea pedis. Treatment of plantar warts with 17 percent salicylic acid with lactic acid in a collodion base is as effective as cryotherapy, but treatment must be sustained for several months. ...

It was aimed to evaluate the national congenital hypothyroidism program in terms of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) cut-off level, frequency of cases that required treatment and the stages before treatment in the Kocaeli district area. This research was performed with the contribution of Kocaeli University Medical Faculty, Pediatric Endocrinology Department, and the Kocaeli Local Health Distr...

Steady state human locomotion at level ground needs compensatory energy input against impulsive energy loss during heel strike. Ground push-off by the stance leg right before the onset of double support phase appeared to be four times energy efficient than the an active hip torque generation during the swing phase [1]. However, if there is biomechanical constraint applied to the maximum allowab...

Human locomotion results from interactions between feedforward (central commands from voluntary and automatic drive) and feedback (peripheral commands from sensory inputs) mechanisms. Recent studies have shown that locomotion can be adapted when an external force is applied to the lower limb. To better understand the neural control of this adaptation, the present study investigated gait modific...