BACKGROUND It is difficult to identify the range of gait deviations associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) using simple clinical observations. AIMS To use objective gait analysis to accurately describe biomechanical gait abnormalities in JIA and to search for common patterns, which may subsequently serve as a basis for therapeutic intervention. METHODS Children with persistent ...

Background Overweight and obesity are highly common in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), probable impact on bearing foot joints. Objectives The aim of the present study was to explore associations between Body Mass Index (BMI) measures health (foot pain, foot-related activity limitation, synovitis deformities) RA. Methods A cross sectional conducted 50 RA consulting a rheumatology depart...

Introduction It is often discussed whether patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) should wear orthopedic insoles or not. The functions of insoles are to minimize pain or to assist foot deformities. JIA often goes along with foot impairments [1,2] describe different deviation and deformities which can develop of various pattern of foot joint involvements, like pes valgoplanus or hallu...

Flatfoot (pes planus) is described as a reduction or absence of the medial longitudinal arch (MLA) foot, with without additional deformities foot and ankle. It very common orthopedic manifestation in infants children usually resolves by adolescence. Flat flexible painless no functional compromise so that physiologic. In some rare cases flatfoot can become painful rigid may be sign pathology suc...

Spring-mass models have been used to characterize running mechanics and leg stiffness in a variety of conditions, yet it remains unknown how running while carrying a load affects running mechanics and leg stiffness. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that running with a load increases leg stiffness. Twenty-seven subjects ran at a constant speed on a force-measuring treadmill w...

Objective: To identify integrated EMG (I-EMG) activity of 6 lower-extremity muscles during the 8 Star Excursion Balance Tests (SEBTs). Design and Setting: Repeated measures, laboratory setting. Subjects: 10 healthy young adults. Interventions: The SEBTs require the subject to balance on the stance leg and maximally reach with the contralateral foot along each of 8 lines extending from a common ...

Lower extremity neurologic symptoms are a common presenting problem. Here we report the case of a 73-year-old man who developed acute right foot pain and foot drop. History, physical examination, and electrodiagnostic studies were consistent with a lumbosacral plexopathy. Imaging studies revealed an internal iliac artery pseudoaneurysm, a rare cause of acute foot drop.

The importance of the physician’s role in examining and assessing the diabetic foot is hard to overstate.1-2 Fifteen percent of the 16 million diabetic patients in the United States will develop foot ulcers.3,4 The diabetic foot is responsible for more than half of the 67,000 annual non-traumatic lower extremity amputations in the developed world.5 Lower extremity amputation is 15 times more li...

Aim: Diabetic foot ulcers are the most common cause of nontraumatic lower extremity amputations in the industrialized world. Tissue-engineering products offer a lower extremity salvage strategy when healing does not proceed according to the standard of care. New allogeneic sheets are available for the management of diabetic leg and foot ulcers. Methods: The endpoints of this case series study r...

BACKGROUND Rollover footwear is assumed to provide an enhanced surface over which the body can roll more easily. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of rollover footwear on the rollover function of walking. METHODS Twenty subjects walked in three conditions: (i) a MBT shoe (Masai Barefoot Technology) characterized by a stiff sole rounded in the anterior-posterior direction; (...