BACKGROUND Current international guidelines advocate achieving at least a 30 % reduction in maximum plantar pressure to reduce the risk of foot ulcers in people with diabetes. However, whether plantar pressures differ in cases with foot ulcers to controls without ulcers is not clear. The aim of this study was to assess if plantar pressures were higher in patients with active plantar diabetic fo...

Limited plantar flexor strength and hip extension range of motion (ROM) in older adults are believed to underlie common age-related differences in gait. However, no studies of age-related differences in gait have quantified the percentage of strength and ROM used during gait. We examined peak hip angles, hip torques and plantar flexor torques, and corresponding estimates of functional capacity ...

BACKGROUND Approximately 10% of patients with plantar fasciitis have development of persistent and often disabling symptoms. A poor response to treatment may be due, in part, to inappropriate and nonspecific stretching techniques. We hypothesized that patients with chronic plantar fasciitis who are managed with the structure-specific plantar fascia-stretching program for eight weeks have a bett...

A female, 42-year-old, smoking patient with previous history of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, undergoing corticosteroid and plasmapheresis therapy was admitted to the hospital presenting with important pain in the plantar region of her right foot, with difficulty in ambulation starting about one week ago. The patient denied the occurrence of any trauma, previous surgery or recent travel....

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to prospectively, randomly, blindly, and objectively investigate how surgery affects plantar sudoresis in patients with palmar and plantar hyperhidrosis over a one-year period using a sudorometer (VapoMeter). METHODS From February 2007 to May 2009, 40 consecutive patients with combined palmar hyperhidrosis and plantar hyperhidrosis underwent video-as...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effectiveness of ultrasound guided corticosteroid injection in the treatment of plantar fasciitis. DESIGN Randomised, investigator and participant blinded, placebo controlled trial. SETTING University clinic in Melbourne, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 82 people with a clinical and ultrasound diagnosis of plantar fasciitis unrelated to systemic inflammatory disease. ...

Dear Editors, Plantar foot injuries are quite common, whether acute or chronic, neuropathic or peripheral, vascular disease related, traumatic, or postoperative wounds. According to the physiology of the foot, it supports the weight of the entire body, and bears the friction and high pressure resulting from daily activities. Therefore, a wound located at the plantar foot is difficult to care fo...

AIMS Elevated dynamic plantar pressures are a consistent finding in diabetes patients with peripheral neuropathy with implications for plantar foot ulceration. This meta-analysis aimed to compare the plantar pressures of diabetes patients that had peripheral neuropathy and those with neuropathy with active or previous foot ulcers. METHODS Published articles were identified from Medline via OV...