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Differences in leg length can arise from many and varied aetiologies. Evidence Essentials has previously addressed aspects of this topic: 2017: [...]

The Sustainability Panel at the recent Australian Podiatry Association National conference was an effective launchpad for ‘Green Podiatry’. The impetus for Green Podiatry comes from the [...]

‘Progressive varus deformity in a previously normal tibia’ first described by Erlacher, in 1922, and knowledge was further developed by Blount, 1937. Walter Putnam Blount was an American [...]

Description The Galeazzi test, sometimes called Allis sign or Skyline test, is typically used to assess hip dislocation, specifically testing for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH), and can [...]

This is week 3 for me consulting largely online, during this necessary and mandated time of physical distancing requirements. It is challenging and essential that we all do the best we can to [...]

The term osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) began with William Vrolik in the 1840s. OI is often known as brittle bone disease, and is a genetic connective tissue disorder, involving type 1 collagen [...]

The recent publication from ‘Walk for Life Clubfoot’ (WFL) in Bangladesh shares data identifying Factors Affecting Parents to ‘Drop-Out’ from the Ponseti Method treatment and the ramifications [...]

The recent publication of international normative data for paediatric foot posture collated the foot posture (Foot Posture Index: FPI-6) from over 3000 healthy children [...]

Footprints have long been used to measure foot morphology, with the concept of foot posture, arriving more recently – initially from Dahle and validated by Redmond as the Foot Posture Index [...]

A recent report from Professor Jens Oleson and Dr Sinead Holden from Aalborg University, Denmark suggests that Osgood Schlatter’s (OSD) may not be the self-limiting condition as typically [...]