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You will have been following the discussions occurring in Glasgow this last week, as world leaders gather for vital discussions to commit to urgent global climate action. It is well evident that [...]

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 [...]