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'Equinus Is The Root Of All Foot Evils'

Discussion in 'Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses' started by NewsBot, Apr 8, 2015.

  1. NewsBot

    NewsBot The Admin that posts the news.

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  2. Admin2

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  3. And at the bottom of that it reads: Disclaimer: I am the inventor of the EQ/IQ equinus brace. To learn more about this device, please visit...

    Look at it, say what it is: it's an advert dressed up as a scientific piece (unusual in USA podiatric literature- not :morning:) - that's right, now walk away. Piece of ****, that's right, now walk away. But don't you think... no, its a piece of **** so walk away... I ****ing hate advertising wrapped up as science. Yes, so do I. It seems very popular in the USA though? Yes that's right and on Twitter too. So we have to be more discerning when reading their comments don't we? Yes that's right. Thought you said it was a piece of ****? It is so a piece of ****, so walk away... K? K, I'm going. What about the ubiquitous photograph of the smiling man in the lab coat? He's smiling because he's hoping to make money out of unsuspecting people who cannot tell the difference between a scientific article and an advert, he's wearing a lab coat to try to make him look like a scientist. A bit like the women who sell cosmetics at the front of the department store? Yes, that's right- we call this "marketing". Anyway, i thought you had gone? I have because it's a piece of ****- right? That's right, it's a piece of ****. Goodnight. Goodnight **** head.
     
  4. Griff

    Griff Moderator

    Does anyone have the full text of this reference they could send me please?

    Hill RS. Ankle equinus. Prevalence and linkage to common foot pathology. J Am Podiatr Med Assoc. 1995; 85(6):295-300.

    Not convinced by the quote given from it...
     
  5. Lab Guy

    Lab Guy Well-Known Member

    Podiatry Today should have advertisement on the top and bottom of the ad since there is an agenda of directing the reader to the writer's website. Instead, it is an article with a disclaimer and not a paid advertisement. However, Podiatry Today is not a journal where serious ground breaking research papers are published.

    Here in America, we are not naive, and know by reading the disclaimer that Dr. DeHeer wants us to buy his AFO. To me, he is bringing awareness and promoting his product in a much more professional manner than others.

    Steven
     
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    Association between Achilles tightness and lower extremity injury in children
    Raymond W. Liu , Katherine K. Xie
    HSS Journal; 03 June 2016
     
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    Gastrocnemius Contracture in Patients With and Without Foot Pathology
    James R. Jastifer et al
    Foot & Ankle International July 22, 2016
     
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    The Split Second Effect: The Mechanism of How Equinus Can Damage the Human Foot and Ankle.
    Amis J
    Front Surg. 2016 Jul 27;3:38. doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2016.00038. eCollection 2016.
     
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    Gastrocnemius Tightness: A Population Based Observational Study
    Oliver Chan et al
    Foot and Ankle Surgery; 12 April 2018
     
  11. Why are we measuring degrees not stiffness?
     
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    Prevalence of isolated gastrocnemius tightness in patients with foot and ankle pathology.
    Malhotra K et al
    Bone Joint J. 2018 Jul;100-B(7):945-952. doi: 10.1302/0301-620X.100B7.BJJ-2017-1465.R1.
     
  13. Stanley

    Stanley Well-Known Member

    Do you know where I can buy a stiffometer to measure the stiffness? I guess a scale could be used.
    What would be your criteria of what is significant?
    Where in the range would you measure the stiffness, as there is minimal resistance at the beginning. Towards the end, the stiffness of the gastroc/soleus kicks in.
    Can you point me to a study that measures this stiffness and correlates it with pathology?
     
  14. efuller

    efuller MVP

    That's an important point. You can't get a reproducible number of degrees of dorsiflexion without quantifying the force applied. However, you can't get a number for stiffness, unless you talk about position. The stiffness of joints varies throughout their range of motion. For ankle dorsiflexion, where the stiffness increases is what we want to know. (A good research question is how stiff?)
     
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    Prevalence of isolated gastrocnemius tightness in patients with foot and ankle pathology – a population
    based study

    Karan Malhotra, MRCS, Oliver Chan, MBBS, MRCS, Nicholas Cullen, FRCS(Orth), Matthew Welck, MD, FRCS(Orth), Andrew
    Goldberg, MD, MBBS, FRCS(Tr&Orth), Dishan Singh, MBChB, FRCS(Orth)
    AOFAS Annual Meeting 2018 1
     
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    Impact of Routine Gastrocnemius Stretching on Ankle Dorsiflexion Flexibility and Injury Rates in High School Basketball Athletes.
    Knapik DM et al
    Orthop J Sports Med. 2019 Apr 11;7(4):2325967119836774
     
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    Passive Muscular Insufficiency: The Etiology of Gastrocnemius Equinus.
    Shapiro J, Kamel B
    Clin Podiatr Med Surg. 2020 Jan;37(1):61-69.
     
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    Modulation in the elastic properties of gastrocnemius muscle heads in individuals with plantar fasciitis and its relationship with pain
    Ji-Ping Zhou, Jia-Feng Yu, Ya-Nan Feng, Chun-Long Liu, Pan Su, Su-Hong Shen & Zhi-Jie Zhang
    Scientific Reports volume 10, Article number: 2770 (2020)
     
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    The Effect of Ankle Dorsiflexion Range of Motion on Lower Extremity Injuries
    Breana Schuiteman et al
    SOurce
     
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    Modulation in the elastic properties of gastrocnemius muscle heads in individuals with plantar fasciitis and its relationship with pain
    Ji-Ping Zhou et al
    Sci Rep. 2020 Feb 17;10(1):2770.
     
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    Prevalence and Distribution of Ankle Joint Equinus in 249 Consecutive Patients Attending a Foot and Ankle Specialty Clinic
    Patrick A DeHeer, Sarah N Standish, Kyle J Kirchner, Adam E Fleischer
    J Am Podiatr Med Assoc. 2021 Mar 1;111(2)
     
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    "We conducted a prospective cohort study"

    jeez JAPMA !!! That was NOT a "prospective cohort study" !!!
     
  23. William Fowler

    William Fowler Active Member

    That seems to be a common complaint.
     
  24. efuller

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    Raises some questions.
    What percentage of those bilateral equinus patients had unilateral pathology?
    What percentage of the non mechanical pathology (warts etc.) patients had an equinus?
    What is the prevalence of equinus in the general population compared to those that present to a foot clinic?
     
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    A Predictive Model for Gastrocnemius Tightness in Forefoot Pain and Intractable Plantar Keratosis of the Second Rocker
    Mar Torres Cobacho, DPM; Jorge M. Barcia, MD; Valentín Freijó-Gutiérrez, MD; Fernanda Caballero-Gómez, MD; Javier Ferrer-Torregrosa, DPM
    J Am Podiatr Med Assoc (2021) 111 (3): Article_12.
     
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    The Role of the Plantaris in Intramuscular Gastrocnemius Equinus Correction
    Kristin B Kindred et al
    J Foot Ankle Surg. 2022 Jul 30
     
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    The Incidence of Gastrocnemius Tightness Among Clinic Staff in a District Hospital's Clinic in the State of Kedah, Malaysia
    Kuharajan Ramalingam et al
    Cureus. 2023 Jun 21;15(6)
     
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