How Embryonic Foot Development Impacts Skeletal and Cranial Health

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We’re thrilled to announce our latest episode featuring renowned expert Dr. Brian Rothbart!

In this eye-opening discussion, Dr. Rothbart delves into the fascinating world of embryological foot types and their surprising impact on your skeletal structure and cranial health. Discover how biomechanical aberrations originating in your feet can affect your entire body.

Whether you’re a health professional, fitness enthusiast, or simply curious about optimizing your well-being, this episode promises to revolutionize your understanding of body mechanics. Tune in to learn how your embryonic foot development might be the key to unlocking better health from head to toe.

This PodCast can be viewed at:
https://podofinquiry.com/2024/11/embryonic-foot-development/

Dr Stephen Barrett
The Pod of Inquiry - The Podcast for Podiatrists

 

The most common causes (etiology) of abnormal (gravity drive) pronation are the two embryological foot structures I first published on in 2002: the Preclinical Clubfoot Deformity and the Primus Metatarsus Supinatus deformity (aka Rothbarts foot).

I strongly encourage you to listen to my discussion with Dr Barrett. Using simple-to-understand embryological plates, I walk you through the fetal development of the foot that terminates in one of these two abnormal foot structures.

Once you understand the shape (supinatus) of these abnormal foot structures, dimensioning (posting) your orthotics becomes very logical and simple.

 

Based on information provided by the International Academy of RFS, over 1000 insoles have been dispensed to reverse the chronic muscle and joint pain resulting from the debilitating genetic deformation, the PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity (top right insole).

Based on information provided by Postural Dynamics, over 100,000 proprioceptive insoles have been dispensed to reverse the chronic musculoskeletal pain resulting from Rothbarts Foot (top left insole).

 

Error Correction

Insole used to stabilize the PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity is on the left
Insole used to stabilize Rothbarts Foot is on the right

 

Rothbarts Foot - generic insoles can be bought online

• Flexible base plate - 2mm thickness
• Medial Wedge only underneath the hallux/1st metatarsal - medial height 3.5 - 6mm
• Low-rise arch support underneath the ILA; milder forms, arch support not required

Preclinical Clubfoot Deformity - you can modify the generic insoles by simply adding the rearfoot post/wedge

• Flexible base plate - 2mm thickness
• Medial Wedge underneath the hallux/1st metatarsal - medial height 6-9mm
• Medium to high-rise arch support underneath the ILA
• Medial Wedge underneath the heel bone, ending approximately mid-center of the calcaneus - medial height 3-5mm