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When Shoe Companies Make Misleading Health Claims About Their Products

Discussion in 'Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses' started by Kevin Kirby, Jul 31, 2014.

  1. Boots n all

    Boots n all Well-Known Member

    Excellent article KK, but with all due respect dont all of these companies have Podiatry advisor's that they pay.

    Were their Podiatry advisor's asleep at the wheel when these claims were drafted or did they help actually draft them?
     
  2. Actually, I thought all these companies had Pedorthic advisors that they pay....;):drinks
     
  3. Boots n all

    Boots n all Well-Known Member

    LOL, that might be the problem in a nut shell KK, they dont have a Pedorthist.

    l am currently out of contract with the companies l was advising, l am available at a reasonable rate:D
     
  4. Craig Payne

    Craig Payne Moderator

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    The problem is that the companies created their "sceintific" or "medical" advisory boards or whatever they call them with fan boys that just parrot the company line and do not give them the advise that they probably did not want to hear or were not interested in hearing.

    Just look at who is on the vibram board and they got sued for making false scientific/medical claims ... go figure.
     
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  6. Dr. Steven King

    Dr. Steven King Well-Known Member

    Aloha,

    Good topic and synopsis of the legal proceedings.

    Although I think many of the suites were just settled with coupons instead of hard cash.

    As physicians perhaps we should consider if our "claims of cures" for Podiatric pathologies is rightly justified. Dr. Nigg's latest book "The Biomechanics of Sports Shoes" has a lot to say in chapter 4 on orthotics. Could we be putting ourselves at greater risk if we direct a bright light on footwear and orthotics claims??


    Kevin is correct,
    "I believe that if podiatrists want to truly be considered the experts in foot-health care for the public, we must stand up and be counted as being the medical experts on shoes, shoe biomechanics and shoe health benefits."

    I would urge those of you interested in standards and testing to join us on the American Society of Testing Materials F13 Footwear Safety and Traction committee.

    A hui hou and the data is the data,
    Steve

    ASTM F13 & E54 committees
    Co-PI SBIR A11-109 US DoD
     
  7. For those interested, here is a pdf copy of the article I recently wrote:

    "When Shoe Companies Make Misleading Health Claims About Their Products".
     
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