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Podiatrist Sued for using "rigid orthotics with a heel lift"

Discussion in 'Podiatry Trivia' started by Robertisaacs, Nov 19, 2007.


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    Instead of....:rolleyes: can you guess?

    You heard it here first. Watch out all of you mad irresponsible fools who use heel lifts for short legs. Your days are numbered!

    As an aside i don't see
    " on any of my prescription forms and a google search turns up nothing! I'm worried at this gap in my education. Can anyone describe them to me? Are they fancy because they have a lace or frilly finish? Doilys as a covering material? Floral print?

    Source: ThatFootSite

    Regards
    Robert
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Nov 20, 2007
  2. Cameron

    Cameron Well-Known Member

    netizens

    The critical word is 'rigid' which describes the properties of the material. Most foot orthoses, bespoke or otherwise, fall into the semi rigid catagory. Rigid posts on rigid shells provide less opportunity for compression which may under certain circumstances potentiate secondary pathologies. There have been several attemtps in the past to link rigid orthoses (sheel and post) to knee pathology but to the best of my knowledge researchers have not been able to establish a true cause and effect relationship.

    Hey, what do I know?
    toeslayer
     
  3. Admin2

    Admin2 Administrator Staff Member

  4. Craig Payne

    Craig Payne Moderator

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    The amusing thing about the ThatFootSite thread is that it starts in the typical Rothbart fashion - a self promotional statement about a product that he has a vested financial interest in that claims scientific support, but he does not provide the reference (how many times have we seen that pattern before?).

    Dr Petros Kattou D.O comes in as the cheerleader for the supporters club (how often have we seen that pattern before?). In another thread he tried to pass off his RCT as supporting Rothbarts insoles. Fortunately he has been pulled up on that as it only had 8 subjects!! I see in another thread he posted a long list of research that supports Rothbarts insoles. I went through the list and I could find nothing that actually supported them, so not sure what sort of blinkers that Dr Petros Kattou D.O has on when he reads tham.

    The really funny thing, in that long list of references there is actually one study that they claim as supporting Rothbarts insoles because the custom made rigid orthoses did not work. What makes it funny is that the study actually showed the rigid foot orthoses worked, so not sure what sort of blinkers that they had on when they read that one! So if there is to be any sort of legal case, this one publication alone is more than enough to show they work! If you want to check for yourself, we had a long thread on that paper here.

    In case I am wrong, can someone please tell me where in that paper it says or shows rigid orthoses don't work?
     
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  5. admin

    admin Administrator Staff Member

    Does anyone know if this ever eventuated, or was it just someone blowing hot air?
     
  6. DaVinci

    DaVinci Well-Known Member

    I too was intrigued by that, so have been doing some searching. Could find nothing on the claimed litigation except this thread and the one on ThatFootSite. Searching for "Dr Petros Kattou D.O" not only turned up the threads at ThatFootSite and this thread, but also reveals that he is the Australian distributor of the rothbart proprioceptive placebos. He certainly did not declare that financial interest when he leads the Rothbart cheerleading squad.
     
  7. DaVinci

    DaVinci Well-Known Member

    I was searching for another thread and stumbled across this old one, so I though I would bump it.

    Does anyone know what happened to the lawsuit or does it look as though "Dr Petros Kattou D.O" was just blowing hot air.
     
  8. DaVinci

    DaVinci Well-Known Member

    This funny, I just did a Googe search for "Dr Petros Kattou D.O" to see if I could find more and this thread came up near the top!
     
  9. Steve The Footman

    Steve The Footman Active Member

    Surely there is a potentially successful lawsuit on the claims made for proprioceptive insoles.

    I tried to do that thing in Harry Potter the Chamber of secrets where you take "I am Dr Pettros Kattou D.O." and move the order of the letters around and make "Brian Rothbart" but it did not work. Does anyone know his middle name?
     
  10. admin

    admin Administrator Staff Member

    Dr Petros is a real person. He is an osteopath in Sydney. He used to lead the Rothbart cheer team on ThatFootSite until he was exposed as having a financial interest in the product - he is the Australian distributor. (in another Rothbart related thread here, there was an osteopath from New Zealand also posting glowing testimonials ... turned out he was the NZ distributor ... don't figure).
     
  11. Admin2

    Admin2 Administrator Staff Member

  12. Dr Pettros Kattou. Alex Catto.

    Coincidence? Or is there a cloning facility somewhere in Italy...

    Joking aside i beleive that the cheerleading squad do honestly beleive in what their selling. I just beleive they are also dead wrong. I think misguided rather than sinister.

    Regards
    Robert
     
  13. Secret Squirrel

    Secret Squirrel Active Member

    As we heard nothing more, I guess Dr Petros Kattou D.O was just blowing hot air.
     
  14. DaVinci

    DaVinci Well-Known Member

    The bumping of the rotbart again thread http://www.podiatry-arena.com/podiatry-forum/showthread.php?t=36679 reminded me of this thread. I guess Petros Kattou was blowing hot air. This thread started 3 years ago and we seen no court case yet.
     
  15. Course not. No such court case would make it anywhere NEAR a trial. Whatever the scuby gang's rather weird beliefs such a case would be judged on the bolam principle. By which using a heel lift in a short leg would probably not be considered negligent by a "panal of peers".

    Like most of the claims from that area it does not bear close examination.
     
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