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  1. Rob Kidd
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    TOP BOOKS RECOMMENDED

    Even after all these years, I still think that Sarrafian is the benchmark for really detailed foot anatomy. Hardly a book to read though! It is...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Aug 1, 2023 in forum: General Issues and Discussion Forum
  2. Rob Kidd
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    Chasing footprints in time – reframing our understanding of human foot function

    Well......... That is probably my most erudite read this year - a tremendous bit of work. Did we note how the reference to Root at al was nearly...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Jul 30, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  3. Rob Kidd
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    Chasing footprints in time – reframing our understanding of human foot function

    I will digest fully and maybe come back to the forum with some comments
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Jul 30, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  4. Rob Kidd
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    So you think the earth is round?

    His third law was T2/R3 - that is the time of orbit squared, divided by the radius of orbit qubed = a constant (for that particular solar system)....
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Jul 16, 2023 in forum: Podiatry Trivia
  5. Rob Kidd
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    So you think the earth is round?

    Kepler's laws address the issue of spheroidal morphology, applicable to all orbiting bodies. Law one (paraphrased) states that all orbits are...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Jul 16, 2023 in forum: Podiatry Trivia
  6. Rob Kidd
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    So you think the earth is round?

    Quote a properly refereed paper and I will listen. And no, The Earth is not round, but it is not flat. While not directly relevant, you may like...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Jul 12, 2023 in forum: Podiatry Trivia
  7. Rob Kidd
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    Foot Embryogenesis - First Trimester

    Yes, but where is it published in a referreed journal?
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Jun 18, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  8. Rob Kidd
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    Foot Embryogenesis - First Trimester

    And your work is published - where?
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Jun 17, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  9. Rob Kidd
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    Rothbarts Foot and PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity

    In which case it has no academic value. Yes, none.
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Jun 7, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  10. Rob Kidd
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    Rothbarts Foot and PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity

    "The Plantar Grade Foot vs. Morton’s Foot, Rothbarts Foot and the PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity (Rev 05/26/2023)" Does not explain where it was...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Jun 6, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  11. Rob Kidd
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    Chronic Pain Symptoms You Might Never Expect Are Coming from Your Feet

    No you do not.
    Post by: Rob Kidd, May 28, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  12. Rob Kidd
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    Chronic Pain Symptoms You Might Never Expect Are Coming from Your Feet

    That is not what I asked. I asked: what peer reviewed journal is it published in?
    Post by: Rob Kidd, May 28, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  13. Rob Kidd
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    Chronic Pain Symptoms You Might Never Expect Are Coming from Your Feet

    So which publication was it published in?
    Post by: Rob Kidd, May 27, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  14. Rob Kidd
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    Chronic Pain Symptoms You Might Never Expect Are Coming from Your Feet

    It is not refereed, and the only references are yourself. It simple does not cut the mustard
    Post by: Rob Kidd, May 27, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  15. Rob Kidd
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    PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity Identified in A.Sediba which Lived 2 Million Years Ago

    There is zero evidence that any of the fossil record is a [direct] ancestor or anticedent of any other in the record, including Homo sapiens. You...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Apr 5, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  16. Rob Kidd
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    PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity Identified in A.Sediba which Lived 2 Million Years Ago

    With respect, no they do not. Do they report on the "angular changes in the primate talus"? Do they report on the changing relationship between...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Apr 5, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  17. Rob Kidd
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    PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity Identified in A.Sediba which Lived 2 Million Years Ago

    I did not used the expression "calcaneal supinatus". Looking at an isolated fossil tells you nothing about the normal ontogenetic shape changes...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Apr 4, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  18. Rob Kidd
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    PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity Identified in A.Sediba which Lived 2 Million Years Ago

    What I meant, said perhaps a little clumsily, is that rearfoot varus is the norm - and that the concept of a vertical calcaneus in ST neutral is...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Apr 4, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  19. Rob Kidd
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    PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity Identified in A.Sediba which Lived 2 Million Years Ago

    The so-called calcaneal inversion (which does not equal supinatus) is a routine finding in the all great apes apart from Homo sapiens. And, any...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Apr 3, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  20. Rob Kidd
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    PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity Identified in A.Sediba which Lived 2 Million Years Ago

    And Rob Kidd Writes: I looked at one publication by example: Etiology of Clubfoot Deformity, Preclinical Clubfoot Deformity and PMS foot...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Mar 29, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  21. Rob Kidd
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    PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity Identified in A.Sediba which Lived 2 Million Years Ago

    And I am awaiting, baited breath, to read your research in referred journals: do please provide your academic CV. We are all waiting to devour them.
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Mar 22, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  22. Rob Kidd
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    PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity Identified in A.Sediba which Lived 2 Million Years Ago

    We have all heard of researchgate and I respectfully suggest that you are hiding behind it. I would suggest that it would be really informative if...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Mar 17, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  23. Rob Kidd
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    Mechanical Analysis of Foot Plantar Fascia

    Interestingly I have just marked a Masters Thesis from a university that you have all heard of, on among other things, the plantar fascia. I...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Mar 16, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  24. Rob Kidd
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    PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity Identified in A.Sediba which Lived 2 Million Years Ago

    ******************************************************* It is certainly true that there is an old adage (to use your words) that "Ontogeny...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Mar 15, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  25. Rob Kidd
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    Pilot Study Quantifies Proprioceptive Insole

    The unit of Newtons is one of force. Pronation and supination are movements, in this context around joint axes and are measured in degrees. That...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Feb 28, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
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    Foot Windlass Mechanics

    "Archaeological" is a description of my work used only by you. My very modest contribution has been decidedly anthropological (which is not the...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Feb 21, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
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    Foot Windlass Mechanics

    You may wish to look at these rather ancient studies. Dr Duffin was a PhD student of mine a fair time ago and is a podiatrist; Rosalind Kidd was a...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Feb 20, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  28. Rob Kidd
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    Foot Windlass Mechanics

    I choose not to get involved in this. My research has been in several disciplines.
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Feb 20, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  29. Rob Kidd
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    Foot Windlass Mechanics

    I see we are back to self grandiosement again. I took your so-called PhD into work a few months ago to show our current bunch of graduate students...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Feb 4, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  30. Rob Kidd
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    Foot Windlass Mechanics

    While this is a very important piece of pedal mechanics, it is hardly new. Hicks, to the best of my knowledge first described this is 1954, the...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Feb 2, 2023 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  31. Rob Kidd
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    Nurse to podiatrist

    As a retired podiatry teacher, I can tell you that I have taught dozens of nurses through podiatric medicine. I am now based in Australia, though...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Dec 18, 2022 in forum: United Kingdom
  32. Rob Kidd
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    Weird Lumps on My Son’s Feet

    Take any opinion from me with a pinch of salt - I am no longer registered. However to me they look like ganglions from the extensor tendons.
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Oct 20, 2022 in forum: General Issues and Discussion Forum
  33. Rob Kidd
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    First Metatarsophalangeal Head Morphology --> Hallux Rigidus or Hallux Valgus

    And yet again the world runs away from serious thinking. Metatarsal head shape: cause of, or caused by? Very basic thinking recognises that bone...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Aug 5, 2022 in forum: General Issues and Discussion Forum
  34. Rob Kidd
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    The Foot and Ankle of Australopithecus sediba

    Dr Bernhard Zipfel was a PhD student of mine (and Professor Lee Berger's); to say that I am proud of him is the understatement of the century.
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Apr 5, 2022 in forum: General Issues and Discussion Forum
  35. Rob Kidd
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    A Possible Alternative to Proprioceptive Insoles – Epigenetics

    I do not even recognise the phrase "gravity drive pronation" in science class. However, epingenetic intevation (to use your phrase). implies a...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Jan 4, 2022 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  36. Rob Kidd
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    A Possible Alternative to Proprioceptive Insoles – Epigenetics

    I have watched from afar, and now am in despair at the lack of science in this thread. Be quite clear, epigenesis is real. It was first described,...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Jan 3, 2022 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  37. Rob Kidd
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    I want to become a podiatrist but may have missed the boat. Mother of two new career

    If it matters to you - just do it, and do not wait, do it now. I am sure you will find a way to educate around the kids - just do it.
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Dec 31, 2021 in forum: Teaching and Learning
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    Occam's Razon or the Law of Parsimony

    Several issues here - one must separate issues. Jerry and I were two of the authors of the original description of A. sediba, first published in...
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Dec 10, 2021 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  39. Rob Kidd
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    Occam's Razon or the Law of Parsimony

    Please would you point me towards where I can read about these in a referreed biological journal. Ta
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Nov 17, 2021 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
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    Occam's Razon or the Law of Parsimony

    Please may we learn to spell sagittal?
    Post by: Rob Kidd, Nov 6, 2021 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
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