Undergrad Podiatry Biomechanics

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I have recently purchased the two books of Intricast Newsetters by Kevin Kirby. They are excellent: easy to understand but worded deliberately and precisely to explain biomechanics within a physics framework.

I've only had them 3 days and haven't finished reading them yet but they have already given me much more confidence in how I educate and treat patients.

I wonder what texts are used at university undergrad level to teach biomechanics? I wish I'd had these 15-odd years ago.

Rebecca

 

This is what I was educated off of (in the last couple of years):

Frontal plane:
1 - Root, Orien and Weed ("summarised" but our library had no copy of the text itself)
2 - Valmassy
3 - Michaud - Foot Orthoses
Transverse plane (sorry for simplifying it)
- Kirby's rotational equilibrium articles in JAPMA
Sagittal plane
- Payne and Dananberg's sagittal plane stuff in JAPMA

Respectfully,
E.

 

Hi Rebecca,

When I was at QUT our main books were:
Foot Orthoses and Other Forms of Conservative Foot Care by Thomas Michaud
Clinical Biomechanics of the Lower Extremities by Ronald Valmassy
Clinical Sports Medicine by Peter Brukner and Karim Khan

...and we also had various QUT and Latrobe University publications where the lecture notes were published and purchased from the uni bookshop...

The above books all contain really good diagrams, but The Precision Intricast Newsletters by Kevin Kirby are particularly useful due to the application of physics principles to these anatomical models.

Regards

Donna

 

Hi Rebecca, can you please let me know where I can purchase the intricast newsletters?

cheerios

 

Try this miss gangrene:

http://dpmlab.com/html/bookreview.html

Regards, Rebecca