Welcome to the Podiatry Arena forums

You are currently viewing our podiatry forum as a guest which gives you limited access to view all podiatry discussions and access our other features. By joining our free global community of Podiatrists and other interested foot health care professionals you will have access to post podiatry topics (answer and ask questions), communicate privately with other members, upload content, view attachments, receive a weekly email update of new discussions, access other special features. Registered users do not get displayed the advertisements in posted messages. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our global Podiatry community today!

  1. Have you considered the Clinical Biomechanics Boot Camp Online, for taking it to the next level? See here for more.
    Dismiss Notice
Dismiss Notice
Have you considered the Clinical Biomechanics Boot Camp Online, for taking it to the next level? See here for more.
Dismiss Notice
Have you liked us on Facebook to get our updates? Please do. Click here for our Facebook page.
Dismiss Notice
Do you get the weekly newsletter that Podiatry Arena sends out to update everybody? If not, click here to organise this.

Hi Newbie fr S'pore here

Discussion in 'Introductions' started by homeless_andy, May 12, 2011.

  1. homeless_andy

    homeless_andy Member


    Members do not see these Ads. Sign Up.
    Hi everyone

    I graduated with bachelor in sports & outdoor from Monash University 08 and i'm an mid-dist to marathoner hoping to qualify for Boston. Apart fr sport performance I'm very keen in sports injuries esp. LL.

    Currently I'm working at a local performance running footwear company as Technical Specialist. I handle alot of customers with foot injury and with wrong shoe fitting. Also I realized footwear companies basically use static 'wet' test or walking gait to recommend running shoes to consumers which is not specific. Also walking gait can be different during running. i.e. we know that someone with pes cavus during 'wet test' can overpronate at midstance if there is crossing over. I'm hoping to change the mindset of footwear companies and the best is through education. Working with physiotherapists & podiatrists can help to maintain up to date infor for the commercial sectors.

    I personally endured 2 years of PF and have gone through conservative Tx, massage, instrinsic mm. strengthening, corticosteriods injection and as well as ESWT. Fortunately my PF healed 100% with ESWT, avoiding invasive operation.

    Hence by participating in this forum i hope to absorb as much infor from the experts here and uphold my role to educate my consumers.

    Cheers
    Andy :D
     
  2. Admin2

    Admin2 Administrator Staff Member

    Hi

    Welcome to the forum!

    Your marathon running sounds very interesting. Can you tell us more?

    Admin2
     
  3. homeless_andy

    homeless_andy Member

    My marathon? i did my 2nd Marathon in S'pore last year in 3:28. The heat & humidity here is madness... This year i just did a 1:27 for 21k race last month and now training towards a 1:24 (equal to 4min/k pace). As we know Boston has reduced 5min to all cat qualifying time.... i need to work harder to do sub 3:05 for my age grp. Hopefully i can qualify by using next year cooler temp. Gold Coast Marathon since climate does help to prevent core temp. from elevating too fast.

    Hx of my LL injury - 2 yrs of right PF. Went through 6months of Rehab with my physio... Tx includes ultra-sound modality, customized orthotics, trigger pt release of calf, instrinsic mm. Ex. (toe grabbing), plantar rolling etc but all in vain to reduce the pain... my sport physician suggested corticosteroids & this miracle jab barely last me 6mths before relapse. I have to blame on myself as i continue to train hard during that window and the pain level went up. My last resort was to have ESWT and after 2 sessions i was completely healed. i did merely aqua run for 3 mths after ESWT before resuming land running. Now i'm glad to say i have 100% recovered.

    I do have hypermobile arch on affected side. My navicular drop test was 12mm after avg 3 attempts. Prior to my injury i was wearing cushioning shoes with 22mm-10mm heel to toe gradient. Now i changed to stability racers like adiozero mana 5 (19mm-11mm) with no inserts. I still tape my plantar for arch support bilaterally and I do barefoot grass run for easy recovery + strengthening of foot proprioception.

    Sorry for the long draggy reply. Although i grad with a sport degree but I sure do hope to learn more from many exp. pod. here! Learning is never ending =D
     
Loading...

Share This Page