INTERESTING!

 

I got a little bit of a chuckle from this one. With all the medial attention (and attention from a few here on Podiatry Arena) about Vibram shoes, and about how great Vibrams are, with Vibrams being more natural and such, and then seeing that runners are over 200 times more likely to be running in Asics brand shoes than in Vibrams. Like I said before.....everyone is talking about the barefoot thing....but virtually no-one is doing it! What a joke!

 

It sure seems that way Kevin doesn't it? I've yet to have one runner in the office who actually runs barefoot, which surprised me given the fervor of that thread on barefoot running. Its not a knock on the adherents to the genre just an observation.

I need to buy Asics stock immediately, just sayin'!

 

That's because they are all injury free David.......we are obselete;)

Robin

 

One stark thing that I noticed was the % of injured patients seeing Physio. I think this is an area the professional associations need to do a much better job of promoting the Podiatry profession in Australia. I think Podiatry should/would want a greater % of those injured runners coming through our doors!

Any one else with similar thoughts?

 

Ben, there are about 2000 registered Pods in Australia and at least 15,000 physios, so the result is actually quite good.

A Pod to Physio ratio of 1:7.5
A use of Pod to Physio ratio 1:3.3

so really people are twice as likely to seek the services of a podiatrist, there just aren't enough of us.