Was having a discussion with a patient today about tissue stress theory and treatment.
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After we had gone over a few of this basics, he came up with ´its a bit like a car mechanical just fixing what is broken ´
I said thats not a bad way of looking at it.
He has unilateral pain and the next question was - why do I need a device for both feet then ?
I went on to expalin about hip and back being balanced etc...
But it got me thinking a bit - if we follow tissue/physical stress theory and pain is on one side only one device should be used.
Does anyone know of a study that looks at the effects of only using one device ?
We have discussed not mirroring devices, I use very diferent device design from one side to the other more often than not.
So why not a single device ?
Thought for the weekend...............
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Great question Michael and it has been asked of me by a patient.
I responded that although only one foot is experiencing a complaint, it is important to provide a similar yet independent support to the opposite and unaffected foot for symmetrical purposes.
We do not rehab one arm when there is a biceps tear, we use two arms to conduct our lives. The eye doctor does not address only the problem eye but the pair. Orthodontists may only seek to alter the position of two adjacent teeth but typically use the entire row in the process. We walk on two feet so they should be dispensed in pairs.
Some types of AFO devices are case in point. I see iatrogenic LLI induced low back pain due to the offset in height from gauntlet AFO's because there will be a difference in height and it will affect some patients. In this case I often provide an insole, outsole addition etc. to mediate this. Especially if there is a low back history. It is the same with an FFO in many cases.
Some people here have an issue with the word symmetry, I do not. As for studies I haven't seen any. It will be interesting to see if anyone has.
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For the sake of discussions
I also know of lots of folks who get plain glass in one eye and prescription glass in one. So yes they look the same in the frame but only one side is changing vision.
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Good question.
I'd answer thus (to you).
Orthoses have a wide variety of effects. There is the intended theraputic effect, reducing the tissue stress in the affected tissue. But there is a whole swathe of other effects. The kinetic effects of the rest of the orthoses. The difference in "feeling". The neuromotor element. The difference in heel height. the difference in the amount of room in the shoes. We seek to control the desired element but we affect many other things unintentionally and If we are honest, we don't fully understand the effects of these changes.
Tissue stress is about reducing tissue stress in individual tissues to within tolerable levels. There is an element of distributing stress amoung structures. To paraphrase the communist manifesto, to each according to need, by each according to ability. If we use one insole only I would have concerns that we would create such a disparity between function on the two sides, we would create other problems. Not least by createing a LLD!
Re the moon boot, that situation is a bit different. If you have fractures the "need" of that tissue to be protected is paramount. We WANT the other side to do all the work!
If I have one side which looks straight down the line as I would want it to, and the other patholgical, I'll do a "blank" for the good side. Minimal interferance, no posting, no mods and morphology similar to the pathological side. But I think it is right that they have something in both sides to accomodate all those unknown effects.
To the patient I'd say "otherwise you'll walk in circles!"
Cheers
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Also if using your arguement if the good leg was 5 mm longer then no device required ?
As to shape if you are using a lateral skive and lateral post to reduce loads on the medial meniscus you would do the same for the other, but you said you would not post, mods etc so what device do you choose then ?
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The thread is dancing around a very interesting question. Can tissue stress measurements, observations predict pathology. Even though a foot is asymptomatic, you could see a callus sub 2nd metatarsal or see a medially positioned STJ axis. You could look at the impression of the foot in the shoe and see if there were any areas of high pressure. Quite often in PT dysfunction the other foot has a quite medially positioned STJ axis.
So, if you have one foot that hurts and another that is perfect, then what do you do. To keep the amount of lift under both feet even I would make an arch support with no skives or intrinsic posts. It's hard to see how that could increase stress on any structure.
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Maybe I´ll try 1 device tomorrow see how it goes, but again I´m far from being 1 side painfree with no history of overuse injuries.
If you wanted to get quite fancy you could look at the cross sectional area of the PT tendon to see if any positive tendon adaption has occured. An compare this to the painful side and if the tendons have similar cross section area then treat.
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I like the tissue stress explanation of medial compartment pain with genu varum. However, I'm not so happy with the explanation of how orthotics treat patelofemoral pain. There's a thread in discussion of that.
Eric -
Good discussion.:drinks
When I give my lecture on the goals of foot orthosis therapy, here is what my lecture slide says:
The question then becomes, can we best accomplish all of the goals of foot orthosis therapy with prescribing only one foot orthosis for our patients? My answer is that in the vast majority of patients, we can best accomplish the goals of foot orthosis therapy by prescribing a pair of foot orthoses even though only one foot is symptomatic. Prescribing only one orthosis will create a limb length discrepancy, will create asymmetrical shoe fit, and unless the other foot functions perfectly, will prevent us from improving the function of an asymptomatic foot that may prevent pathology in the future.
I do, on occasion, prescribe only one orthosis, but these cases occur in only 1 in 500 patients. This most commonly occurs when the symptomatic foot has a short limb and shoe fit is vastly improved without any orthosis in the asymptomatic longer limb. Otherwise, the vast majority of patients receive a pair of orthoses and certainly the analogy to prescription eyeglasses is the one I use most often in explaining my reasoning for prescribing a pair of foot orthoses....not just one orthosis for the symptomatic foot. -
Robert, Eric and Kevin thank you for your insights and useful thoughts. I enjoy this so much more than certain OTHER threads that are making me :bang:!! -
You offer a lot to me in your posts always enjoy reading them.
Single device experiment has begun. As I'm biomechanically challenged I give myself a couple of hours, till a leg blows out. Anyone else care to join the fun? -
I have used one orthotic for the following. When a foot has been severely injured (crush injury or severe fracture), and this results in a limb shortening, but the non-damaged foot is otherwise functionally normal, then a single orthotic has proven to be advantageous.
However, it is not uncommon to see the greater symptoms on the longer of the two limbs. Some of the worst orthotic complications (ie, postural issues) I have seen are when a single device was prescribed and then placed on the longer of the two limbs....resulting in a chronic disaster to the lower back and cervical spine. Some have actually underwent unsuccessful spinal disc decompression surgery only to find that adding another orthotic to the shorter side solves the issue completely.
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lasted about 9 hours till the back started to say no more, but I am biomechancially challenged.
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Michael our interaction has always been positive, no worries. I felt that you asked the question wanting a friendly challenge and that is the spirit in which it was meant.
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A while ago I was dicking around with my golf shoes and trying to modify my in-shoe environment to optimise for the different demands on each foot during the swing. Tried all sorts of stuff over a period of a few weeks, and one day wore just my left device for a round. Next morning = bad times for my lumbar spine. Never again. -
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Yep - L4/L5. And a nasty side effect of pulling all my shots left, but in hindsight thats no surprise as I guess it was alike to hitting the ball from an uphill lie every shot.
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I wear an orthosis, singular, under my right foot to relieve my pain which radiates from my lower back, into my buttock, along the course of the sciatic nerve and into my knee and shin. Took me years of experimentation with pairs of devices to suss it out... One day I couldn't find the left to a pair of orthosis and as I was running late, I just put the right one in= pain gone that day. Next question: what kind of device do you wear? I wear a low density "old skool" AOL, but only when my back/ arse/ leg starts playing up. I slip it in for a few days and job done. It's now nearing it's 20th birthday. Trust me, I've tried lots of OTC devices and custom devices, but that's the baby that does it for me.
Talking of psychological influences, during the course of writing this, "my pain" has started to come on... Jeeezzzzz. -
Thats an interesting example. It would appear from that that the contralateral insole actually prevented the one under the affected side from working. I wonder why! LLD?
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As for you device if you the you tube cast on your left side, 3mm med skive with rev. Morton ext.materials of your choice. -
Tube cast?
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Oh that. Righto. Cast with maximally plantarflexed 1st met. I'll get one of my minions to do it for me. 3mm Medial heels skive and reverse mortons. I'll get right on it.
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Have you gone on strike for being called minions ?
Has boss man forgotten to ask for a cast or get device made ?
Is boss man walking around mumbling about kinesiology testing and you don´t wish to approach with finished device due to the 1 hour rant which may follow ? -
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Dear person who started it all.
1. No, we can't go on strike because he knows where we live.
2. He made a modified prefab by heating an EVA pre fab (slimflex basic) standing on it on a casting pillow and grinding the planter surface flat. We're far too lazy / terrified to make him an orthotic.
3. Yes on the mumbling and please don't start him off again as we're all out of Ketamin so we now have nothing with which to calm him.
He reports that he put it in his right foot not the left because that is the more pronated and pronation is bad. Wherin it has been bloody uncomfortable for the last fortnight. No significant sequellae, a little pain in the medial left knee but otherwise nothing to report on the plus side or the minus side. Aside from a background level of discomfort the results of this study appear largely unremarkable.
4. Can he take it out now please?!
5. Or should he mould in that kirby skive?
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Takes a hell of a load off the arch area doesn't it!! -
In fact I´m on it. -
As I understand arm swing motion, the scapula must release the shoulder to permit normal motion. When forward head posture is present, the trapezius fires out of normal sequence as it resists forward head motion. This restricts scapula release of the shoulder, and therefore restricts forward arm swing from the shoulder.
At times, depending on associated trunk bend, arms can also swing wide as a method of balance. Often, when this occurs, there are many associated neck/shoulder issues as overuse in the upper back musculature occurs.
Hope that this answers your question.
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