Josh Burns, PhD, was one of the keynote speakers at the PAC/PFOLA conference in Vancouver this weekend and gave some great lectures.
Josh and I got to catch up since it had been awhile (i.e. Chicago PFOLA meeting in December 2006) since I had last seen and spoke with him.
I told him about this article I just had published on "What is a Normal Foot?" and, after he read it, he said he agreed with my opinions I expressed in the article.
In fact, I was delighted to hear that he has already spearheaded
an effort to produce a normative database of reference structural and functional foot and lower extremity variables based out of
University of Sydney called the 1,000 Norms Project.
You all need to look at this thing that Josh is doing.
It's one of the most exciting things I've heard about in some time.
Great job Josh!!
http://sydney.edu.au/health-sciences/research/1000-norms.shtml
I'm going to see if I can get Josh to comment on his ongoing efforts to truly change the way we look at the foot and lower extremity by the scientific process of gathering data
from healthy individuals to determine what type of foot and lower extremity structure and function truly is "normal".... and what is not...at all ages.
Here's Josh, myself, Freeman Churchill, Jeff Root and Daryl Phillips all enjoying the view of Vancouver Harbour at last night's social event for the PAC/PFOLA conference.
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