University lecturer, clinician, runner, cynic, researcher, skeptic, forum admin, woo basher, clinician, rabble-rouser, blogger, dad
The Enko running shoe company went out of business. They filed for bankruptcy in October 2019
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The intrinsic minus foot is a foot type that can occur in diabetes when peripheral neuropathy develops. Due to the neuropathy there is a wasting of the intrinsic muscles leading to a clawing of the toes. As the toes claw, the metatarsals plantarflex...
The prayer sign that occurs in diabetes is when you place the palms of the hands together and that can not be flat and there is a slightly flexed deformity of the fingers. The Prayer Sign used to be more common in the past when diabetes was less...
Gowers’s or Gowers sign is a sign which indicates a weakness of the proximal muscles in the lower limb. The child that has this use their hands and arms to “walk” up their own body from a squatting position. The sign is a...
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a severe X-linked recessive type of muscular dystrophy which mostly affects boys with a muscle weakness that usually begins around the age of four and can progress quickly. They then have difficulty standing and most...
Soleal sling syndrome is an entrapment or impingement of the tibial nerve at the upper back of the leg where the tibial nerve passes through the fascia that attaches the soleus muscle to the tibia and fibula (the soleal sling). The typical symptoms...
They don’t actually do a lot, they are largely a marketing gimmick. Those with diabetes that is poorly controlled diabetes tend to over the longer term develop complications in the foot related to poorer circulation and damage to the nerves...
Diabetic socks are specially designed socks that are supposedly made for individuals with diabetes. They have designs that are claimed to help prevent complications associated with diabetes, such as foot ulcers, infections, and poor circulation...
Celiac disease is a long term autoimmune disease which occurs in those who are genetically predisposed where the ingestion of gluten leads to damage in the small intestine. It affects about 1% of the population. It is a considered a gastrointestinal...
Sticking some duct tape over warts or verrucae on the foot is something that you come across being recommended quite often. There are plenty of anecdotal comments that doing this does work, but the research evidence on duct tape for warts is not...