Kevin,
My thoughts exactly ;)
Cheers
Tony
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From: A group for the academic discussion of current issues in podiatry on behalf of Kevin Kirby
Sent: Tue 23/11/2004 16:40
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Subject: Re: Serial Casting for Internal Tibial Position
Tony:
You wrote:
<<As I stated previously my concern in providing an external torsion and where that occurs is a major concern.
see below
Pediatr Orthop. 1991 Sep-Oct;11(5):583-7.
Effects of lateral rotation splinting on lower extremity bone growth: an in vivo study in rabbits.
Barlow DW, Staheli LT.
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.
To study the effect of lateral splinting on limb development, 14 immature rabbit femurs and tibias were marked with six parallel pins. Of these, the lower limbs of seven rabbits were splinted in lateral rotation for 3 weeks (1-year human equivalent). The static position of the foot in the splinted group was 23 degrees more lateral (p greater than 0.05) than in the control group. No significant difference was found in the axial alignment of the pins across the growth plate or diaphyses between the splinted or control groups. This study suggests that night splinting alters the joint relationships and not the shape of the femur or tibia.>>
Now that you have done your literature review of the research pertaining to the use and effects of night splints, Tony, I think that you now should be able to easily to produce a paper for publication within the podiatric medical literature on the subject. I would suggest submitting a paper to publication to JAPMA or to the new journal, the International Journal of Podiatric Biomechanics. Eric Lee is editor of this Journal and I know that Eric is always looking for interesting papers to publish for his journal. Wouldn't it be nice to see the Achilles name as the author in a podiatry journal? ;-)
Cheers,
Kevin
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