Dear Erik,
I remember reading "flat feet" article at least 12 years ago. It was
performed on US Army recruits. If I look at my practice, I would tend to
agree with the results, I rarely see people with flat feet with foot
complaints--the tendency is to hear from these people that their feet are
going to hurt because they have flat feet but they rarely seem to complain.
I would like to hear other clinicians "anectodal" experience (and research
as well).
Herb Silver
At 10:15 PM 1/17/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear Mel,
>thanks for that 'stone in our garden' (guess you don't know that
expression, it
>means as much as 'sending someone a small gift'...thus meaning, again, you
will
>hopefully attract some Professional's attention.
>Yes, I have come across some WEIRD tales recently... Thomas Tritschler, a
leading
>Manual Therapy teacher over here in Switzerland, explained us of some
study (and
>that's the hook : I can't seem to find any further details in my notes I
took...
>must have been around 2-3 pm in one of those Post-Lunch spans of
unattention...)
>WHERE SOME SCIENTIST CONCLUDED THAT IN A LARGE POPULATION OF YOUNG MILITARY
>FLAT-FEET (NO ARCHES...MAINLY LONGIT. BUT ALSO TRANSVERSE ARCHES
DIMINISHED...)
>HAD PROVEN TO BE THE MOST RESISTENT TO ENDURANCE WORK !!!
>
>So : am I lucky to have a set of flat-feet or should I do some
straingthening of
>my lower limb - c.q. foot-arches reconditioning... - ... ?
>
>Thanks for keeping us awake !
>
>Greetings from Switzerland,
>
>
>Erik Goossens
>Dipl. PT SRK - PT Educator Akad. TvdL Landquart
>Physiotherapie Erik Goossens GmbH
>MediFIT Medical Reconditioning
>CH-4102 Binningen - Switzerland
>
>
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