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25 January 2021
Whereas some enjoy sitting down and reading blogs with a coffee, I’m aware it’s not how everyone best consumes information. As such I’ve been using Instagram to try and present some ...
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Should Runners Do Strength Training?
4 December 2018
Strength training for runners; it seems pretty intuitive. It’s reasonable to say that the vast majority of running injuries we see are due to training error – or to put it more simply; exceeding t...
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Foot Orthoses: Should We Think of Them as Medication?
8 November 2018
I touched on this during a recent chat with Matt Phillips on RunChatLive (catch it HERE if you missed it) and have had several messages about it since so thought I’d just milk the analogy as much as...
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Logical Fallacies in Podiatry Practice: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
6 July 2018
As clinicians it has never been more important to be evidence based (informed), to audit our outcomes, and essentially do the best we can by our athletes. Yet what we are not taught during any of our ...
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History Taking: Listening vs Interrupting
29 March 2018
What are the three most important parts of an initial consultation? As the old saying goes: “History, history, history”. There are many facets to the history taking, such as the language used and ...
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Do We Even Need Theories or Paradigms of Foot Function?
8 February 2018
I’ve been mulling over this one for a while and two things pushed it to the front of my mind. Firstly, a discussion on one of the Podiatry Facebook groups recently which, as is often the case, turne...
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All New (& Uninjured) Runners Should Wear Stability Shoes
11 January 2018
One of my earliest (and popular) blogs was Choosing Running Shoes: The Evidence Behind the Recommendations. This is almost 7 years old now, and it felt like the right time to write a more up to date p...
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Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome & Running Retraining
19 October 2017
A few weeks ago in Sligo, Ireland, Firefly Orthoses held an MSK Summit in a format that the conference circuit had never seen before (within our world at least). All 20 lecturers gave rapid fire 10 mi...
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2D vs 3D Gait Analysis in Clinic… Some Thoughts
27 September 2017
So this post is inspired by a blog I recently read on the Run3D website (see here) which was entitled “You aren’t still using 2D gait analysis… are you?” I’d recommend giving it a ...
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Patellofemoral Pain: When Should We Consider Foot Orthoses?
16 September 2017
Yesterday at the Annual Conference in Sports & Exercise Medicine in London I gave a workshop alongside Dr Simon Lack, a Physiotherapy colleague who has a PhD in patellofemoral pain (PFP). Th...
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Cuboid Syndrome; Questioning Beliefs
7 September 2017
I posted this video on my Facebook page a month or so ago and it generated some great discussion. I see an awful lot of dorsolateral foot pain which has been labelled under the umbrella of “cuboid s...
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Do we Know How the Foot Really Moves During Gait?
12 May 2017
It’s no secret that this is one of my favourite papers of all time and if students ever ask me what “biomechanics papers” they should read this is top of the list. To further spread/translate th...
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