Sunday, March 16, 2025

Article on Sesamoid Surgery and Return to Athletics

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0363546520962518
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Sesamoid Injuries: Thoughts on Chronic Inflammation

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Patients with sesamoid injuries deal with three types of pain: mechanical, inflammatory, and neuropathic (nerve-related). I thought this dis...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Tiem Bike Shoes with Embedded Cleats

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For times when I want to immobilize the bend of the big toe joint for a while, but do not want the unevenness of a removable boot, I use bik...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Good article about the Positive Effects of Daily Walking

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https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a62696452/30-day-walking-challenge/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGQbW5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHW29s2RxeMd0VQo3ghdUvW...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Great Biomechanics Seminar in November: Please read by Facebook Post

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So happy to be invited to give 2 talks in New York this Fall. The seminar will be both in-person and on zoom. It is the best United States F...
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Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Recurring Bunions: Great Article on some Predisposing Factors

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7322783/
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Chronic Sesamoid Pain: Possible Relationship to the Presence of Bunions

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This is a great review of something I think about, but probably do not consul patients regarding. The blog patient commented to me how their...
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Saturday, April 27, 2024

8 Fitness Myths to Reconsider: Definitely a Worthwhile article

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    The 8 Fitness Myths presented are true myths, but I will still keep my 10,000 step rule for myself (as I do long distance walks on a yea...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Ice Submersion for Acute Injuries

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Saturday, March 16, 2024

Great video on Diagnosing Plantar Plate Tears on MRI

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https://youtu.be/JQxweI_KJzY
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Excellent Article about Rotating Different Types of Shoes: Great Common Sense

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https://run.outsideonline.com/gear/the-three-different-shoes-every-runner-needs/
Thursday, February 8, 2024

Sesamoid Fracture presenting as a BiPartite Sesamoid

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Only the abstract is linked here. It shows the dilemma patients are left with when they have bi- or tri-partite sesamoids. Fractures are mis...
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Friday, January 19, 2024

NSAIDS (like advil and aleve) can Affect Bone Healing

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A well known fact is NSAIDs (non steroid anti-inflammatory drugs) can slow down bone healing. And like anything, one person will be greatly ...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Sesamoid Fractures: Typical Orthopedic Approach with Comments

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     I have just retired. My time now can be more involved in this blog I started almost 14 years ago. One of the injuries I write about, an...
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Monday, January 15, 2024

Stretching Achilles and Plantar Fascia for Plantar Fasciitis: You Have to Stretch Both

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1071100717732762 Here is a helpful video!! https://youtu.be/0eAqJ4-oKTM?si=t0NBhcIL1OsY_Oe_
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Slowing Pace Down can Improve Knee Pain

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https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0295645
Thursday, January 11, 2024

If Your Child Has Very Flat Feet, here is a Checklist for the Doctor to Evaluate

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10943496/
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Plantar Fasciitis: Stretching May Be Your Best Treatment

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Stretching of the achilles for plantar fasciitis may be the best treatment overall per this article. I have attached a video on Plantar Fasc...
Monday, January 8, 2024

One of the Most Predictable Reasons for an Injury: You had the same one less than 12 months ago

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Why is this important? Because healing the injury is one thing, getting at the cause and reversing it is another thing totally!!! https://li...
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Comparison on 15 and 25 Degree Inverted Orthotic Devices on Lower Extremity

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The following paper is a good look at the dynamics of 2 Inverted Orthotic Devices (15 degrees and 25 degrees) and the Shoe alone. There are ...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Chronic Pain: Ketamine May Help

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/26/health/chronic-pain-ketamine/index.html
Thursday, December 21, 2023

Secrets to Keep Moving: A Holiday 50% Off Offer from Dr Rich Blake

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I am pleased to add a 50% off offer on my book Secrets to Keep Moving. This will be for the first 25 using the code GD5YR4 from today to mid...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Sesamoid Injuries

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I have a lot of information to help you manage your sesamoid injury within the pages of this blog. Please go through the Labels/Index to fin...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Secrets to Keep Moving: Page 1 upcoming 2nd Edition

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Secrets to Keep Moving:  A Guide from a Podiatrist by Richard L Blake DPM MS 2nd Edition: Proposed 2025 Introduction       I am happy to emb...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

The Effect of Foot Orthotic Treatment in Posterior Tibial Tendon Injuries

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33040609/ Foot orthoses, together with exercise programs, seemed to improve the effect of orthotic treatmen...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Good vs Bad Pain

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What are First Line Agents to Help Nerve Pain when Diagnosed?

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6544553/      Here is a good article summarizing the progression of medicines used to treat ner...
Monday, December 4, 2023

Heel Pain: Treating Plantar Fasciitis; American Physical Therapy Association Guidelines

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https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2014.0303
Friday, December 1, 2023

Response Regarding Possible Contact

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Congratulations Dr.Blake on your new Biomechanics Book. Coming across your website has given me hope of figuring out a chronic sesamoid(I th...

Great Article on Choosing Cleats by Dr Spitalny

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https://www.hmpgloballearningnetwork.com/site/podiatry/sports-medicine/advising-parents-choosing-right-cleat-young-athletes

Link to my Kevin Root Medical blog posts

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https://www.kevinrootmedical.com/community/xenforum/general-discussion      I have been taking a break this year for 4 things. One is to wri...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Impressive Foot Problem Website

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https://www.foothealthfacts.org/foot-ankle-conditions/browse-foot-ankle-conditions
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Book 3 Practical Biomechanics for the Podiatrist

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https://store.bookbaby.com /book/ practical-biomechanics-for-the-podiatrist-book-3      I am so excited about published my third book on Pra...
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Friday, April 21, 2023

Make Sure Shoe Lacing is Tight!

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https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,14&q=foot+sliding+in+shoes&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&t=1682140474682&u=%23p%3DQu...
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Monday, April 17, 2023

Use this Website to learn Foot Anatomy

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https://radiopaedia.org/cases/foot-x-ray-labelling-questions This is very cool, especially if you are trying to read a radiology report to ...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Tibial Nerve Test Video

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https://youtu.be/qwbDfG71dgU      So many patients with foot and leg pain may have the tibial nerve as a component. They may think they jus...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

Big Toe Joint Pain: Could there be Nerve Pain?

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acr.25125
Monday, April 3, 2023

Excellent Article on Conservative Care of Achilles Ruptures vs Surgical

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2147/TCRM.S116385
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Great Video with 3 easy Internal Hip Rotator Strengthening Exercises

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=JlxndP60w8E&feature=shares
Sunday, March 5, 2023

The Importance of Extrinsic Rear Foot Posts in Pronated Patients

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Very Everted Heels with initial Orthoses and no Rear Foot Posts Subtalar Neutral Almost Obtained with Extrinsic Rear Foot Posts Applied     ...
Thursday, February 9, 2023

Metatarsal Doming (aka Short Arch exercises) shown to reduce pain of Pronation

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30860412/ https://youtu.be/GY-mJjXmeIc
Sunday, February 5, 2023

Balance and Flexibility for Movement

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Human movement is often taken for granted , but it is crucial tour existence. Movement for various activities is complex and learned. Wh...