Sunday, December 11, 2011

Running: The First Year is Critical Just to Survive

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CA Podiatrist Discusses Common Injuries in New Runners The most common running injuries are shin splints, runner's knee, plantar fascii...

Plantar Fasciitis: MRI views noting Inflammation not Tearing

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Dr Rich Blake and the Center For Sports Medicine Singing Group (aka Richie and the Saints) from Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Fra...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Nerve Pain: Email Followup as Patient Attempts Increasing Neurontin

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Good morning, Rich/Dr. Blake, I hope all is well with you since our last appt. Here's an update of this past week of being on 500mg of...

Toenail Fungus News About Lamisil (terbinafine)

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RE: Life-long Maintenance Regimen for Onychomycosis (Carl Solomon, DPM) From: Bryan Markinson, DPM Dr. Solomon laments the lack of studi...

Morton's Neuromas: Email Advice

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Dear Dr. Blake, My name is Cyndi. I am a physician assistant in NY. I have bilateral morton's neuromas (MNs). I stumbled upon your blog...
Monday, December 5, 2011

Foot Stress Fractures: Why do they occur?

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These 3 photos should the fracture of a 4th metatarsal while the patient was not in an overuse situation. Questioning did not reveal any his...
Sunday, December 4, 2011

Top 100 Biomechanical Guideline #55: Develop the attitude that supination is always "evil" and pronation may not be so bad

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When doing gait evaluation, contact phase supination where the heel rolls out (excessive supination or also called lateral instability) is a...
Saturday, December 3, 2011

Top 100 Biomechanical Guideline #63: Extrinsic Rear Foot Posts can be Modified in Many Ways

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The attachments in the heel area of functional orthotic devices are called posts (extrinsic rear foot posts to be exact). They help stabil...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Socks for Cold Feet: Infracare To the Rescue

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http://www.infracare.ca/podiatryusa.html Please check out this product for cold feet. Anyone with personal comments please be sure to comm...
Monday, November 21, 2011

More Advice on Sesamoid Injuries: Email Style

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Again I must apologize to Tammy and all who have been waiting for me to respond to their email.s. Thank you Tammy for re-emailing me to get ...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Lifts for Short Leg: Email Advice

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This email was received several monthes ago. I apologize for the delay in responding. Dr Blakes, I've read through a lot of your inf...
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More Email Advice on Sesamoids

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This email was received 1 month ago, so I am definitely behind, and for that I apologize. Dr. Blake, It's Victoria again (http://ww...
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Sesamoid Injury: Email Advice After Complete Removal Both Sesamoids

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This is an email I received 3 weeks ago. I apologize for being way behind right now with no end in sight to catch up. Any advice I give in s...
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SFHipHopDanceFest: Welcome to Hip Hop

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Had the pleasure of watching so many great performers last night at the SFHipHopDanceFest in San Francisco including our physical therapist ...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

When Are Orthotic Devices Too Old and Should Be Replaced?

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Collection of Custom Made Orthotic Devices Patients present almost daily with orthotic devices made in the past  and want to know if th...
Friday, November 18, 2011

How You Carry Your Stuff May Not Be So Good

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I chose Laurie because of how colorful she was here to demonstrate the principle of Equal Loading. Most of us carry too much on one sid...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

ICD 10 Coding: Revolutionary Change in Medicine for 2013

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This is a lecture I gave yesterday to my office on ICD10 Coding. This will revolutionize medical documentation in 2 years. I had been assign...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Heel Spurs: Some Are Just Not That Bad!!

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Here is the Bottom of a Heel Bone with a very large bone spur. The patient was told to have that removed due to the pain it was causing. T...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Sever's Disease: Growth Plate Injury in a Child's Heel

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     The above photo is of the heel bone in a 12 year old boy. The heel bone is called the "calcaneus" and has an important grow...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Onychomyosis: Toe Nail Fungus

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The photo demonstrates the use of a small piece of gauze laid down on the toenail with fungus. The gauze is big enough just to cover the n...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

The Ballet Blog: Looks Like a Great Site

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http://www.theballetblog.com/index/487-pain-at-the-front-of-the-ankle-on-pointe.html Here is a Ballet Question I get asked all the time....
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Monday, November 7, 2011

Want Stronger Bones: Think Purple??

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http://www.realage.com/health-tips/eat-prunes-for-strong-bones?eid=1010648608&memberid=31689169 Please read this article on developing...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

More Testimonials for Triathlete Coach Marc Evans

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MEC Testimonials from World Class Coaches   A central mission of MEC is cooperating with coaches of all levels. MEC works with coaches t...

Do You See The Knee Alignment Problem On The Left Side???

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This patient presents with bilateral bowlegs.  You can see in this photo that the left leg has more of a Bowing  at the knee joint.  This ...
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Tip for Adding Lift/Stability to an Orthotic Device

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When Adding Lifts for a short leg or some other purpose to the bottom of some custom made devices, and most over the counter insoles,  con...