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Orthotics and Rehabilitative Exercise
The following article uses a combination of the literature and what I have found clinically works in the prevention and rehabilitation of lower limb injuries .
The prevalence of lower limb injury amongst athletes has been reported to be anywhere between 19-79 %. Those numbers alone are astounding and it is no wonder that when researching this topic , I found no fewer than fourteen systematic reviews based on the prevention of lower limb injury . Many of the studies focus on the non-contact based pathologies : metatarsal stress fractures , medial tibial stress syndrome , patella-femoral knee pain , achillies injury and plantar fasciitis – surprisingly lateral ankle sprains , which have been noted as the most common sporting injury outside of non-specific bruising was not highlighted within the systemic reviews , however , this may be due to it being an umbrella term as opposed to a specific pathology .
Treating the whole person and not just the presenting pathology is becoming a necessity of the services we provide . Although in the podiatry profession we specialise in the foot and ankle , there is a need to understand the biomechanics of the more proximal anatomy to help identify movements which may contribute or cause a presenting complaint in the patients we see . As such , the way we treat complaints has moved from a seemingly
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