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Managing Plantar Fasciitis - 2023 Update of Clinical Practice Guidelines

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Managing Plantar Fasciitis - 2023 Update of Clinical Practice Guidelines

By Sharon Morris, MISCP BSc Physiotherapy, MSc Applied Biomechanics, 18th April 202  This article aims to summarize the recent publication of updated clinical practice guidelines for the management of plantar fasciitis. The update was carried out by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and published in the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy in November 2023. The guidelines are particularly useful in supporting us as clinicians as we endeavour to use peer reviewed literature to enhance our clinical decision-making. Incorporating a Grading System This paper uses a grading system for the recommendation of different interventions based on the strength...

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Mark your Calendar – SCPI Podiatry CPD Day, March 2nd, Tullamore – see you there!

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Mark your Calendar – SCPI Podiatry CPD Day, March 2nd, Tullamore – see you there!

PPL Biomechanics will be attending this year’s SCPI Podiatry CPD day on Saturday 2nd March at the Tullamore Court Hotel, Tullamore,

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Determining when Fresco Felt and Padding is suitable for your Patients

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Determining when Fresco Felt and Padding is suitable for your Patients

Now due to increasing demand from practitioners PPL Biomechanics have expanded the range of Fresco felt and padding that we can directly supply in a MDR compliant, and efficient manner.

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CPD Webinar | Dr. David Armstrong | Diabetic Foot

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CPD Webinar | Dr. David Armstrong | Diabetic Foot

At PPL, we greatly admire the work of Dr. David Armstrong within the diabetic foot area. David's research and contributions have helped us to develop our evidence based product porfolio over the past number of years. We are very excited to learn of an upcoming CPD session which David will be providing for Gael CPD (Emily Haworth and Seán Savage). Please find all relevant information below and for any queries please contact Emily or Sean directly via the links in Eventbrite. 

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Intrinsic Muscle Strength: Is It Important?

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Intrinsic Muscle Strength: Is It Important?

For a long time, the plantar fascia (aponeurosis) has been given a leading role as ‘the’ soft tissue for maintaining the foot’s profile in gait and for stiffening the foot during the stance phase through the windlass mechanism (1; 2). More recently researchers have taken a harder look a the plantar intrinsics to see how significant their role is in foot function (3). Our intent is this short article is to answer the question; ‘is intrinsic foot muscle strength important?’ Foot rehabilitation is an integral part of foot orthosis design and provision, both for the intrinsic and extrinsic foot muscles...

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