Basketball and Volleyball
Fig. 28.1 (a and b) Basketball shoes must allow for running, jumping, and lateral movement, while providing lateral stability to the subtalar and ankle joints. (Courtesy of New Balance, Boston,…
Skiing and Snowboarding
Fig. 26.1 (a, b) Ski boot designs Tibial Varum Tibial varum is a biomechanical abnormality that can have a great deal of negative effect upon the skier’s ability to ski…
Court Shoes and Orthoses for Racquet Sports: Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Racquetball, and American Handball
Fig. 23.2 Sideward (lateral) cutting movements barefoot (left) and with a shoe (right). The shoe sole imparts a greater external inversion moment on subtalar joint than when barefoot Performance Optimum…
Evidence-Based Orthotic Therapy in Sports Medicine
The first study by Pfeffer [14] was a well-publicized study that compared the effectiveness of stretching alone to stretching in combination with one of four different shoe inserts in the…
Special Olympics: Custom Foot Orthoses for Athletes with Genetic Disorders
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017Matthew B. Werd, E. Leslie Knight and Paul R. Langer (eds.)Athletic Footwear and Orthoses in Sports Medicine10.1007/978-3-319-52136-7_34 34. Special Olympics: Custom Foot Orthoses for Athletes with Genetic Disorders Patrick Nunan1 and Shawn Walls2…
Clinical Use of Gait Analysis for the Athlete
Fig. 4.1 2D video gait analysis. Photo courtesy of The Running Institute Since most clinicians are likely to use in-office VGAs to assess their athletes, a suggested guide to obtain…
Specialty Running Stores and the Sports Medicine Professional: A Natural Partnership
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017Matthew B. Werd, E. Leslie Knight and Paul R. Langer (eds.)Athletic Footwear and Orthoses in Sports Medicine10.1007/978-3-319-52136-7_19 19. Specialty Running Stores and the Sports Medicine Professional: A Natural Partnership Rich Wills1 (1)…
Triathlon and Duathlon
Fig. 16.1 Reebok women’s running shoe The shoe upper which cradles the foot can be subdivided into a toe box, vamp, throat, collar, and heel cup. The closure (lacing) system…
Custom Foot Orthoses Prescription for the Athlete
Correction and Positive Balancing Another important parameter of the orthosis prescription is orthosis shape and positive cast work. Cast correction is the term used to “balance the positive cast to…
