{"id":1054,"date":"2011-02-24T18:40:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T17:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2011-02-24T18:40:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T17:40:05","slug":"patellofemoral-pain-syndrome-consider-orthoses-or-more-comfortable-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/02\/24\/patellofemoral-pain-syndrome-consider-orthoses-or-more-comfortable-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Patellofemoral pain syndrome? Consider orthoses or more comfortable shoes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/current#Originalarticles\" target=\"_blank\">current issue of BJSM<\/a>, Barton, Menz, and Crossley&#8217;s report on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/45\/3\/193.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">The immediate effects of foot orthoses on functional performance in individuals with patellofemoral pain syndrome. <\/a> <\/strong>Their paper supports the beneficial effects of prefabricated orthoses. Orthoses &#8220;provide immediate improvements in functional performance, and these improvements are associated                                     with a more pronated foot type and poorer footwear motion control properties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Potential good news for those suffering from knee pain!<\/p>\n<p>Fellow blogger Ian Griffiths weighs in on the discussion of pronation and injury prevention with his recent post:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspodiatryinfo.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/02\/choosing-running-shoes-the-evidence-behind-the-recommendations\/\" target=\"_blank\">What running shoes should you wear? The myths busted<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>.<strong> <\/strong>He also offers<strong> <\/strong>a brief, and interesting history of running shoe prescription.\u00a0<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do you think about the relationship between foot mechanics and lower limb injury? Is shoe &#8216;cushioning&#8217; a myth and comfort the most important thing? It&#8217;s been a big year for changes in paradigms in this field &#8212; Benno Nigg&#8217;s work on the mechanisms of action, Irene McClay on barefoot running and new data on orthoses. Exciting times &#8211; gotta love new data! <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"tortoise on treadmill\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2011\/02\/tortoise-on-treadmill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Send us your comments and let us know what works in your clinical practice.<\/p>\n<p>And BJSM is on Twitter @BJSM_BMJ<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the current issue of BJSM, Barton, Menz, and Crossley&#8217;s report on The immediate effects of foot orthoses on functional performance in individuals with patellofemoral pain syndrome. Their paper supports the beneficial effects of prefabricated orthoses. Orthoses &#8220;provide immediate improvements in functional performance, and these improvements are associated with a more pronated foot type and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/02\/24\/patellofemoral-pain-syndrome-consider-orthoses-or-more-comfortable-shoes\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,1,195,1865],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debates","category-uncategorized","category-papers","category-sport-and-exercise-medicine-discipline"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}