LETTER OF GRATITUDE FROM JOAN TORRENT, FORMER DEFENSE OF BARÇA TEAM My name is Joan Torrent and I have been a football player of Barça football club. With these words I would like to thank the professionalism of the Institut Català del Peu. The tasks of these professionals are widely acknowledged by sportsmen but not […]
Regarding the checkups to our motorcycling pilots, we would like to thank Said Dahan for his kindness of competing this year having in his team the Institut Català del Peu logo. We wish him a lot of success this year.
We show you an alternative treatment to traditional insoles for the hottest period of the year. Many of our patients asked us for some therapeutic solution for the summer because the wear of closed shoes between june and September it is sometimes a disadvantage. There are some patients who need to wear closed shoes in […]
It consists of the joints between the distal peroneal tibia and superior aspect of the astragalus, also called distal tibioperoneal, tibioastragalus and peronealastragalus.The most important ligaments are the deltoid at a medial level and the ligamentum talotibiale anterius and posterius, tibiocalcanean and tibioscaphoid in a lateral level. The astragalus, is a singular bone due to […]
The bunion (photo number 1), an unattractive and common deformity of foot, of apparent simplicity, it is nowadays a serious etiopathogenic and therapeutic problem. The wide variety of suggested techniques for its correction and the diversity of etiologic theories, create without any doubt, a series of controversies of uncertain solution. The bunion must be treated […]
We were the pioneers fifteen years ago in the use of thermoplastics for making negative molds. We want to spread in this issue a good alternative in order to make molds. It is a fact about the variety of existing methods for the making of foot molds such as the empty system, the phenolic foam, […]
A plantar wart is a benign circumscribed tumour of the skin, highly vascularised, which can be present in an isolated or multiple form. It has a cauliflower appearance with some black dots in its central area. They can be painful (depending on their size and location), grow inside the skin and are usually covered with […]
A digital exostosis is a circumscribed partial hypertrophia from the surface of the phalanx of any toe. The exostosis is a process of the phalanx without a broken periosteum and with no migration. Radiologically, it is unilateral, with an osteocartilaginous configuration, without its own ossification nucleus, radiopaque and with no deference from the adjacent bone. […]
I would like to stress the importance of the diagnosis and treatment of asymmetries in this issue. Many patients are wandering around with a raised insole of several millimeters or centimeters without having examined them thoroughly. From my point of view, it is more harmful for the body in the long-term to use an inappropriately […]
Ankle orthoses, also known as AFO (ankle foot orthosis), are devices (braces) frequently used in our day-to-day practice among patients who have severe dynamic anomalies. This kind of orthesis is like an external brace adapted to the lower extremity that modifies the neuromuscularskeletal structure as well as its functionality.The ankle foot brace makes a plantar […]
