Achillodynia and loss of heel pad shock absorbency

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Deutscher übersetzter Titel:Achillodynie bei Verlust der Stossdaempfung durch das Fersen-Weichteilpolster
Autor:Jørgensen, Uffe
Erschienen in:The American journal of sports medicine
Veröffentlicht:13 (1985), 2, S. 128-132, Lit.
Format: Literatur (SPOLIT)
Publikationstyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
Medienart: Gedruckte Ressource
Sprache:Englisch
ISSN:0363-5465, 1552-3365
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Erfassungsnummer:PU198504023650
Quelle:BISp

Abstract

The heel pad, with its specially organized elastic adipose tissue, and the importance of heel pad shock absorption loss (soft heel pads) in the pathophysiology of achillodynia (particularly in heel strikers) is described and illustrated by case histories of three athletes. All had unusual, soft, flatten ed heel pads; all were heelstrikers; and all were successfully treated with added external heel shock absorption. A diagnostic method to evaluate the schock absorbing ability of the heel pad is the visual compressibility index calculated on the basis of x-ray films of the heel, loaded and unloaded by body weight. Verf.-Referat