Athletic Footwear and Orthoses in Sports Medicine
Athletic Footwear and Orthoses in Sports Medicine is a concise manual which provides a logical approach to prescribing footwear that will maximize performance and minimize injury in athletes. From fundamentals—including athletic foot types, basic biomecha
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Matthew B. Werd · E. Leslie Knight Editors
Athletic Footwear and Orthoses in Sports Medicine
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Editors Matthew B. Werd Foot and Ankle Associates 2939 S. Florida Ave. Lakeland FL 33803 USA [email protected]
E. Leslie Knight ISC Division of Wellness P.O.Box 8798 Lakeland FL 33806 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-0-387-76415-3 e-ISBN 978-0-387-76416-0 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-76416-0 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010922999 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
As the preface to this book tells us, its intent “is to provide a comprehensive resource on athletic footwear and orthoses for the entire sports medicine team, from all backgrounds and training.” This goal is achieved. The book covers it all, from the complex science that underlies those underlayments found in the athletic shoes of many athletes, the orthosis, to the aim of, as the authors say at the beginning of Chapter 14, Prescribing Athletic Footwear and Orthoses, “maximizing athletic performance and minimizing injury through the use of an appropriate prescription for athletic footwear and orthoses.” To the best of the editors’ knowledge, this is the first book of its type. And the editors, Drs. Matthew Werd and Les Knight, have done an outstanding job in assembling a talented and knowledgeable group of authors for their effort. Speaking as someone who owns a variety of athletic shoes, running, pace walking, cycling, and downhill skiing, and does not take a step in any of them without an orthosis between my foot and the shoe’s insole, I was fascinated to discover how much there is to know and learn about this subject. For example, we learn in some detail the history of the development of the modern running shoe, which development goes back to the time of the ancient Greeks. There is a comprehensive review of the history a
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