Kinds Of Plates Research Articles

THE "NEW HEEL"

WITH A PATHOGNOMONIC SIGN FOR DETECTING INFLAMMATORY LESIONS IN THE ANTERIOR ARCH OF THE FOOT The most frequent of all causes for painful feet is inflammation in the anterior arches. Of the sufferers who come for relief for foot conditions, the women patients especially—shall we say 100 per cent. of them?—have strained or broken-down anterior arches. It is, of course, true that in a great number of these cases the longitudinal arches are flattened also, so that there is pain in the foot due to stretching of ligaments and spasm of muscles; but still the inflammatory lesion, which is the main cause of the distressing symptoms, is situated usually in the anterior arch of the foot. I have seen a great number of cases in which the patients have worn all kinds of plates for years for their foot troubles, although their longitudinal arches were even normal—that is,