The Human Foot

A Companion to Clinical Studies

By: Leslie Klenerman, N.L. Griffin (Contribution by), Bernard Wood

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Paperback | 14 March 2012

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194 Pages

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The appendages at the end of our forelimbs tend to attract the evolutionary and clinical limelight, but our feet are as important as our hands for our survival and success as a species. We tend to take them for granted, yet the many millions of modern humans who run either competitively or for recreation, or who play sports such as soccer, tennis, and badminton, or who ride, or dance, or swim, or climb, or who stand and walk as part of their work, all depend on their feet. We submit them to unreasonable loads, and expect them to survive our pounding them on hard pavements. We also add insult to injury by squeezing them into fashionable but uncomfortable footwear which does not conform to the shape of the foot. All this means that many professionals make their living caring for our feet. Worldwide many hundreds of thousands of professional people spend most of their working life looking after the foot. They include orthopaedic surgeons, rheumatologists, diabetologists, orthotists and prosthetists, physical therapists, and podiatrists of whom there are at least 15,000 in the United States of America alone. In the English language there are two classic books about the foot, both by anatomists. In 1935 the American anatomist Dudley Morton wrote the first e- tion of The Human Foot, and in Great Britain Frederick Wood Jones' seminal book, Structure and Function as Seen in the Foot, was published in 1944.

Industry Reviews

From the reviews of the first edition:

"This book is the offshoot of a collaboration between an orthopaedic surgeon and an anatomist/palaeoanthropologist. ... The Human Foot is a nicely written book with 85 figures to illustrate the text. This book is intended for orthopaedic surgeons, physiotherapists, sports scientists and to anyone who wants to have an original look at the foot that is quite an intriguing structure!" (M. Mousny, Acta Orthopaedica Belgica, Vol. 72 (4), 2006)

"The authors of this text have produced a first class overview of the evolution and function of the human foot. ... This work lives up to its billing and makes a worthy companion to clinical studies. It is well illustrated, well referenced, concise and readable. Highly recommended." (Matthew Solan, The Journal of Orthopaedic Medicine, Vol. 28 (2), 2006)

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