The myxoid cyst or digital mucoid cyst is showed like a node or a benign tumor of fleshy appearance, remaining in the dorsum part of toes at the level of the distal interphalangeal joint and in the base of nails. It could be defined as a pseudocyst because it hasn’t an epithelium which covers it. […]
The orthoprosthesis is an external device with the purpose of modifying structural and functional conditions of the skeleton or the neuromuscular system replacing partially or totally part of the missing or inadequate member. The orthoprosthesis combines the prosthetic function with the orthesic one. The prosthetic function balances the length deficit of the lower member offsetting […]
Ivana Baquero, an international actress and who knows our methodology since several years ago, has made a routine visit in the ICP. These are her following most well-known films: “The faun’s labyrinth” from Guillermo del Toro, “Romasanta” from Paco Plaza, where she won the Goya’s prize “As the best actress of the year”, “Fragile” from […]
On January 16th and 17th 2015 in the Institut Català del Peu, will be given a made-to-measure shoes course with the aim of offering the student the basic abilities to make them according to every patient’s pathology.
The word syndactylia means the congenital attachment of two or more fingers or toes and it can be presented in hands and feet. It can be inherited and sometimes it has a connection with other congenital alterations like for example, the Down’s syndrome, the Carpenter’s syndrome and the Pfeiffer syndrome. It usually becomes apparent in […]
Between Torrijos Street and San Juan Avenue, the podiatrist Miguel Angel Baños from Gràcia neighborhood, combines the visits which makes the podiatric center located just above the Abacería market with the task he performs in the first place of Catalonia which has all the sanitary specialities which participate in the foot’s treatment.He is the promoter […]
The tuberose sclerosis or Pringle Bourneville syndrome is a dominant autosomal and a multisystem disease caused by benign tumors (hamartomas) in organs like the retina, heart, lungs and kidneys. This disease is included in hereditary causes as well as spontaneous appearance.It may affect to the brain and the spinal cord being benign or not cancerous […]
In this issue we would like to show our experience and methodology in the making of made-to-measure shoes. When I talk about this subject with other colleagues, I always like to state that the concept we are talking about is not “The made-to-measure shoe” but the “Therapeutic shoe”. The field of the therapeutic shoe takes […]
In the present study we are focused on our experience about the use of laser as the most current therapeutic system in the treatment of the onychomycosis as well as the results got through the therapeutic synergy of laser with the antimycotic topical treatment. The onychomycosis is an infectious disease which affects to the nail […]
Most of the ankle, knee, hip and spine lesions are directly related to the gesture which the foot makes. Feet are the support base of all the body and some alteration in them or an insufficient absorption of impacts in the sole of the foot has an effect in all the kinetic chain affecting to […]
