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Topic: Foot

New Science about an old problem

April 3, 2018 Tom Welch

ONE OF MY GOALS in this column is to keep readers up to date on new developments that affect backcountry…

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Ankle Sprains: The Hiker’s Achilles Heel

September 18, 2016 adirondoc

In 1992, a group of wilderness medicine devotees at Stanford, led by Dr. Gentile, undertook a study looking at the…

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The Agony of de Feet

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I am writing this column while flying home from the Boston Marathon. Fortunately, there is no one else sitting in…

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The Ultimate Backcountry Mishap

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I’ll start with a mea culpa. I believe that I mentioned hiking without shoes in an article quite some time…

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Barefoot Hiking

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I’ll start with a mea culpa. I believe that I mentioned hiking without shoes in an article quite some time…

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Abraham Colles and his fracture

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Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physicians were notorious for attaching their names to various diseases, injuries, and body parts. The Irish surgeon…

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Healing the Heel

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A reader recently inquired about the problem of heel pain in hikers. Although heel pain rarely causes early termination of…

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