How do feet and shoes interact, how does excess weight affect foot movement and how can we better understand the concept of the preferred movement path? The study references we have selected provide answers to these questions.
The Pedorthic Association of Australia is delighted to invite members, the wider foot related network and allied health colleagues to the Pedorthic Conference 2024 on 12th – 14th September 2024.
The international community of pedorthists is looking forward to the IVO Congress on October 24 and 25, 2024 in Fribourg, Switzerland. New scientific findings, innovations and interdisciplinary collaboration will be the focus of the congress, which will take place in one of the largest medieval cities in Switzerland.
The new issue of foot&shoe reports on the latest developments in the industry and includes articles on the provision of sensorimotor insoles and new studies on diabetic foot syndrome. It can be downloaded free of charge from the foot&shoe website.
Under the motto "Join the progress", the global orthopaedic treatment and care industry is getting together at OTWorld in Leipzig from 14 to 17 May 2024. In the three exhibition halls, the main topics on the agenda include prosthetics and orthotics, digitalisation, robotics and AI as well as compression supplies, foot orthotic production and 3D printing.
On 2nd February 2024, the graduation ceremony for the first PhD in Pedorthics took place at a graduation event of Southern Cross University at the Gold Coast. Sayed Ahmed graduated with the first Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree as a Pedorthist in Australia.
On October 24 and 25, the Swiss Association for Prosthetics and Orthotics and the Swiss Foot and Shoe Association will host the congress of the International Pedorthic Association. The congress at the Forum Fribourg will also celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Swiss Foot and Shoe Association.
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