It's nice when something says a nice thing about your work.
One of the ultimate compliments is to get some peer-reviewed work cited as useful support for someone else's paper. My first paper attempted to give a philosophical definition for over, excess or hyper-pronation (my preferred term because of hyper-extension/hyper-flexion etc. being commonly used). It was published in the Elsevier Journal 'The Foot' in 2017 and has now been referenced over 30 times.
However, the work started on this problem back in 2004, as a lecture for Biomechanics Summer School when it was still in the hands of Ray Anthony and Rx Laboratories before Langer bought it up. I had also lectured the year before on laterally posted foot orthoses for medial compartment DJD of the knee, so I was honoured to be asked to come back as a 'Special Guest Lecturer' with Kevin Kirby.
I was well aware of many issues with what clinicians were calling 'hyper-pronation' (or similar), and without a definition all research into foot pronation issues was meaningless. The Foot Posture Index was being developed at the time by Tony Redmond and his team. He kindly gave me permission to use and discuss it early on (2003-2004) but I could already see issues once I started to use it.
So 13 years after my lecture and conference notes on the subject were released, I published with Nachi Chockalingam our thoughts on giving hyper-pronation a meaningful definition. I expected some debate which would have been interesting, but I was not surprised to only receive abuse. Sadly, I have only been asked to lecture once on the subject since the paper.
I did, however, discuss the problem more extensively in Chapter 3 of Clinical Biomechanics in Human Locomotion: Gait and Pathomechanical Principles. The extra 'space' in a textbook allowed me the fun of pointing out that the plantar foot is part of the dorsal surface of the body, somewhat complicating the whole debate. However, the main message is that different activities and individual feet will demand variable quantities of 'proneness' making a quantifiable amount of foot pronation impossible as a way to define hyper-pronation. It's not how much you do it, but when and why you do it, and whether you can control it.
It is nice to see some people now get the problem, such as the authors of this soon-to-be-published paper on the Rheumatoid foot:
https://lnkd.in/eKUnAerK
The extremely nice comments from these two authors here compare interestingly with the comments from 2017 from my so-called peers, which still give me a good old laugh even today! Enjoy.
https://lnkd.in/eJK9v-3R
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