Gary Ward

16
Mar

Fibula Madness

Fibula Madness How do I put a big red X through this image? 👆🏼 Ankle sprains are notoriously challenging for people and in my experienced opinion NEVER treated well if at all (unless you consider RICE, ankle circles and standing on a wobble board a treatment 🤷🏻‍♂️) I apparently do not. Ankle sprains are one of the more damaging, long
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13
Mar

Beyond Podiatry – Part 3:

Here is the third quarter article that was published in the Podiatry Review magazine last Autumn. High time it was shared here on the blog. This one is all about the Flow Motion Model and brings together the ideas discussed in the first two articles. If you missed them you can read Article 1 here and Article 2 here.  Article

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6
Aug

Beyond Podiatry: Part 2 -The Foot; July 22

Gary Ward Article on the Foot. Part 2 of 3 articles

5
Apr

Beyond Podiatry. IOCP article March 22

Gary Ward’s Article for Podiatry Review March 22 discussing the core principles of AiM

30
Jan

Could there be more to my back pain?

Have you been looking for a solution to your back pain for a long time now? Tried everything? Run out of options? Been told to learn to live with it? I remember not being able to lie flat on my back in my mid 20s. The pain in my back was too much. I didn’t think I’d ever be free

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15
Nov

Meniscus injuries – What to look out for?

When it comes to injuries I don’t like to take a cookie cutter approach of ‘if you see this then you must do that..’ but in some instances there always seem to be some pretty steadfast structural scenarios that simply cannot be ignored. To not take the cookie cutter approach is to be more methodical, more investigative and to ask

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23
Oct

A wedge is not a device to prop a foot up into neutral !

A wedge is not a device used to prop a foot up into neutral! At first sight this may potentially appear an odd and unexpected thing to say… Shouldn’t we be using external devices to help flat feet attain a better neutral posture? Well, yes actually, but just not in the way you might think.  It’s a natural and initial

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13
Sep

Wake Your Body Up

Wake Your Body Up is a programme I devised at AiM to empower people to take ownership of their own body. The programme comes in two formats: Wake Your Body up and Wake Your Feet up. For many years I have been all too aware of patients and clients who have struggled along, often needlessly, enduring treatments that were proving

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8
Sep

Bunions – A 6 part series

Hallux Valgus 👣 When the foot pronates the forefoot abducts away from the body’s midline (see photo above). In this moment the big toe follows the movement of the forefoot – away from the body’s midline. 👣 A flatter pronated foot is known as a valgus foot. Bunions – although there do appear to be two types of bunions known

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8
Sep

Foot joint motions in the sagittal plane

👣 Joint motions in the feet in the sagittal plane 👣 Three segments:Rearfoot ✅Forefoot ✅Toes ✅ 👣 It seems that dorsiflexion and plantarflexion are only ever discussed at the ankle joint (TCJ) and rarely in relation to the bones or segments of the foot 🤷🏻‍♂️ 👣 Dorsiflexion is a direction. That direction is when the distal part of a foot

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