Regarding amputations, the stump’s more suitable length is the one who best keeps comfort, function and aesthetics. The prosthesis must make an exact alignment and to have an easy and comfortable placing. It is very important to have a static and dynamic rest, to re-establish the balance, to damp impacts, as well as to supply […]
“La Vanguardia” newspaper interviews Doctor Miguel Ángel Baños Bernad, also manager of the Institut Català del Peu, about the technological innovations that this center has and about the foot care. The issue, which was published on April 7th is entitled: “It is very important to keep a good health of feet by prevention”. You can […]
A few days ago, we had the pleasure to make a biomechanical analysis in the Department of Biomechanics and Sports Performance of the Institut Català del Peu, to the GP motorcycling rider Alex Crivillé Tapias, considered as one of the best from his generation. The biomechanical analysis was about the performance when braking through the […]
A few days ago, the Institut Català del Peu carried out a skeletal muscle biomechanical analysis to the weightlifting athlete Yosua Fernández, in order to improve his sporting performance. Yosua has been competing for 18 years as a professional athlete and he also has been a national trainer for 10 years. Regarding his professional success, […]
The dyshidrotic eczema, also known as dyshidrosis or pompholyx, is a recidivative eczema of chronic aspect which appears like a kind of vesicles of different sizes in hands and feet. The dyshidrotic eczema is not a contagious pathology and it appears making groups of vesicles with transparent or serohematic contents. Its cause is still unknown, […]
The Institut Català del Peu has inaugurated this month with DAR riders and Saló Darder Institut, the Biomechanical Analysis Department for bike fitting and motorcycling (a sporting biomechanical test which is nowadays the only one in Spain and Europe). This department of biomechanical analysis consists mainly of a photogrammetic analysis, through an electromyographyc register and […]
The Ledderhose’s disease is a kind of plantar fibromatosis and its main feature is the thickness and appearance of benign nodules with a hard aspect, and it can be round or flat, located in the central or medial side of the plantar fascia or feet aponeurosis. It mainly appears among middle aged or advanced in […]
A few days ago, the Institut Català del Peu organized a seminar for students of more advanced courses of Orthopedics, and this one was about the significance of the different systems of biomechanical analysis. This seminar was given by Miguel Angel Baños Bernad, (Manager of the Institut Català del Peu) and also by the podiatrists […]
“La Vanguardia” newspaper interviewed recently, Mr. Miguel Angel Baños Bernad, Manager of the Institut Català del Peu, because of the next opening of a pioneering department of the biomechanical analysis of motorcycling and cycling. This interview was about the 3D Vicon photogrammetry system applied on a new avant-garde project about the sporting biomechanics in motorcycling […]
The cellulitis is an acute infection with a bacterial origin which affects the subcutaneous conjunctive tissue, due to a skin rupture. The most common bacteria when the cellulitis appears are the Aureus Staphylococcus and the Streptococcus of A group (S. Pyogenes). The cellulitis has a cutaneous zone with a diffused reddening, pain, edema and occasionally, […]
