The Charcot’s syndrome is a degenerative peripheral neuropathy, chronic and progressive which affects to one or more peripheral joints. The pathology develops by a lack of normal sensory and nociceptive proprioception in the innervations of foot and ankle joints. The Diabetes Mellitus, with a high level of glycemia in blood kept in time, causes two […]
The macronychia is the abnormal increase of the width or length of nails. It can affect one or several nails. The causes are congenital or acquired, being associated with hippocratic toes, acromegaly, giantism, chondropathy, hypophysis disorders, and pulmonary chronic diseases. When watching the profile toe, the angle formed by the proximal nail fold and the […]
On November the 25th, Fitmetric, the department of sporting biomechanics of the Institut Català del Peu, gave a course about biomechanics in paddle tennis to paddle tennis trainers with the Catalan Paddle Tennis Federation. The aim of this course was to show the technologies of biomechanical analysis which are nowadays at the service of the […]
On the last 26th of November, Fitmetric, by the Institut Català del Peu, our sporting biomechanics team, was in the gala prizes of the 2022 season of the Catalan Cycling Federation in order to give the grants of biomechanics to the four award-winning cyclists for their sporting achievements in the road cycling form and mountain […]
Claudia Tremps is a regular sportswoman in our installations. The Institut Català del Peu and its sporting biomechanical department, Fitmetric, as biomechanical professionals and podiatrists, we are part of the professional team which help and work with Claudia in her sporting course. She usually visits us at the beginning and middle of the season for […]
In the newspaper dated 11 September last, “La Vanguardia” published an issue about the last technological innovations designed by Fitmetric (Sporting Biomechanical Department of the Institut Català del Peu). Such technology is called Motiontrack and it is about an application to visualize biomechanical and performance parameters of the sportsman/sportswoman. And now, you can read this […]
The subungual heloma is a commonly keratosis known as callosity which is located in the nail bed and underlying to the unguinal layer. It appears statistically most of the time on the first toe. The causes which help the appearance of the subungual heloma are several: Repetitive politraumatisms by the use of shoes with short […]
Are there any differences for the runner regarding contact time, flight, etc. among the different top models of running shoes with carbon sheet? A few months ago, our colleagues of Road Running Review, offered us a very interesting proposal. It was about analyzing biomechanical factors and time of footstep and flight of 5 running shoes […]
The Institut Català del Peu, through Fitmetric, its Department of Sporting Biomechanics, carries out a series of physical tests and biomechanical analysis of the tennis service with 3 different biomechanical technologies at the same time to 24 tennis players of the Catalan Tennis Federation, which is a part of a pioneering plan in Spain. Fitmetric, […]
The Catalonia’s Hiking Entities Federation and the Institut Català del Peu, through Fitmetric, its Department of Biomechanics, has signed a new agreement of collaboration. This month, the President of the FEEC, Jordi Merino and the Director of the Institut Català del Peu, Miguel Ángel Baños, have signed this agreement to add up efforts between the […]
