Foot Muscle Strengthening for Foot and Ankle Pathology: Mechanisms, Prescription, and a Paradigm Shift

For decades, foot rehabilitation was thought of in the same way as hand rehabilitation: fine, low-impact exercises focused on precision motor skills. Dr. John Osborne, an Australian specialist in foot conditions, proposes to break with this habit. His argument is simple: the foot and the hand respond to radically different biomechanical stresses, and model management of one on the other leads to…