-Prevention before the practice of sport is the key to the health of the foot.

-El Centre Cultural Caja Rioja – Gran Vía welcomed on Tuesday 17 January, at 20.00 hours, a new conference entitled health classroom “ what your feet do not embitter you life. Biomechanics of the tread. Prepares your feet for sport ”. At the Conference, the foundations of our bone structure have been analyzed by Dr. Pedro Terrero Blasco, specialist in sports medicine and doctor of the city of Logroño Handball Club – Naturhouse; Podiatrist and director of the unit of biomechanics Podoactiva – los Manzanos, Javier Alfaro Santafé; and the physiotherapist of the Center Viamed Los Manzanos José Javier Fernández González.

-the unit of biomechanics Podoactiva – Los Manzanos is an ambitious project for the study of the imbalances of the March and the gesture sport, recently opened, which bring together a multidisciplinary team and a technological equipment of last generation. In the classroom, Javier Alfaro explained the most frequent pathologies affecting our feet both daily life and sport. Physical therapist José Javier Fernández explained the relationship between problems of knee, hip and back with an imbalance in the operation and his physiotherapist treatment; and Dr. Peter Terrero, addressed the importance of the study and treatment of the feet, fundamental in the elite sportsman and also very important in the amateur athlete. Also referred to early diagnosis and prevention studies in children

-pathologies such as fasctitis Plantar, metatarsalgias, spurs calcáneos, sprains of repetition… and others which do not directly affect the foot as wear and tear of cartilage in knees, lumbago, overloads, etc may be caused by a defective tread

Feet give us support, work virtually all the time but still tend to remain in oblivion. Usually on the feet is provided attention only when they begin to fail or produce discomfort, “ never or almost never to prevent ”, say specialists.

Feet are a complex structure composed of 26 bones, 33 joints and more than 100 tendons, muscles and ligaments, and are responsible for maintaining our bone structure in perfect balance. ” The body is a perfect balance ”-explains the Podiatrist Javier Alfaro – “ all that breaks that balance will influence the mechanics of the body: adera, spine, knee …. That is why we have created a biomechanical unit that combines a multidisciplinary team and a technological equipment of last generation to study imbalances of the March and the sports gesture ”. In this line, the specialist added that the sporting gesture biomechanical analysis “ gives us a very valuable information in order to carry out preventive actions and largely avoid the appearance of lesions and even anticipate the occurrence of the injury. Biomechanical studies also allow us to monitor the process of rehabilitation and be able to make objective precisely the effect of the same ”. Alfaro qualifies that the study of the tread is not an exclusive test of elite athletes, “ anyone, not just with diseases, can be benefited from this type of study ”.

for this specialist, prevention minimizes injuries up your query and explains that it is to prevent “ fundamental good coordination between the different specialists that surround the sportsman and awareness active part it both in terms of physical conditioning, warming, correction of technical defects, surface to use or footwear ”, argues.

Early evaluation of the form of stepping of a child (age 4-5) can help prevent many diseases in adulthood, performing corrective and preventive treatments. You have a good tread will ensure a better development psychomotor of the child and promote the sport of it. Many of the children regarded as “clumsy” and do not like the sport, in fact have a way of stepping on deficit which is what makes that you have less sporting skills and therefore abandon such practices. At the same time, the lack of physical activity promotes weight gain and that further hinder the way to walk correctly. Another very important part in children is the right choice of footwear, the foot of a child is a piece in continuous evolution and it is very important that the footwear promotes the development of the foot in a way optimal.