Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical
Biomechanics
at the California School of Podiatric Medicine
President, American Academy of Podiatric
Sports Medicine
When Dr. Douglas Richie agreed to speak for PRESENT Courseware on Adult
Acquired Flatfoot, we came to realize that the best of the best were
participating in online residency education. We now know how Dick Cavett felt when he landed the John Lennon interview.
PRESENT Courseware has dedicated three lectures to this topic. Dr.
Sam Mendocino's PTTD: Overview and Soft Tissue Repair, Dr. Jack Schuberth's
Tibialis Posterior Dysfunction - The Columnar Approach and Dr. Richie's
lecture.
Dr. Richie provides an in-depth review of the pathomechanics of the Adult
Acquired Flatfoot, also known as Posterior Tibial Tendon Dysfunction.
Subsections of this lecture include demographics, functional anatomy,
the role of ligamentous ruptures as well as a review of biomechanics of the
ankle-hindfoot complex. This lecture is designed to serve as a primer for
understanding why certain surgical procedures will succeed or fail in
correcting the Adult Acquired Flatfoot deformity.
Doug is not
only a great speaker, but his name is affixed to the state of the art AFO used
to managed this deformity.
