Dr Cylie Williams: A Podiatrist's Perspective on paediatric feet and gait concerns

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Dr Cylie Williams is a podiatrist and a senior research fellow at Monash University’s school of physiotherapy. Besides being an active clinician, she has been involved in a wide range of interesting research from whole body vibration therapy to developing clinical decision-making tools in cerebral palsy. She is passionate about knowledge translation in allied health professionals and her special interest is idiopathic toe-walking. I thought it might be fun to pick her brains and dig a little deeper into feet and shoes from a different angle. Cylie delivers a practical approach to this complicated topic with some solid advice and a good dose of realism.

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Mindy

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• Podiatry Training 02:04

• Why treatments fail with ITW 10:55

• Treatment approaches in ITW 11:31

• Navigating Google Land 16:45

• Carbon fibre foot plates and AFOs

• Are you addressing equinus or gait? 19:20

• What are the long-term outcomes of ITW? 20:25

• Neurologically based toe-walking 25:20

• An effect strategy - working with parents 32:06

• Working collaboratively 34:09

• Questions

• SureStep vs Cascade 35:42

• Alignment, pain and function 39:20

• Outcome measures for orthotic use 40:38

• Subtalar joint neutral 42:15

• Umm - whats the difference between an orthotist and a podiatrist? 49:13

• Pronation and the developing foot 52.28

• Watchful waiting and missed windows of opportunity 57:36

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Resources

Web-links

Cylie Williams

Kingston Foot Clinic

Children's Podiatry on Facebook

• People Mentioned

• Dr Angela Evans

• Billi Cusick

• Winnie Dunn

• Other Mentions

• Weight-Bearing Lunge Test

• Foot and Ankle Outcomes Questionnaire

• Subtalar joint neutral

• SureStep

• Cascade

• The paediatric flat foot proforma

• The typically developing paediatric foot: how flat should it be? A systematic review

• Commentary: How flat is the paediatric flat foot?

Book Mentions:

• Angela Evans - Pocket Podiatry: Functional Anatomy

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Thanks for your support!

#CerebralPalsy #HEP #Orthotics #flatfeet #pronation #AFOs #ITW