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Summary: Segmental facilitation as treatment for the postural valgus foot. Nedelands Tijdschrift Integrale Geneeskunde, year 5, no.32, May 1989, page 443-447, Peter W.B.Oomens.
Arch supports are very often prescribed upon just the visual diagnosis 'pes planovalgus' at patients with valguslike heels. When these patients come back later with (low) back pain, headache, restless legs, etc., we find them not only to have no flat feet, but neurophysiologically the opposite: pes cavus. The often progressive valgus then turns out to be a very probable causal consequence of bearing these arch or medial supports. The over 10 years experience in podo-orthesiology with exteroceptive(proprioceptive) facilitation and inhibition techniques, partly based on the theory of Dr.R.J.Bourdiol, has shown this clearly. It becomes however more and more difficult to buy shoes without some kind of medial arch support. The segmental facilitation principle has been developped as a method including correction for valgus feet only when needed, i.e. in case of temporary overweight, standing profession, pregnancy, etc. and can be prescribed therapeutically.
Summary: Continuous activity of the intrinsic foot muscles while standing. Nederlands Tijdschrift Integrale Geneeskunde, year 11, no.2, 1995, page 108-112, Peter W.B.Oomens.
Scientists of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (Netherlands) emphasize to diagnose sacro-iliac disorders not only descriptive anatomically, but in relation to the columna vertebralis, the so called kinematic chain (Snijders, Stoeckart, Vleeming).
Standing on both legs you create a so called 'closed chain' with the feet as punctum fixum. From the feet then, toward cranial, all simultaneously activated agonists and antagonists (foot-lower leg muscles) 'keep' the legs in an upright posisition, and so the whole body.
The intrinsic foot muscles are while loaded, the only structure to keep the small, horizontally situated, footbones together, by a so called 'force closure'. Supported of course by the footligaments.
Summary: Podoposturale Therapie (originally podo-orthesiologie), Brochure, J.G.Wijnand, 1991, Bourdiol - Oomens.doc.
Podopostural Therapy is a posture regulating therapy based on a facilitating technique. Special areas of the foot sole's skin can be triggered by very thin (1 à 2 mm) elements (e.g. made of cork). This will result in a change of posture (balance). This therapy is specially indicated for statique related pains as e.g. lower back pain, knee- and lower extremity pain. Neurophysiologically Bourdiol explains this from proprioceptive effects, where Oomens suggests the foot sole exterocepsis to be the main pathway.
Summary: eye function, in relation to the human posture, Nederlands Tijdschrift Integrale Geneeskunde, year 20, no. 2, 1994, page 66 -71, Peter W.B.Oomens.
In this article a relation between vision and human posture is described.It is explained that the way of sitting and standing influences the function of the eye muscles. Furthermore, a relation is described between the rotation around the (length) body axis and the dominance of one of the eyes. A correction of the human posture according to the podo-orthesiological point of view, instantaneously results in a reproducable, detectable, and measurable positional improvement. Interestingly, after such a positional improvement, convergence of the eyes becomes easier, both subjectively as well as objectively.