Craig Payne

University lecturer, runner, researcher, skeptic, woo basher, clinician

Nov 24, 2019

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Natural Cures for Heel Spurs – the quack is strong in this one.⁠

The whole ‘natural cures’ industry is a scam. Just because something is natural does not make it better. Arsenic is natural. Ionizing radiation is natural. Neither of them are any good for you. Arguing that something is better because it is natural…

Sep 25, 2019

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Natural Cures for Heel Spurs – the quack is strong in this one.

The whole ‘natural cures’ industry is a scam. Just because something is natural does not make it better. Arsenic is natural. Ionizing radiation is natural. Neither of them are any good for you. Arguing that something is better because it is natural…

Sep 24, 2019

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Bunion corrector gullibility⁠

Some people must think some people are really stupid. I recently screen shot some pictures posted on a website that I stumbled across and has now been taken down. They must think that people really are that stupid. It was from a website promoting and…

May 31, 2019

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Natural History vs Clinical Evidence

This is a topic that I have blogged about so many times, but it came up for me with a patient I looked at a few weeks ago. The previous posts included topics like: But…but…it worked for me!, Anecdotes are not evidence, and Why Ineffective Treatments…

May 31, 2019

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Natural History vs Clinical Evidence⁠

I never cease to be amazed just how many people are more trusting of anonymous anecdotes from fellow sufferers of conditions than they are of evidence-based health professionals. From time to time I hang out in social media groups of people who have…

May 28, 2019

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Professional Sports Team Embraces Pseudoscience

Here in Australia most professional sports teams have in place a salary cap regulated by the sports governing body. This means that they can only spend a fixed amount on players. In other countries in other sports there is no such salary cap, so the…

Dec 24, 2018

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Cannabis Oil for Plantar Fasciitis⁠

There seems to be increasing advocacy for the use of cannabis oil (medical marijuana) for plantar fasciitis recently, mostly from what I can see, from those who sell it. If you hang out in some of the online communities for those with plantar…

Dec 4, 2018

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I don’t get this…⁠

…actually, I do get it; I was just being facetious. To explain: I obviously follow the research evidence and how that informs clinical practice and clinical decision making very carefully. If that research stacks up to scrutiny, then it has to…

Sep 25, 2018

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Platelet Rich Plasma for Plantar Fasciitis – writing about something I know nothing about…⁠

I have to be honest and admit that the use of platelet rich plasma (PRP) for plantar fasciitis is something that I have had no more than a superficial interest in. I pretty much scanned the abstracts of the studies and systematic reviews as they are…

Aug 3, 2018

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Google Scholar Ranking of Podiatry Journals

Today, Google scholar came out with their 2018 update to their ranking metrics. No point in me re-litigating what Google says about them, so read Google info. The rankings are not without some controversy and there are competing ranking metrics of…

Jun 5, 2018

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The week that was…

Been a busy week. As part of my Online Boot Camp course’s, I do a weekly update of the week that was. Thought I would share the one I did this morning with everyone. You get free access to a weekly update like this one every week if you are enrolled…

May 29, 2018

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Foot Orthotic Dosing⁠

The concept of foot orthotic dosing is something that has been bubbling away under the surface for a long time now, but for some reason, not a lot of noise gets made about it, or when noise is made about it, tends to get dismissed by those who want…

Feb 23, 2018

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But…but…it worked for me!⁠

What does apple cider debunking, overpronation and cigarette smoking, Oscon supplements for Severs disease and vaccines causing autism have to do with each other? ^^^ that is the final slide in a video from my Critical Thinking Boot Camp. Anyone who…

Feb 19, 2018

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Throwback Thursday: Reappraisal of Ryan et al (2010)⁠

Yes, I know it’s not Thursday, but in my defence, I have been meaning to get to finish writing this for a while and did start writing it on a Thursday. What I want to do is go back and take another look at this study by Ryan et al, published in 2010.…

Jan 13, 2018

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The Ethics of Doing a Gait Analysis

I often enjoy playing the provocateur and can frequently make statements to have that effect. They are not done to be mischevious but are typically done to encourage critical self-reflection, mostly in the context questioning one’s own clinical…

Dec 26, 2017

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How does stuff like this make it into professional journals?

Any publication with the title of A Novel Treatment Approach to Over-Pronation Dysfunction is going to get my attention, mostly because of the nonsensical understanding of “overpronation”. I was not disappointed and it was as bad as I expected. Even…

Dec 17, 2017

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Should you trust running shoe research done or funded by Nike?

Of course, you should! So many people have whined for years that the running shoe brands do not do research to back up the claims that they make for their shoes, yet when they do do it they whine that they don’t trust the research as it was done or…

Nov 18, 2017

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Children growing up barefoot more likely to be heel strikers when running

Just had one of those … shake my head… roll the eyes … moments, when this turned up in my alerts. We all been subjected to the propaganda and rhetoric on this. We already know from the actual evidence that 25% of barefoot runners heel strike (when…

Nov 12, 2017

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Foot Structure and Injury Differences Between Habitually Barefoot and Shod

I was doing a live Facebook thing with Ian Griffiths last week answering questions. One of those questions was about what happened to this blog as I had not posted anything since September. It simply boils down to time. I have what I think are some…

Sep 20, 2017

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No, No …. and … ummm, NO!

Only a short post today as my head hurts from the facepalm. I have a lot of stuff that turns up in my daily alerts. Some of it good, some of it bad and some of it really hurts my head: Distribution of plantar pressure during jogging barefoot or in…