Craig Payne

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

Aug. 1, 2020

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Why Podiatrists Should be Concerned About Concussion in Sport

Concussions have always had a particular interest for me. The politics around concussion in sport and the alleged cover-ups and the significant public health consequences have long been a fascinating issue to follow. Will Smith’s 2015 movie,…

May. 18, 2020

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Beetroot juice for chilblains? ….. say what?

Chilblains are generally not that responsive to treatment with most interventions having some effect, but no one intervention really curing them or having any great consistent affect. Lots of people have opinions and preferences for treatments, most…

May. 3, 2020

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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…

May. 3, 2020

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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…

May. 3, 2020

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Oh, the cognitive dissonance

Just put together a video for the Clinical Biomechanics Boot Camp on ‘Clinical Practice Can be Deceptive’ wrestling with an issue I can’t quite get my head around. Sometimes writing about it helps me think clearer, so here goes: Foot orthotics for…

May. 3, 2020

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Reflexology research …. ‘low hanging fruit’

When you are busy and have so much important stuff to write about, it is so much easier to go after the ‘low hanging fruit’. Much less effort is needed and when it so easy, you don’t need to think too hard about it. Research on reflexology never…

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

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. 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. 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…

Nov. 30, 2018

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‘Nocebic Foot Orthotics’ – I invented a new word!

During this morning live broadcast on Facebook of PodChatLive (and its on YouTube) we were discussing paediatric flatfoot and paediatric foot orthoses with Helen Banwell, a question from came in from Marc Barton that got me thinking. But first, some…

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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Beetroot juice for chilblains? ….. say what?

Chilblains are generally not that responsive to treatment with most interventions having some effect, but no one intervention really curing them or having any great consistent affect. Lots of people have opinions and preferences for treatments, most…

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…