I served as the foot and ankle consultant for the Cincinnati Reds for over 25 years, making the annual trip to spring training each year....

Finally, the human calf is rightly becoming the prime suspect as THE cause of the majority of non-traumatic acquired foot and ankle pathology. In my paper, “Gastrocnemius: A New Paradigm for the Human Foot and Ankle,” I explain why our calves get too tight, describing four categories that lead to the gastrocnemius contracture: activity changes, physiologic changes in muscles and tendons, genetics, and reverse evolution. A special thanks to Dr. Patrick DeHeer for his recogniti

I would like to wholeheartedly thank my Thai colleagues for their recent enlightening publication in Foot and Ankle International,...

There are 25 of us foot and ankle orthopaedic surgeons who meet every year where we rapidly exchange thoughts and ideas, argue some,...

“Why do I need to stretch my calves?” I’ve been answering this question from my patients for nearly 30 years, if you can believe it. I’ve...

I agree Malcolm Gladwell…calf stretching is embarrassing. Here is the $64,000 question: Why would we not stretch when we know it will work? I have had countless desperate patients who have “failed everything” leave my office convinced that the calf is the problem and that calf stretching will finally be the solution, only to return 3 months later, admitting they never stretched. Why? Did they forget? Did they not have a step or One Stretch? Are they just lazy? After all, they