Winterthur, September 2021 – At Estudio de la Pisada in Valencia, it's all about feet: the podiatrists at this clinic analyze patients' symptoms, develop treatments and advise athletes on performance diagnostics with the help of state-of-the-art technologies – including a piezoelectric force plate from Kistler to record moments and ground reaction forces.
We're on our feet throughout our lifetimes – but we rarely pay any particular attention to them. At Estudio de la Pisada in Valencia (Spain), however, everything revolves around feet: for over 30 years, this clinic has focused intensively on podiatry and orthopedic foot care. The team is headed by two specialists: José Manuel Bru Lázaro, an expert in motion analysis and clinical biomechanics, and José Manuel Bru Juanes, a podiatrist and foot surgeon. They treat patients suffering from a wide variety of disorders such as metatarsalgia (midfoot pain), fallen arches, splayfoot and plantar fasciitis (inflammation of the sole). With the help of force plates from Kistler, the clinic also analyses pathologies that originate from parts of the body other than the feet, including Achilles tendinitis, medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS) and other overuse reactions such as dysfunctions of the tensor fasciae latae muscle (TFL), which often occur in athletes.
The two experts make use of numerous advanced technologies as well as various diagnostic and data acquisition systems to track down the causes of these disorders and develop effective ways to treat them – mostly involving physiotherapy combined with inserts, or by performing surgery in more serious cases. Complete individual inserts and orthotic devices are also produced at Estudio de la Pisada with the help of cutting-edge laser technologies.