CONTENTS OCTOBER 2010 ISSUE 46

Publisher TOR DAVIES BSc (Hons) tor@sportex.net Editor LYNN BOOTH MCSP lynn@sportex.net Art editor DEBBIE ASHER debbie@sportex.net Advertising manager TOR DAVIES tor@sportex.net +44 (0)845 652 1906 Subscriptions SANDRA GREATOREX subs@sportex.net +44 (0) 845 652 1906

TECHNICAL ADVISORS Richard Bolton Steve Aspinall

Sophie Cox Dr Bryan English MCSP, MAPA

BSc (BASRaT), MSc

BSc (podiatry), SRCh, MChS

Dip Sports Med, DO

Joanne Elphinston BPhty MA, MCSP Dr Dylan Morrisey MCSP, MSc PhD Prof Graham Smith FCSP, SRP Joan Watt

MCSP, SRP

Dr Nick Webborn MRCGP, Dip Sports Med, MSC

Dr Greg Whyte PhD, BSc (Hons Welcome

By the time you read this October issue of sportEX medicine we will have launched (much to everyone’s relief I suspect!) our brand new

webshop. This is long overdue but with a small core team, it has quite an impact on workload!

In conjunction with our new webshop, we have also launched a new way to access our online content. As you know, we’ve been experimenting with embedding interactivity into the sportEX journals in the form of videos and animations and soon we’ll be incorporating CPD quizzes also. In my mind there’s not yet a publishing platform available, which can accommodate where I want to take the sportEX, so this is a good solution until I find one!

This platform allows us to incorporate the interactivity and the practical ‘bringing to life’ aspects of our articles, which we hope bring added value to you as a subscriber. It also represents a much more attractive and usable solution with much better search functionality across our whole archive. You can also print any pages you wish. This new online content can be found under the Online Access section of our new site (www.sportex.net) where there is also a video explaining how to use the new service.

I very much hope you enjoy these developments. Tor Davies, publisher tor@sportex.net

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6Achilles tendinopathy 11The ankle joint

A look at some of the latest research

The second part of this article focuses on the management of this complex disorder

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