“MOTORIST’S HEEL”
THE LATEST COMPLAINT
London, November 19.
The increasing frequency of “motor ists’ heel b( noted by Dr. A. P. Bertwistle in the British Medical Journal.
The patient, after driving for a long distance over rough or busy roads, lie says, necessitating frequent manipulation of the clutch and accelerator. next morning ’cannot put bis heel to the ground owing to the acute pain over the entire heel pad, and particular tenderness at the plaintair fascia attachment. A temporary abstinence from driving effects a cure.
Lorry drivers fit a board, covered with a soft material, beneath the controls ae a preventive.
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Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2377, 2 December 1929, Page 7
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