Cuboid Syndrome Email Correspondence

 Here is a very encouraging email I received on July 2, 2009. Minor changes made to hide the identity of the sender.    Good Morning,       Xxxxx was not a big fan of the cuboid pad that I taped on her orthotic.  After watching your video though, she has been manipulating her food by tensing it and spreading her toes, and has actually been able to move the cuboid "back in"  on occasions when it is "out."  The interesting thing is that she has done more running and playing in the past two weeks than she has for a long time.  But her condition seems to be improving.  We have tried not taping it for two practice sessions now and she reports no pain.     About 8 months ago we went to Dr. Xxxxx in Santa Xxxxxx for one visit. I don't think he'd ever heard of cuboid syndrome. He said he thought that her foot was weak.  He gave her some excercises to do.  With the series of manipulations and x-rays that he did, he showed me by comparing x-rays, how the cuboid dropped about 1/8 (2 mm).  He said that her foot was sound and that the x-rays showed no structural problems.  Following this visit, she had no problems or pain on the field until about three weeks later when she tweaked it when someone stepped on her foot. She continued with the excercises and the pain came and went.     I asked her about the right (uninvolved foot).  She never has pain there and she can't manipulate it the way she does the left.  She says she can't move the cuboid up and down (on either foot) with the manipulation she does on the left, though again, she reports being able to "work it back in now when it is out."     We are considering a trip to Vegas.  Let me talk to my wife and see what our schedule is for the second half of July.   Jim   COMMENT: Because her problem is recurrent, she probably has the Type II Cuboid Syndrome which I have named and described. Her positive results give me reason to be very optinmistic that this is a resolvable problem.   I have 2 more case studies to post, soon....