The journal Médecine et Chirurgie du Pied was founded in 1984 under the impetus of Dr Simon Braun, who was its editor-in-chief until 1997. It is the official organ of the French Society of Medicine and Surgery of the Foot. After 17 years it is entering upon a new existence with a change of publisher. The French Society of medicine and Surgery of the Foot was founded in 1969 by Professor Paul Galmiche. The multidisciplinary nature of this Society does not allow isolation within one own specialty, rather to share ideas in order to understand a pathology as complex as that of the foot. This journal is the organ of expression of all those interested in the food and its pathology, both in France and abroad.