23/06/2024
🌟Understanding Flat Foot: Causes, Symptoms, and Solutions 🌟
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Flat foot, or pes planus, is a common condition where the arches of the feet flatten, causing the entire sole to come into complete or near-complete contact with the ground. This can lead to various symptoms and affect your overall posture and movement patterns.
🔹 Types
1. Rigid: Arch remains flat whether weight-bearing or not.
2. Flexible: Arch flattens only under weight-bearing.
⁉️How it happens??
The reasons leading to flexible flat foot abnormality vary, and the most important are:
▪️Laxity of foot ligaments
▪️Muscle imbalances in the supporting muscles of the foot arch, such as functional weakness of the posterior tibialis muscle or shortening of the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles.
▪️Tibial torsion and knee valgus
▪️Obesity and high BMI
▪️Wearing inappropriate shoes
🔺️ Symptoms
🔸️Foot pain
🔸️Fatigue
🔸️Lower back pain
🔸️Headaches
🔸️Balance issues
🔶️ Consequences
▪️Knee valgus
▪️Hip misalignment
▪️Uneven Pelvic and shoulder
▪️Scoliosis
▪️Pronation Syndrome
▪️Increased risk of injuries
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