Great article on foot function in gait. I hear a lot about normal foot function or how variations from normal are the cause of X, Y & Z injury. First we have to define normal! I read a comment regarding a lack of proper pronation in most people recently. To say that we must first define proper Given the massive variations in foot kinematics that lack of adherence to proper may stem from the attempting to define proper, normal or optimal in the first place. With the foot, abnormal seems to be the norm! Finally, variation between people in foot kinematics is high and normal. This includes variation in how specific joints move and how combinations of joints move. The foot continues to demonstrate its flexibility in enabling us to get from A to B via a large number of different kinematic solutions. Rather than continue to apply a poorly founded model of foot type whose basis is to make all feet meet criteria for the mechanical ideal or normal foot, we should embrace variation between feet and identify it as an opportunity to develop patient-specific clinical models of foot function
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 10:18:34 +0000
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