Flat foot vs normal2/22/2024 ![]() ![]() Life-long flatfooter here too no significant arch at all, completely perfect foot picture on the Dr. So an arched foot works less to do more, while keeping your body properly aligned! This, in turn, supports healthy muscle tissue, and reduces inflammation and stress on individual muscles. The benefit of the arch, then, is that it helps the foot to spread the workload across a wider area. It can cause various alignment issues all the way from the feet, up to the shoulders, in severe cases! This can be very uncomfortable. This forces the hips out of alignment, and can even throw the back muscles off to some extent. When the feet are overpronation (tilted 'inwards') or supination (tilted 'outwards'), it forces the leg muscles and bones off kilter. The legs, hips, and back, all work together to keep you upright. This causes the foot to rest, or work, at a certain angle. It's notable, as well, that arched feet typically have a 'resting' position where the feet are not strictly pointing forward, but not pointing 'too out' either. As a result, flat feet tend to get sore faster, have a varying limit to their range of 'motion', and are prone to pain under high workload, such as marathon running (or sprinting from zombies). When the arch collapses, there's less work-sharing going on, it means each piece has to work harder, and it can't 'flex' as well with other pieces. ![]() It means that any individual spot on the foot can share the load of walking on other parts. That anchor point then redistributes the force across the entire bone structure of the foot. So when you walk, and you roll your foot, the muscles have an anchor point that they can pull on. The bones in the middle connect all the muscles to an anchor point. The arch of your foot is basically like that. This allows the bridge to sustain itself, and significant weight, without fear of collapse in any one part. It's all anchored to a particularly strong 'tower' and then redistributed across the weight of the whole bridge. So when you put a lot of weight on the bridge, it's not just the actual bridge, road, and columns underneath that support that weight. If you look at large bridges that support a lot of weight, you see those giant cables that 'curve' up and to a point in the middle. Feet are supposed to have an arch, and the bones/muscle in them require it for proper function. ![]()
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