The Foot - Part Two

soft tissues of the foot

bones are not only important to the structures in the feet, there are the muscles, ligaments and tendons to be tested. The tapes, hard collagen bands or belts, close the bony structures and stabilize the foot, so that all normal movements, within its narrow limits. Capsular tension ring structures between the foot joints, the structural stability to the foot joints and the lining of the capsule to secrete the Food and lubricating fluid from the joints require. Multi-territory foot arc length to be covered by the plantar ligament, ligamentous the largest in the foot.

The plantar ligament holds the arch in the city to a certain extent, and saves energy when we walk to use in the next step, so that we in the spring in our step. A strain of the plantar ligament may be sharp and painful in the band and the knock on effect on their supporting role. On the back of the heel, the Achilles tendon, a large and strong tendinous band, the continuation of the fibrous tissue in the calf muscles, the gastrocnemius and soleus. The calf muscles in the power-walking and running and allow us to focus on tiptoe.

Controlled fall, is an interesting description of the complex technique of walking we are all so easy to manage. Walking consists of a repeated cycle of standardized anatomical movements. If our emphasis is on the front and rear of our feet. When the heel strikes the surface at the back and outer edge, and then the pressure after the front moves to the ball of the foot and big toe. Some of the stress is through stretching of the plantar ligament. Under the weight of the arc somewhat flat and the foot rolls inwards, so that the foot to go in the position called pronation.

Supination is the next position of the foot moves in the direction of the midfoot to the ground and starts, with weight, the foot externally rotated until the Walker begins to adapt to the toes, so they walk away from the surface. Gang problems in this postural movements can be exaggerated. Overpronation occurs when the foot is in far too exaggerated, and accuses forces in the big toe, which usually suffers from sixty percent of the load in motion. If the person with more weight on the outer side edge of the foot forward as they walk the walk is said to underpronated.

Gait problems with

The body is a unit, so that changes in one area can knock on effects in another. An antalgic corridor, a corridor pattern employed with the aim of avoiding pain, is an example of a joint motion abnormality. A neighbor, I see regularly walks around his farm very stiff and with only his legs to move. He moves without the top and bottom and side to side movements typical in motion to limit stresses in his back. With foot problems a person abnormal motion can stimulate these problems in other body parts as they try to reduce the stresses through the challenging area.

Baby feet are sweet and plump and very mobile, since they are clearly distinct from the cartilage-bone initially, and it lasts for nearly twenty years for the feet to fully and bone growth completed. The foot arch is not clear in the very young because of the thick padding of fat, which fills in this field. As the child learns to walk down the fat pads are reduced and demonstrates the bow. Typically young children are often knock kneed, to a certain extent up to the age of six years with the process changes slowly with time until they knock on the normal knee by about seven degrees.

It is not until we are twenty years, until our feet are fully developed and completely ossified. Looking at the feet of the infant, it is clear they are thick and curvaceous, with much of the skeleton is made in this age of cartilage. We can not walk through the arch fat deposits occupied this area and have to wait until the foot starts before the fat is reduced in size, and we can observe the typical foot arch. Small children often have knock knee, but rather gradually from the time they are 6 years old. The level of knock knees is reduced gradually toward the adult level by seven degrees.

Autor: Jonathan Blood-Smyth

Jonathan Blood Smyth is the Superintendent of Physiotherapy at an NHS hospital in the South-West of the UK. He writes articles about back pain, neck pain, and injury management. If you are looking for physiotherapists in Nottingham visit his website.

Added: April 19, 2009
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