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Foot mobility: do you have planks on the ends of your legs?

28th August 2013

We could all do with better foot mobility. A few minutes a day of stretching and moving your feet will do them the world of good. Our feet are our foundations and if they aren’t healthy – pliant, mobile responders to the ground below us and to the movement coming down from the body above […]

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Shoe Rant

28th August 2013

We all think of the ancient Chinese practice of foot-binding as cruel and barbaric. Yet we think nothing of squeezing our feet into pointy-toed, high-heeled, painful shoes – ladies, I’m talking to you here (and holding up my hand as a bit of a hypocrite) – on a regular basis, purely for the aesthetic value. […]

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How to stand with good posture

26th August 2013

We have lost the ability, as a culture, to stand well. Esther Gokhale, in her interesting book ‘8 Steps to a Pain-free Back’ posits that this is due to a loss of kinaesthetic cultural tradition and to the influence of the fashion industry at the turn of the 20th century. Whatever the reason, most of […]

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Rotational feet, Or: I thought pronation was bad!

23rd August 2013

We all think of the movement at our feet happening in a straight line, along the line of the bend of the ankle. But in healthy walking there is a rotational movement at the foot as well, with the midfoot rolling down and into pronation and then up and out into supination. Pronation has got […]

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Bunion Busting!

19th August 2013

When an area of the body has restricted movement the flow of blood (supplier of nutrition in the form of oxygen), lymph (remover of waste) and electricity (nervous impulse) is restricted, leading to unhealthy tissue with poor cellular regeneration. Many peoples’ toes have dramatically restricted movement, thanks to a lifetime of wearing shoes. Our toes […]

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