Our Theory is......

The human being's foot was originally designed to function barefoot,on soft surfaces such as sand, soil or grass. When the foot functions on a soft surface, the surface gives and absorbs the forces produced by the foot when walking. In this case, we leave footprints. Secondly, when walking on soft surfaces, which tend to be irregular such as on a beach, as you know your muscles have to work hard. Thus, in ancient times when we were constantly barefoot, our muscles would have remained strong enough to hold the foot in the correct manner.

We have now evolved to live in a world with flat, hard, unforgiving surfaces such as concrete footpaths, or concrete floors possibly overlaid with carpet or tiles,wooden
floors or bitumen roads.

On these unforgiving flat floors, our feet have no other option but to absorb the ground reaction forces & collapse in an attempt to contact as much surface area as possible to allow us to walk.

When our feet function in this manner certain muscles are over worked and others don't work at all. This results in a feeling of immobility and general tiredness. Aches and pains may be felt in the lower back, hips, knees, calf muscles, shins ankles, and feet.
Orthotic Therapy

Orthotic Therapy is the use of an appliance or apparatus to support, align, prevent or correct a deformity or to modify the position or motion and improve the function of the feet and thus the rest of the moveable parts of the body. 

It aims to bring the ground up to the foot, preventing the foot from having to collapse to meet the ground. (the green is the Orthotic)

 

 

 

Therefore at Aligned Feet Podiatry we are very passionate about ensuring your feet are correctly Aligned and thus functioning to the best of their ability. From experience we have found that this has a positive affect on you entire bodily posture and mobility and can help relieve all those niggling aches and pains, providing there are no other contributing, underlying conditions.

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