crowphoenix
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I was born with my feet facing backward. The docs had to break my ankles and reset them. Yeah, my feet point out some, but it doesn't hurt me at all.
So can you and bengraven do splits?Cereal KiIIer said:
Yeah, maybe once in a blue moon, typically when I'm tired and exhausted, I have to check myself.Garcia said:I've been doing that for plenty of time already and it's true, your body learns to re-adjust itself to walking in a straight fashion, however there are some times when I have to check on my foot whenever I start to feel I'm walking the way I used to.
crowphoenix said:I was born with my feet facing backward. The docs had to break my ankles and reset them. Yeah, my feet point out some, but it doesn't hurt me at all.
kevo_huevo said:I think the medical condition you're all referring to is called genu valgum, or more commonly known as knock knees.
parrotbeak said:Seems like exercise and stretching would at least partially correct some of these conditions.
Yep, this is exactly what I think of whenever I see someone walk like this. All they need is to bend there knees more and smoke a cigar and they would be a villian straight out of a silent movie.Shed_a_Ninja said:
your pre-edit post was way better imo.Jhriad said:Pointed straight is probably the "normal" way to walk. It's honestly surprising how many people actually do care about whether your toes point straight or not. I think I'd put in in the 'sharp knees' category myself.
Well shit, 90% of the things people ask in OT could go in that thread.equap said:http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=227688
there's already a thread for stupid shit like this.
gutterboy44 said:This drives me crazy. Every day on my commute I notice tons of people all shapes and sizes walking with their toes pointing out. It seems so strange and uncomfortable to me. Glad I am not the only one out there who notices this. Walk straight damn it!
The irony!Kozak said:Duck feet here. The biggest effect I can identify is that I can't reach faster speeds in swimming.
Maleficence said:First of all, the primary issue here is likely to be external (lateral) rotation at the hip, as your knee does not rotate much at all when the knee is straight. There's a number of reasons you could have this problem.
The most obvious would be a combination of muscle tightness and muscle weakness in the antagonist muscle group. A good strengthening and stretching regimen could help assist the biomechanics back to normal. Strengthen the internal rotaters and stretch out the external rotaters.
There could also be some physical changes to the bony structures of the involved joints (mainly looking at the hips and knees but at a stretch even ankles) that would lead to people adopting positions of ease causing issues like this, though over time this would lead to the above changes also so both would need to be corrected.
A slight amount of external rotation is actually completely normal. The shin should align with the 2nd toe in standing iirc.
/physio student
Edit - There seem to be a lot of people confusing this with an issue with flat footedness. Flat foot is an a foot issue and unless very severe is unlikely to have much of an effect on the rotation of the hip, therefore it's a seperate issue. If you have very flat feet, you will get over pronation of the foot, very high arches will lead to over supination (much less common). Over pronation can lead to some appearance of external rotation, but you can very much be over pronated and also have perfectly normal hip rotation and therefore your feet wont point outwards as much. Overpronation can lead to a valgus deformity at the knees, however this would lead to an internal rotation at the hip, not an external rotation.
I may have got some of this stuff wrong, I'm still studying
El Pescado said:I've got duck feet. >:[
I was born this way. There was nothing they could do besides attach a metal bar to my legs when I was a baby to try and pull them so they'd be straight, but my Mom thought it would be cruel.
It actually kinda hurts my knees if I try to walk with my feet pointed forward. :/
I can't turn both my feet backwards, but I can do one at a time no problem.