Post~2 Foot Pain

The Big toe is a window & and Calves hold us up:

Pain in the foot is far too common. Mostly because foot pain is very treatable. I see heel pain and lateral foot pain daily. They arise from abnormal standing and walking. The basic issue is We have a hard time sensing Our heels. The majority of Us walk around placing far too much weight in the front of their Our foot. Great looking calves are good to have, but if they are built at the detriment of abs and bigger muscles like hamstrings then we need to pause.

Lets get a bit technical about Walking:

In walking we need to strike the floor with our heels and push off our big toes. Our big toe is the last contact we have before pushing off. The big toe is the gate keeper or as I said before the window to the other side of our body. But people become afraid of pronation or flattening a foot so they ride the outside of their foot and get LATERAL FOOT PAIN.

But…

So many big toes (Thumb of the foot) are stiff. This makes pushing off a toe really hard!

This is what made Hoka shoes so incredible for so many people. If you can’t use your window or gate to the other side of the body we need a way to be able to shift our weight and move forward.

Enter Hoka, or a shoe that rocks your foot from the heel to the toe without bending at the toe box.

The correct shoe is a whole other question, and I opened pandoras box by bringing it into this post, but lets return to

-Foot pain is supremely treatable-

Lets get a bit technical about Standing:

In standing we need to feel our HEELS (both of them), ARCHES and BIG TOES. These areas are our reference centers to our brain to use the right muscles all the way up the muscular chain ~ hamstrings, obliques, mid/low traps etc. (The important muscles!)

Calves hold us up because so many of us shift our weight forward, and then we push the front of our foot into the ground so we don’t fall. Pressing the front of our foot so hard into the ground to keep us from falling, but makes our calves work overdrive. Not falling is useful, but the way we don’t fall is all wrong.

We become calf reliant and strong calves lead to sore feet. PLANTAR FASCIITIS is largely a result of poor placement of our weight into the front of our foot!

So to boil it down to a tasty stock of pain free feet,

WALK with heel strike and push off your big toe, and STAND with a “sense” of heel arch and big toe.