Are Feet at Fault for Back, Hip, and Knee Woes?

If you are having problems with back pain, shin splints, knees, or hips, look to your feet. Although these ailments might seem totally unrelated to one another, they can sometimes be linked to problems that start with your feet and how they're built, foot experts say. When you walk, you put the force of as much as five times your body weight on each foot.

If the foot doesn't absorb that shock or redistribute it properly, you can develop problems elsewhere. Often this occurs in people who have hyperpronated feet, also called "flat feet," because the arch appears to be flattened and closer to the ground. If you have flat feet, your feet tend to roll inward when you walk or run.

That extra motion creates secondary stresses farther up in your legs, podiatrists say. Because of the excessive foot motion, the muscles on the inside of your leg must work harder to pull your foot up. When you use these muscles excessively, particularly in running, shin splints can occur.

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