When the way you walk and stand is less than perfect, every step you take places stress on every joint, muscle and nerve in the body. That may be just a little difficult to believe, but it is fully explained by the science of human biomechanics. In fact most every “over use syndrome” that results in chronic pain located in the foot, knee and spine is caused by excessive pronation (arch break down) and internal rotation (knocked knees) of the legs. 

As both legs are rotated inward with improper gait, the pelvis is tilted forward. In the same way that a level foundation is important to the structural integrity of the house it supports, so is the tilt of the pelvis related to the curvatures of the spinal column. As the pelvic platform tilts forward both lumbar and thoracic curvatures increase. This forward tilt results in what is commonly referred to as “sway back” and “hump back” in the general population.

When a history of injury is present and weakness to the joints of the body occurs, the constant stress as you walk and stand results in chronic irritation, inflammation, and eventually pain with every step you take. Long before this chain reaction that starts at the foot and ends in the neck were expressed in scientific terms, everyone knew that the foot bone is connected to the leg bone, and the leg bone is connected to the hip bone, and the hip bone is connected to the back bones. 

Hundreds of internet sites describe how postural breakdown is the cause of pain throughout the entire body. Many understand that problem begins with foot function, while others try to strengthen the muscles and manually realign the position of the joints with exercise and physical therapy. 

Treatment with hundreds of different foot control devices, for more than two hundred years, has addressed the real cause of the problem that begins with foot function. Unfortunately the amount of correction provided by these orthotic devices has been insufficient to completely arrest abnormal pronation and postural breakdown. How much correction necessary to stop more than just a small portion of the resulting breakdown has never been measured or defined. Until all of this unwanted pronation is stopped, any effort to stabilize posture is countered by every step you take. Exercise, spinal adjustments, yoga, calcium, or any type of physical therapy can only hope to slow the inevitable breakdown that occurs. 

New research conducted over the last 20 years now quantifies this relationship between foot function and posture. Our unique research has defined the amount of correction necessary to stop all of the pain and deformity associated with postural breakdown caused by the way we walk and stand. 

Read more about these medical conditions caused or aggravated by the way you walk and stand. Be sure to trust just enough to experience for yourself the benefits of this important discovery.