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Supination is the opposite, and occurs when the foot impacts the ground and there is not enough of an "inward roll" in the foot's motion. The weight of the body is not transferred at all to the big toe, forcing the outside of the foot and the smaller toes which cannot handle the stress as well to take the majority of the overweight instead.
Cuboid syndrome may develop through either a single traumatic event such as an ankle sprain or insidiously with repetitive strain over time. [1] The exact etiology of cuboid syndrome remains unclear but many ideas have been proposed. Such ideas include excessive pronation of the foot, overuse injury, and inversion ankle sprains. [1]
Restless legs syndrome (RLS), (also known as Willis–Ekbom disease (WED), is a neurological disorder, usually chronic, that causes an overwhelming urge to move one's legs. [2] [10] There is often an unpleasant feeling in the legs that improves temporarily by moving them. [2] This feeling is often described as aching, tingling, or crawling in ...
RLS could be considered either a neurological disorder or a sleep disorder. There have been some genes that have been associated with the disorder, but generally the cause is unknown.
These include shoe-fitting problems, [2] lateral ankle instability, [3] lower limb stress fractures, [4] knee pain, [5] iliotibial band syndrome, [6] back pain [7] and tripping. [ 2 ] Foot pain in people with pes cavus may result from abnormal plantar pressure loading because, structurally, the cavoid foot is regarded as being rigid and non ...
Tarsal tunnel syndrome (TTS) is a nerve compression syndrome or nerve entrapment syndrome causing a painful foot condition in which the tibial nerve is entrapped as it travels through the tarsal tunnel. [1] [2] The tarsal tunnel is found along the inner leg behind the medial malleolus (bump on the inside of the ankle). The posterior tibial ...
BANGKOK — A Thai woman’s leg had to be partially amputated after it became trapped in a moving walkway at an international airport in Bangkok, officials said.
Dhanapat Koomsalud said he was stepping off a moving walkway when one of his shoes got stuck. “The shoe got sucked into the walkway right away,” he said in a Facebook post the following month.