Feet are complicated. Immobilizing feet by squeezing them into tight fitting shoes and standing on them all day can causes the muscles to shorten and cramp. When the arches drop the joints, fascia, tendons and ligaments to get over stretched, thicken with scar tissue, stiffen, become brittle and painful. By the time someone experiences plantar fasciitis they have a drop in one or more of the arches, stiffening of some of the joints of the feet and a 50% thickening of the plantar fascia ligament, figure 2.
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Take care of your feet
June 4, 2021 by manager • Newsletters
Feet are complicated. Immobilizing feet by squeezing them into tight fitting shoes and standing on them all day can causes the muscles to shorten and cramp. When the arches drop the joints, fascia, tendons and ligaments to get over stretched, thicken with scar tissue, stiffen, become brittle and painful. By the time someone experiences plantar fasciitis they have a drop in one or more of the arches, stiffening of some of the joints of the feet and a 50% thickening of the plantar fascia ligament, figure 2.
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