Podo'week: feet for Dummies.

This month-çi our "fairy of the feet" proposes you to learn more about the feet: history, composition, different formes… Become a incollables!

The anat' in short.

A foot is 26 os, 13 muscles devoted only to the foot and 9 tendons from the leg. Can divide in 3 segments:

The hindfoot, adapted to the absorption of shock: Compact bones and strong muscles.

The medio-foot which cushioned the impact and the soil in accordance with the foot: many small polyarticulés bones and tonic muscles.

Forefoot for propulsion: os long and articulated in series and inserted to take advantage of interesting lever arm tendons.

And Yes! All things to work to make you take on a few cm² of your height. Charges vary between 5 and 50 Newton / cm² nothing that between standing at rest and walking!

The many joints and bones in game allow adaptation to various parameters that can be encountered and a thorough energy conservation at the walk.

Form of foot or feet in form?

It may be a foot according to the relative length of the toes. Today the 3 types are enough fairly represented:

Egyptian, the toes are decreasing size, the first being the longest

Square, the first 2 or 3 toes have the same length

Greek, the second toe is longer

The name "flat foot" or "hollow foot" calls it according to the behavior of the foot vault in support and therefore not only on the basis of the imprint or the subjective aspect of the foot. Finished the complexes according to the name of your foot, you know now what to take you!

The professionals of the foot

The foot is abandoned, for little that we know where to adresser…

The orthopedist is (among other foot) surgeon masseur-kiné is responsible for the re-education and maintains it musculaireLe pedicure-chiropodist performs care and carries out soles and appareillagesL' beautician will take care of to do you a beauty of the feet and reflexologue onglesLe was formed to stimulate the body through your foot (cf article) podo-orthotist makes shoes for foot douilletsLe fashion designer custom load we offer still more beautiful shoes in magasinLe Shoemaker bichonnera shoes and may even meet your comfort

You know them all? Have shared some tips with you?

Expressive feet

The feet are not remains in terms of expressions in the language française… know them you all?

Take his be foot on the foot of war have nickel-plated feet put the feet in the dish go feet devantColosse feet of clay at the foot of the letter

And so much more! What are your favorite, most unlikely, the most farfelues… in other languages may also be?

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