Pediatric Pedorthics 101: For Kid's Feet, Development of Baby Feet - Paperback

by Inna Chon (Author)

With more than 150 illustrations this book explains how to guide toddlers' feet to grow in proper alignment from the moment they begin standing and taking their first steps. This book shows how our foot is structured and how it grows from newborns to young adults while carrying the rest of the body on it.
The human foot is constructed with the most complex joint system in the body: the Tarsal joint, not many people know about. Despite its singular name, the tarsal joint is a cluster of 21 tiny joints involving 12 foot bones arranging like a 3D puzzle. One of them is the anklebone, where the leg bone stands. This tarsal joint with 21 tiny joints forms the arch-the foundation of our body.
Most people are unaware of this tarsal joint begins to fall and tilt the anklebone when toddlers start to learn to stand, even before they walk. The moment this tarsal joint falls, it throws the entire body structure out of alignment start causing biomechanical problems throughout the body- in the feet and major joints. Just like when the foundation tilts, the entire structure goes out of alignment.
It explains how our body weight effects the walking cycle, and why the tarsal joint needs orthotics from toddlers to keep the joint from falling while maintaining anklebones at the same height, so children's body can grow in alignment. Without proper orthotics, the tarsal joint falls with every step tilting the anklebone. This deforms foot shape and misaligns the major joints body; as a result, our body cannot develop its full strength and cannot use its full range of motion as well.
To name a few of the problems of the fallen tarsal joint are the foot deformities and foot pain, and pain in the ankle, knee, hip, back, including scoliosis. All these contributes to poor postures and increase risk of injuries. To prevent and improve all these problems, all we need to do is finding proper orthotics that aligning both anklebones at the same height. This provides our children the balance and stability their feet need, only then their body can grow in alignment from the ground up while being able to stand and walk correctly.
The bottom line is the function of orthotics is aligning both anklebones at the same height.
How can we know if the orthotics are aligning both anklebones at the same height? The author developed how to do the Anklebone Alignment Test, which we can tell if the orthotics are aligning the anklebones at the same height or not.