The Great Toe Needs to Be Great It wants to be great. You just have to let it be. Your Big Toe needs to move. <----as we learned in Part one, which you can read by clicking the link The Greatness of the Great Toe Specifically the 1st metatarsophalangeal joint (MTP), where the big toe articulates with the foot, needs to be mobile and strong. If the Big Toe isn't functioning as it should your balance wont be very good because you can't make microadjustments to the natural sway of the body at the foot. Your walking gait will be off due to the inability to dorsiflex the hallux and take full advantage of the Windlass … [Read more...]
The Greatness of the Great Toe: Part 1
December 9, 2018 by
The Big Toe It's the Biggest Toe For a Reason Take your shoes off... I'll wait... Socks too. Ok, look at your foot. Which one is it more like? From: Foot Morphological Difference between Habitually Shod and Unshod Runners The "crumpled up" one on the left, or the "splayed out" one on the right? Look like the crumpled up one? That's what a lifetime in shoes does to you. Unfortunately, crumpled up feet that look like this have become "normal" in todays society. Just Cause It's "Normal", Doesn't Mean It's Right At least not from an evolutionary standpoint. We're meant to have wide, splayed out feet. "A logical prediction from an engineering view of an ideal foot is … [Read more...]
