Our feet evolved over the last ~ 5 million years to not only perform the task of the rear feet of animals that walk on four legs but to also take on the tasks of the front feet, freeing these feet to become our hands
Category - Stance and Gait Mechanics
Focus on understanding and improving movement through anatomy, physiology, and technology like the Sprike App. It covers posture, reflex integration, ergonomic shoe design, and the effects of gravity, aiming to optimize human movement for health and efficiency.
I recently discovered what could be thought of as the next-generation massage ball for feet - the Yamuna Foot Waker.
The biomechanics of vision and their influence on eyesight are more easily grasped if we first understand how the structure supporting the eyes relates to the fundamental structure of our posture and gait: It makes sense that exercises that...
The fundamental distinction between animals and all living beings is movement. Animals emerged out of living beings becoming able to make distinctions in their surroundings, give meaning to those distinctions, and move towards or away from what...
For Manual Therapists conceptualizing bone is something of a challenge. Classical anatomy presents bone as a static, mineralized structure that treats loads as compressional, somewhat like a stack of bricks. The dynamic and self-healing...
We human beings like to think that we control our bodies, that as we command our bodies to do something, it is our sense of ourselves that acts. When we think, “Pick up that cup and drink from it”, it is our conscious sense of self...
Four-legged animals have it easy. As they walk along, their ribs hang off of their spine like clothes on a clothesline, the weight of their torso helping to stretch out the joints and ligaments of their spines. Even our ape-like ancestors, who...
When our automatic reflexes are working well, we rarely even notice. These extremely fast reactions happen much quicker than would be possible if we had to think through the best option for that circumstance, making reflexes incredibly useful...
BackgroundMoving around has always been at the top of every evolutionary “got to have” checklist. From Jellyfish to fish of all stripes, to land animals to us, improvements in locomotion confer a survival advantage. It is...
If I could design a shoe with a 3" heel that looked great and made women look great that didn't trash their feet and wreck their postural dynamics - I would be rich. Here are some design considerations: