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Originally posted by Karl2bdc
. . . But the orthotics are putting your body back the way it is suppose to be, thus taking your knees out of bad alignment and putting them in good alignment, of course which the body has to adapt to (the body thinks that the way it is, is the correct way). Now the body has been like that for 30 years, can it change overnight, in a day, in a week, in a month? . .. .
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See now,
this is exactlly what I don't get. "orthotics are putting your body back the way it is suppose to be," (?)
The
way our feet are supposed to be, is out of toe-crushing shoes . .. constantly walking on variable surfaces. . . .actively using muscles, pulling tendons. Not held, chruched-up in some supposedly "Correct-arch" position.
I find it strange, that "thee solution" is to start shiming feet. My feet have plenty of strength and flexability. In fact, as soon as I was told
how I was walking wrong, I began to correct, using only techinque . . . foot & postural awareness.
OTOH, I suppose, there are times when shimming feet is the appropiate solution to peoples problems. It's just that I get the feeling that I've been a victim of Doctural-Appointment-inertia (ya know; where Doc's have to push patients thru, so the throw a bone, (pill, device) and say go get it.)
Oh well, they may not have the time to get it right, but at least it's expensive.