If you suffer from painful feet, plantar fasciitis, heel spurs, feet pronation or collapsing arches then you will be interested in the active foot posture correction exercises that we utilise at PhysioWorks.
 
Your foot posture in weight-bearing has an impact on all of your joints and muscles within and above your foot. Poor foot posture can lead to foot, ankle, shin, knee, hip and back pain.

While  you are probably aware of orthotics (an arch modification device placed within your shoe), the unfortunate trouble with orthotics is that they are only useful when you are wearing shoes. You don't see too many orthotics on the beach or in designer shoes!

Another significant disadvantage is the fact that orthotics are a passive support.  This means that something else is holding up your collapsed foot arch that isn't your muscles. While this may be helpful in the short-term, the long-term news is not so good. So what else can actually fix your fallen arches? 

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