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Flat or lowered foot is the deformation mation both in children and adults. It is
most commonly occurring in smaller obvious that certain professions where
children. According to the researches, it people are less likely to move or sit for
is found that at the age of 3 up to 7, 55% longer or spend longer time with a cer-
of children suffer from flat feet. In adults tain amount of inadequate footwear,
this percentage is smaller and it is about can potentially cause this deformation.
30%. Of course, the emergence of this With women, flat feet deformities often
deformation is caused by or, at least, its appear during pregnancy.

development is linked to the present way
of life. The use of means of transport re-
sults in lower use of foot muscles, both in
developing children and in adults. Also,
nowadays we very rarely walk on some
rough terrain or barefoot, i.e. without
footwear, which is of high importance
because muscularity does not remain at
a certain weaker level, but on the con-
trary, such an activity strengthens the
muscles of the feet.

In the normal foot we distinguish two HOW MARTIAL
Usually, the longitudinal arch is first ARTS HELP FLAT FEET
arches: longitudinal and transverse.

released, though it is not excluded that
both can be released at the same time. The easiest flat foot form or the first
Even though every child is born with stage in the development of this defor-
flat feet (pes planus congenitus), it is mation occurs by weakening and low-
well known that this kind of flat feet as ering the foot muscles, primarily those

a deformation is corrected as soon as holding the longitudinal arch. This stage
children start to rely on their feet and is the most common and it is called pes
then begin to use their own musculature, valgus. The second stage in the develop-
which then gradually leads to the for- ment of flat foot deformation is called
mation of the sole of the foot. pes plano - valgus, in which foot mus-
culature gets atonic to a somewhat
Unfortunately, the modern way of life larger extent, and where changes oc-
that makes us move less and sit more, cur in the ligaments, and the Achilles
as well as the use of various inadequate tendon is slightly more distorted. Both
footwear, and the increasingly frequent of these degrees of deformation can be
overweight of many people, also contrib- most commonly found in younger school

ute to the emergence of flat foot defor- children, but are also common in young

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