Foot type

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The foot type is understood to mean various properties of the human foot . Both the shape of the foot and its footprint are included in the description.

Foot type as a description of the footprint

The condition of the arch of the foot determines the footprint. The determining geometrical part of the foot is the arch of the foot or its actual arch.

Normal foot
When the normal foot occurs, the forefoot, middle and rear of the foot can be seen in the footprint.
Running dynamics: With a normal foot you first touch the ground with the outer edge of the rear foot when running. The foot then bends inward (natural pronation ).
Arched feet / flat feet
The flat foot or arched foot is slightly curved inward in the metatarsal area. The arch of the foot mostly touches the ground with every step, you can see the whole foot as a footprint. (Overpronation).
Running dynamics: The overpronator first touches the ground with the outside of his heel.
Arches foot
The arched foot has a high arch. When running, the outer edge of the foot only partially touches the ground. The forefoot and heel can be seen in the footprint.
Running dynamics: A person with a hollow foot comes first with the outside of the heel on the ground. The foot hardly or not at all buckles inwards (underpronation, supination ).

Physiological foot types (foot typing according to toe shape)

Foot type as a description of the foot geometry. Here, the shape of the foot is generally viewed from the geometry of the toe lengths and toe geometry. (see toe (foot) )

Greek foot type
Index toe as longest toe (40% in Central Europe)
Egyptian foot type
Dominant big toe, sloping toes (50% in Central Europe)
Roman / Romanesque foot type
Straight toes (10% in Central Europe)

Foot shape, foot typing according to the foot shape

Foot type as a description of the foot geometry. Here, the shape of the foot is generally considered from the geometry of the foot skeleton. This species thus describes the phenotype of the foot.

Germanic foot type
Sickle-shaped and narrower in the heel than in the forefoot
Anglo-Saxon foot type
Straight, narrow and elongated, dominant big toe
Baltic foot type
Special form of the Anglo-Saxon foot
Romanesque foot type
Broad foot

literature

  • Gerhard Fleischner: Podological orthopedics. Verlag Neuer Merkur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-929360-89-6 , p. 70f Fußformen

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