How To Treat Eversion?(4)

How To Treat Eversion?(3)

How To Treat Eversion?(2)

How To Treat Eversion?

How To Treat Drop Foot?(3)

How To Treat Drop Foot?(2)

How To Treat Drop Foot?

Overpronation Of Foot And Its Diagnosis

What is overpronation 

In gait analysis, overpronation is a wrong gait as foot arch rolling inward too much as eversion of foot (flat feet). Pronation is the feet motion as foot arch rolling inward or outward.

Impacts by over pronation

Specific injuries could be occurred with overpronation, because excessive foot motion changes the body’s natural alignment. Also it could cause increased force toward to the inner foot arch when foot strikes the ground.

Flat feet

The most common impact of overpronation is flat feet, also known as the eversion of foot. It is the collapse of foot arch that could cause foot pain in the heel or arch area.

Plantar Fasciitis

Plantar fasciitis is an inflammation of the plantar fascia along the bottom of foot from heel to the toes. It is the common foot pain caused by overpronation. This is because overpronation could lengthen, and delivery more stress to the plantar fascia.

Out-toeing & knee valgus

The eversion of foot by overpronation could cause out-toeing, as foot points outward when walking. The alternated body alignment by foot eversion could also be as knee valgue (X-legs), which causes pain in knee, hip and ankle.

Diagnosis overpronation by Sennogait

Sennogait gait analysis system illustrates if one has overpronation by looking at the eversion of foot, abduction and landing position of foot.

First, kinematric curves shows foot motion in Sagittal planes curve, Frontal plane curve and horizontal plane curves. grey curve in the background represents a reference range of that particular measurement.

Second, frontal plane shows if one has inversion or eversion of foot. Horizontal plane shows if one has adduction or abduction. A person with ovepornation would have eversion of foot and abduction of foot.

Furthermore, stance analysis shows the integrated landing position of foot of a person in red line, while the green line is the standard landing position.  Landing position line is located closer to the inner side of the foot if overpronation is taking place.

Lastly, Sennogait gait analysis system also directly evaluates the level of eversion of foot through sensing the pressure from the inner arch when walking.

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Knock Knees|Causes, Symptoms And Treatment

What is knock knees?

Knock knees is a condition when one stands up with his knees together, but feet and ankles can not be. It is also known as genu valgum.

How to tell if you have knock knees?

Actually, knock knees can be identified by yourself. Stand up straight, bring your legs together and look down. If your knees can touch together and there is a large distance between your feet, then you may have knock knees.

What causes knock knees?

Knock knees can develop as a result of risk factors, such as:

• Obesity
• Injury or illness affecting the leg or knee
• Arthritis, particularly in the knee
• A lack of vitamin D and calcium
• Flat foot

The symptoms of knock knees

Knock knees probably causes knee pain, a limp, lack of balance when standing or even difficulty walking.

Knock knees can also place your knees under extra pressure, which may increase your risk of developing arthritis.

Treatment

For treatment of knock knees, it depends on its cause and severity.

If knock knee is caused by an underlying disease such as arthritis, then you need to take care of the disease first. Or you can’t fix knock knees at its source and correct the leg alignment.

If not, you can try to do some regular exercises to fix knock knees.

• Foam Rolling Adductor Muscle

Lie down on your side, put a foam roller on the inside of your top thigh and bend the bottom thigh at the hip and at the waist. Roll back and forth. Roll for 30 seconds.

• Side-Lying Leg Raises

Lie on your side and abduct the leg away from your body and then back down. Repeat this motion doing 30 repetitions on each leg. Make sure to keep the toes pointed down to work all abductor muscles.

• Side Planks with Leg Raise

Lie on your side and support yourself on your elbow and side of your foot. Lift your hips in the air, keep a straight line from ankles to shoulders, and brace your core. Keep your body stable, raise your top leg without bending your knee. Make sure do not let your hips drop. Return to starting position. Do 15 to 20 repetitions on each side.

• Banded Squats

Put your band just below your knees. Stand with either your hands on your hips or clasped in front of you, with your feet slightly wider than your hips. Lower your booty as low as you can and then push back up into a standing position to complete one rep. Do 12 to 15 repetitions.

Continuous Assessment During Personal Training

Why do you need continuous assessment during personal training?

 

From the view of practical training situations, there are many factors that affect the implementation of training plan. For example, you’re going to train the chest, but you accidentally strained your shoulders yesterday. So it is obviously not suitable to continue the chest training plan. Other factors like old joint injury, depression, jet lag will also affect your plan as well. If these conditions cannot be timely assessed, then the efficiency of training will be probably low. Therefore, continuous assessment is a vanguard of efficient training. It is also a sign of professional service because no one wants to get injured or waste time in training.

 

In short, continuous assessment can be divided into periodic assessment and real-time assessment.

 

For periodic assessment, we’re all familiar with it. And this article will more focus on real-time assessment.

 

What is real-time assessment?

 

Real-time assessment means continuously evaluating a trainee’s status during training and then adjusting the content and amount of training at any time. If he is not in a position to fit into training plan, it is of great importance to adjust the training plan immediately rather than reluctantly complete it.

 

Real-time assessment can be divided into three parts: pre-training, in-training and post-training assessment.

 

Pre-training Assessment

 

1. To know a trainee’s sleep quality of last night;
2. The body weight, static heart rate in the morning; 
3. What and when does he eat breakfast?
4. Feedback of his state and mood; 
5. Body state after the last training.

 

All the information can be basically evaluated through simple communication. 

 

In-training Assessment

 

1. Pay attention to a trainee’s body flexibility, stability and athletic performance in the process of warm-up;
2. How well he can perform during formal training. And his body state (heart rate, sweat, blood oxygen saturation and his self feedback);
3. Body language, facial expression, percentage of heart rate recovery when in a break;
4. His emotional state, language expression and change of his posture after the increase of intensity of training.

 

Post-training assessment

 

1. Self-evaluation and feeling feedback of a trainee on the day;
2. Analyzing his training data and performance;
3. Tests basic physical data;
4. Collect physical feeling feedback and basic data on the next day.

 

Accurate assessment is the symbol of professional training and good service. Real-time assessment should be throughout the entire training cycle. In this way, coach is able to provide the most suitable training plan for a trainee.