Can knee problems cause foot problems, and are plantar fasciitis and knee pain related in any
way? Let's explore this in this video. If you don't know me yet, my name is Chi and
you're welcome to The Body Conditioner. Here we work in, not out. If you're new to the channel,
hi, you're absolutely welcome. Please say hi in the comment section because I really
want to get to know you. Tell me about your knee and foot problems so that I can help you
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this way others like you will find my channel and I can help them too. So I made this discovery,
really, that those of my clients who suffer from knee pain also have problems with their feet
and I wanted to figure out what's going on because that is my nature, I'm quite inquisitive and I
want to understand the root cause of things. So I looked at my clients a bit differently,
really figuring out what leads to the knee pain and how that relates to foot pain or plantar
fasciitis or other forms of foot imbalances. So one of my clients has severe knee problems
and he also has a tailor bunion, let's look at this. So these are his feet, and this tailor
bunion is at the outer side, so there's something special about him, he has bow legs and because of
his bow legs, his medial meniscus has worn out more. If you want to know more about menisci
and bow legs then you can watch this video here in the cards. And because of the shape of his
legs he walks in a certain way and that also means that when he walks with his feet, which we all do,
he puts more pressure onto his outer edges of the feet. So his tailor bunion being just
a mirror of what is going on in his body. So let's look at the feet of a different client of mine,
he has knock knees and his feet look like this. And can you see that there is more callus
at the inner edges of his feet, so can you see that because he has knock knees he walks in a
certain way, his lateral meniscus gets worn out more. You can find the video about knock knees and
menisci here in the cards. And because of that, he also lands on his feet in a different way,
and because of that, it results in foot problems because our feet carry our whole bodies. So if you
know a bit more about the anatomy of your feet, you have a third of all your bones from your
feet to the ankles, so 30 percent of all the bones that you have. So there's a lot of mobility there
and because of so much mobility there are so many moving parts to it, that means if the body is not
properly aligned our feet suffer. So we are built to walk in a certain way, we land on our heels,
then there is a so-called supination, where most of the weight is at the outer edge of your foot
and then it moves across the ball of the foot to the inner mound of the big toe, then there's a
pronation and it moves along the big toe and then the next step starts. So the design, the setup
of our feet, the makeup of our feet is very, very complex and if our legs are not aligned properly,
if we do not move according to the setup, obviously it doesn't work this way. So most of us
actually do not walk this way, we have actually forgotten how to walk this way.
We land with our feet flat, we collapse our arches especially if you have knock knees,
or we have an over-supination often if you have bow legs, or you have a pronation at the ankle
and then you try to lift your arches more, so it's quite complex what we do to recreate and
balance in the body and as we do that certain body parts overcompensate. So to answer your question,
are they related? Yes, they are related, because the makeup of our feet and the way we walk just
represents what is going on further up the line, what is going on in the body. If your feet are
properly aligned, you walk differently. If your hip muscles, your leg muscles are properly aligned
and balanced then you walk differently, so there is a correlation between the two and it's super
important. So that means it starts at the feet, it starts at the knees, it starts at the hips.
It starts by understanding that your body is one, it is not just your feet that suffer, it's
not just your knees that suffer but your whole body suffers because if you don't walk properly,
the next thing is you get back pain, hip pain or neck pain. So understand that your body is
one. If you have certain pains in the body look at the whole body, even if nobody else does,
you look at your whole body and understand that you are one. If you work on one part,
you will surely help the other parts of the body feel better and healthier. If you want
to get your personalized leg assessment then come on over to thebodyconditioner.com or send me an
email at thebodyconditioner@gmail.com and we'll figure it out together.