A Study Of The Weak Foot With Reference To Its Causes Its Diagnosis And Its Cure PDF Download

Excerpt from A Study of the Weak Foot, With Reference to Its Causes, Its Diagnosis, and Its Cure: With an Analysis of a Thousand Cases of So-Called Flat-Foot When the foot ceases to act or to be used as a lever, it loses the support and control of the muscles which have balanced the weight in its proper relation to it, and the attitude of passive support must he assumed, in which the burden falls on the inner side and the strain upon the ligaments. Whether this attitude is voluntarily assumed or whether it is forced upon the foot, the disuse of func tion and the mechanical disadvantages to which the foot is subjected predispose to weakness and deformity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.