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If you're suffering from chronic lower back pain, take a look at your feet. Your flat feet, also called feet with fallen arches, may be contributing to or even causing the back pain. Here is the connection between your feet and your back pain and how your pain can be treated.
Keeping Your Lower Body Aligned
The arch in your foot serves two purposes.
This shock-absorbing prevents the force of your steps from being transmitted up your legs and into your back. When the arch is fallen, your legs and back feel more of that jarring force. The fallen arches also put your joints out of alignment, causing stress in your legs and back. The muscles in your back react to this by becoming inflamed and painful.
Why the Arch in Your Foot Fails
You may have a family history of flat feet, meaning that the muscles and tendons in your feet are not strong enough to maintain the arches. Outside of surgery, little can be done in this case of fallen arches. You do have control over some of the other causes, such as
Treating Fallen Arches
A visit to a podiatry practice such as Laurel Podiatry Associates, LLC will determine the cause and extent of the failed arches. Your doctor will initially recommend one or more non-invasive approaches to treating the problem. When these stop giving you relief from the back pain, surgery may be used to help. Some of the non-invasive treatments include
Your doctor will also recommend some actions for you to take if the cause of the fallen arches is preventable. These include
When these and the non-invasive techniques fail to give your foot enough support, some of the surgical options include
During your recovery from surgery, you'll use one or more of the non-invasive treatments to relieve stress from your foot while it is healing.
Once you've regained an arch in your feet, your legs and hips will take on their natural alignment and remove the stress from your back. Fix those fallen arches, and you'll be free of the annoying chronic back pain.
Share26 July 2016
