The Actions of Putting on Shoes

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Characteristically describing the movements of putting on your shoes.

    Every morning before I leave my house I put on my shoes. When I slide my foot into my shoe, I plantar flex at my ankle joint. Here my knees are extended as well as my hips. Next, I usually flex at my hip joint while keeping my knees extended to help my feet into my shoes. I then push the heel of my foot down into the sole and my foot is back in anatomical position. When I tie my shoelaces, my ankle joint then dorsiflexes while my knees flex, my hips flex, my elbows extend to reach my laces, and my fingers flex and extend while actually tying my laces. The motions of flexion and extension at the ankle, knee, hip, elbow, and fingers occur in a sagittal plane about a frontal axis. The osteokinamatics for the ankle joint are plantar flexion to dorsiflexion in a closed kinematic chain. In terms of arthrokinematics with the talonavicular joint of the foot, the navicular bone is concave, and the talus is convex, so they glide and roll in the same direction while moving. The prime movers for ankle plantar flexion are the soleus and the gastrocnemius muscles (lateral and medial), which perform concentric contractions.


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