Podiatry and Biomechanics of March and Position
“Mechanics is the branch of physics that described the movements of the bodies and its evolution in time, under the action of forces”, that is, mechanics, studies and analyzes how objects move, what speed they do so at and what force they must do to move or to be moved.
Mechanics are applied in many areas such as aeronautics, automobiles, industrial and also in medicine known as biomechanics.
We can then say that biomechanics is the scientific discipline that studies the structures with a mechanical side of the human body and leans on other sciences such as anatomy, physiology and mechanics. The human body is a complex structure where we find muscles, bones, tendons, ligaments and other structures with their own individual biomechanical behaviours and at the same time connected among them to interact together being part of a system of device, for example, the locomotive, responsible for the movement of the human body.
So, understanding and analyzing the biomechanics of our body, walking, running, playing sports, or our position while we work, we will be able to determine the source of any anomalies that can vary the mechanical structures in our body, altering their proper operation and therefore risking injury. c de lesions.
March study
Our locomotive system, responsible for the movement of the body, is formed by the bone and the muscular system. The bone system is formed by the group of bones, cartilages and ligaments that form the skeleton. The muscular system is formed by all the muscles in the body that, when coming together with the bones, by its contractions, lead to movement. The nervous system is responsible for the coordination and stimulation of the muscles produced by the human movement.
All these structures and joints interact forming a net that keep the body in balance. This net formed by our body, is supported by our feet that’s why we must make them important and take care of them as they are our support. The feet are not an isolated part of our body. They’re interconnected with it through the bone structures and the muscular chains in which they take part.
Walking, or while marching o running, all the joints are involved in order to move. In the study of march we value and compare the movements of each person with a range of movements considered normal and that’s where, observing differences of what is normal, the bad movement can be corrected by modifying it in order to avoid future alterations o bone or muscle injuries that could lead to important pathologies if not modified in time.
Posture rating
From crawling as babies until we reach old age, our bodies are conditions by the mechanical and biological laws of bone growth. Seeing the big picture, the body structures that suffer most stress, load, tension or flexion, become deformed to adapt to the excessive stimuli, forming the shape of our skeleton during the different growth phases and consolidating at the adult age. Many many factors participate in the shaping as, how long we crawl, when we start walking, what kind of physical activity we’ve done, our job, whether we exercise or not... Staying too long or too little in any of these phases while the body grows, can lead to anatomical abnormalities or even deformities that will stay as an adult.
Being able to detect these ahead of time will allow to establish a plan to treat as prevention what could happen in the future: irreversible pathologies and injuries.
Improvement of the gesture
Studying the posture in different situations, whether in sports or at work or in regular life will let us observe which are the wrong moves and the postural habits that can alter the anatomical structures, provoking pain and/or injuries. Using biomechanics in podiatry will allow to see which is the best way for the human body to move in each situation, avoiding pressure points, overloads, stress... what we’re trying is to avoid injuries and allows to improve the gesture to achieve optimum performance en any movement of the human body whether professional or in sports.
