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What is the "normal foot"?

Discussion in 'Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses' started by Craig Payne, Jun 20, 2005.

  1. cpmcc

    cpmcc Welcome New Poster

    Re: "What is normal foot"?

     
  2. wdd

    wdd Well-Known Member

    I think it might be more valuable if we forgot about the 'normal foot' al least for the moment and spent some time attempting to agree an appropriate definition of the word 'NORMAL'!

    I took a few definitions for 'normal' from the web and though it doesn't in any way resolve the problem it certainly highlights the source of the difficulty.

    In most areas the idea of normal seems to be involved with the idea of 'average' but then along comes medicine which seems to re-define 'normal' as something more like 'ideal' or 'perfect'.

    See below:

    adjective
    1.
    conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
    2.
    serving to establish a standard.
    3.
    Psychology.
    approximately average in any psychological trait, as intelligence, personality, or emotional adjustment.
    free from any mental disorder; sane.
    4.
    Biology, Medicine/Medical.
    free from any infection or other form of disease or malformation, or from experimental therapy or manipulation.
    of natural occurrence.


    So what do we mean by 'normal'?

    Surely we have gone through this and reached some sort of conclusion in other threads?

    No?

    Bill
     
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