pronation

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The most likely cause is abnormal foot pronation which is collapsing of the arch of your foot.

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  1. The act or result of pronating; the prone position of the fore limb, in which the bones of the forearm are more or less crossed, and the palm of the hand is turned downward: the opposite of supination. Pronation and its reverse movement, supination, are free and perfect in man and in some other mammals which use their fore paws as hands. In pronation the bones of the forearm are crossed; in supination they lie parallel to each other. The fore limbs of most quadrupeds are permanently fixed in the state of pronation, with the palmar surface or sole of the fore foot downward or backward, and the knuckles or convexities of the joints of the digits upward or forward; supination is absent, and the ulna is often reduced to a mere appendage of the radius, ankylosed at the upper end of the latter.

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  • For example, people with a tendency to pronate more should choose an anti-pronation shoe.
  • Coach Bagonzi: I agree that pronation is probably beneficial to throwing, and that it may protect the elbow and shoulder on many pitches.
  • Fastballs and their cousins surely are pronating pitches, and any high-quality fastball should absolutely undergo pronation (early pronation as a sinker or late pronation as a four-seam, high-velocity fastball).
  • They need stability shoes to give some control of over-pronation. —  CTV News RSS Feed
  • Over-pronation causes improper balance and foot alignment resulting in recurrent friction. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. = French pronation = Spanish pronacion = Portuguese pronação = Italian pronazione, from Late Latin pronare, past participle pronatus, bend forward, bow: see pronate.
 

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