Dorsiflexion is the backward-bending motion of your hand or foot, or even of your toes. (Go on – give it a go.) For our purposes, though, we’re chiefly concerned with ankle dorsiflexion.

Proper dorsiflexion allows for an optimal foot strike and can contribute to fewer injuries by putting your foot in the best position to absorb the shock of landing. It also contributes to reduced ...

The ability to flex your foot upward (dorsiflexion) is very important. But so is eversion and inversion, the fancy way of saying the lateral movement of the joint toward and away from the body.

Heel pain and stiffness, eliminate foot pain and you will feel relaxed and comfortable in the morning. Alleviates heel pain – Overtime, this dorsiflexion sock helps relieve foot and heel pain ...

A higher proportion of the children with a lower range of motion at baseline improved their ankle dorsiflexion using ... AFO: Ankle-foot orthosis; CP: Cerebral palsy; CPUP: Cerebral palsy follow ...

Dorsiflexion – the foot moves towards the shin as if you are pulling your toes up. This movement only occurs at the ankle. The table summarises the body locations and types of movements ...

Each cadet underwent measurements of seven intrinsic variables: hip range of motion, leg length discrepancy, lean calf girth, maximum ankle dorsiflexion range, foot type, rear foot alignment, and ...

Outcomes Our primary outcome was functional disability, the secondary outcomes were pain and ankle dorsiflexion range ... in only the physical domain for the Oxford ankle foot questionnaire (p=0.04).