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Plantar Fasciitis and the Relationship to Strengthening Your Hips

Where does Hip Strengthening fit into all of this?

In relation to the foot, our foot/arch supinates (high arch) and pronates (flat/low arch). This can lead to an

increase of stress that is put through soft tissue and the plantar fascia on the bottom of our foot. (4) In the

human body our hip abductors (muscles that move our leg out to the side) and our hip external rotators

(muscles that rotate our hip out) help to control pronation of the lower extremity down all the way to the

foot.

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