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Why Do Collapsed Feet Make My Knees and Back Hurt?

Your feet are where your body first meets the ground. When that first point tilts, the knees and pelvis above it tilt too in order to keep balance, and walking in that tilted state is repeated thousands of times a day. When people come in with knee pain and we say we'd like to look at their feet first, they're puzzled. But the knee is a joint caught between what's above and below it. If force is pushing up from below, the knee has no choice but to absorb it