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What are Movement Compensations?

20/12/2011 by Cerin

Movement compensation on crutches

Since I started to learn Karate when I was 7 years old, I have consciously or subconsciously been trying to improve the way I move. I have learned that if I want to put my body in a certain position, there are loads of different ways I can do it. But I have also learned that some ways are better than others.

Are you crippling yourself every time you walk?

01/12/2010 by Cerin

Out turned footprints in the snow.

I was walking into work yesterday morning, looking at the footprints in the snow, left by someone who had been along before. This person showed a common problem that can lead to bad things if they are not carefull. You could see that as they walked, their feet were pointing outwards nearly diagonally! In other words, they were walking like Charlie Chaplin. They had “duck feet”.