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Originally Posted by Lost Dog
I always have. But, since I've started to wear flatter soled shoes on deadlift day, I've noticed it more.
I always do it, but the flat soled shoes make it worse. It's almost as if the lack of a heal allows my duck feet more time to splay out into duck position before the duck heals strike.
I stand like a duck, too. When I relax and just look down, my feet are at a 90 degree angle from one another. Perpen-duck-ular, I'll call it.
So, what if anything, should I do about this?
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I bet you thought this thread was dead in the water?
Just browsing through the injuries looking for hip related stuff and I spotted your thread.
One of my nicknames in high school(30 years ago) was duckers because of the way I walked and stood. I could never "sit like an Indian" ( or should I have said Native American), cross my legs at the knees, pull my knees up to my chest or run particularily fast. I played football(line) and baseball(catcher) as a schoolboy but nothing organized after that. Most of my adult life I have been very active, lifting, tennis, golf , but I slowed way down once I hit my forties.
I had major hip problems as I got older due to , probably, a birth defect that was never really detected. My hips would grind and ache to the point where I could barely walk without pain.
Finally last summer I took the plunge and had them both replaced.
I'm happy to report the pain is gone and I'm almost back to my pre-arthritic days of activity.
Long story short- have you ever had any x-rays taken of your hips? I'm willing to bet they're not exactly lined up where they ought to be.
I'm not trying to scare you about some future problem your heading for, but you're walking like a duck for some physiological (right word?) reason.
I believe it would be, at the very least, interesting to find out what those rascals look like inside, and at the very most might point to an arthopedic problem.
My hip x-rays (pre-operations) looked like a frisbee and a hammer rather then a ball and socket.
Just my thoughts, "duckers".
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