Active toe-extension & flexion
PRE-/REHAB: Feet, ankles, knees & hips
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10m
THE WHAT & HOW:
These simple tools contribute toward an effort of regaining the most basic functions of the feet. Whilst valuable in rehabilitative contexts where the feet/toes have been injured or for prehabilitation where appropriate, more generally it is simply "regaining" what has been lost through culturally-selected footwear which both weakens & deforms the feet in the long-run.
Beyond physiological development, these contexts also develop their SENSITIVTY (e.g. to pressure against the ground & the shifting of one's weight over them) and consequential RESPONSIVENESS of the feet, significantly informing & affecting all bipedal activity.
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