Pes planus (pess PLAY-nus), commonly called flat foot, is a foot shape in which the arch is lowered or lost so that the sole rests closer to the ground when standing. It happens when the tendons and ligaments that hold the arch together are loose or stretched. Although the high-arched pes cavus is the foot shape most associated with CMT, flat foot can also appear in the disease.
When Medicine Lost Its Compass
Evidence failed not because it was wrong, but because it was weaponized. I lived the downstream effects of that failure for more than a decade. This is what happens when medicine forgets that data always ends in a human being.
