I’d have to say, that the nearly every person that comes to me saying they have “flat feet”, actually have an arch. In many cases they would be considered cavus. If you dorsiflex the 1st MPJ and there’s an arch, does this mean the person has a “foot that flattens” and not a “flat foot”
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“Flat Foot” or “foot that flattens”
