Talk:Toe walking

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I used to walk like that a lot, I was just pretending I was a dinosaur or some other cool digitigrade crittermabob. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk) 23:04, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article is called toe walking because thats the term most people and doctors use to refer to the condition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tivon (talk • contribs) 05:33, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Technically the entire foot, heel aside, is phalanges, so... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 01:41, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"On the toes" is the common term. If one needs to be precise, the terms plantigrade, digitigrade, or unguligrade should be used. MultiPoly (talk) 20:26, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Faulty logic[edit]

The article states, "Able bodied children were tasked to perform gaits at different levels of toe walking and the study discovered that their toe walking could not reduce the force to the levels that cerebral palsy patients indicated in their walk. This suggests that cerebral palsy in which an equinus gait is present may be due to abnormally weakened plantarflexion that can only manage toe walking.[8]" Which does not follow. The first sentence says toe-walking did not reduce force, so the second sentence saying this is used as compensation for weakened plantar flexor muscles does not follow. MultiPoly (talk) 20:22, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Adults[edit]

I would consider this article not complete since it doesn't even touch the topic of adults with this condition. This does happen with adults with a movement disorder and perhaps there are other reasons, I am not a doctor and I am only commenting due to personal experience. Also the category should be expanded to include neurological diseases and movement disorders Sylgrant (talk) 22:27, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can a Wikipedia article give 'advice' as this one does regarding PT/OT? I think not. I intend to remove that statement after attempting to find its source. 98.250.104.88 (talk) 03:13, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Missing section[edit]

OK... where is the part where it’s explained why this is supposed to be pathological? Toe-striking while walking or running reduces the jarring impact on the heel and thus through to the knee. The faster we go and the less of a heel we have on our shoes, the more we naturally toe-strike. Putting the weight on your heels is appropriate for lazily standing around, or slowly plodding, or whenever we have a lot of cushioning at the heel.

My flatmate drives me crazy, going clop-clop-clop around these wooden floors, heavily heel-striking. Indoors, I’ll be wearing socks or light shoes, and I won’t need to walk so far that I get fatigued, so I naturally walk by lightly putting the toes and ball of the foot down first, and barely putting any weight on the heel as I step through. It’s quiet and graceful. It’s nothing to do with short, tight tendons. I’m in fact hypermobile. When I’m out and about, I usually have Doc Martens on, and I thus heel-strike because the boots restrict my ankle movement and protect me from the harsh impact anyway. Correctrix (talk) 10:25, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]