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Are Your Feet Flat?

  • June 29, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

If your whole foot touches the floor when you stand, you have flat feet. Young children usually have them, because their foot bones, tendons, and ligaments haven’t yet formed the arches. It’s normal for some people to never develop arches, but flat feet can cause pain.

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