Why do Japanese girls walk with their feet turned inward?

Many friends who like to watch Japanese dramas or anime should have discovered that Japanese people tend to walk with their feet turned inward to some extent, and Japanese anime is no exception. The turning-inward seems to be a symbol of cuteness, but in fact it is far more than that. The turning-inward of Japanese girls is actually inseparable from the national culture.

If you observe carefully, you will find that their walking movements are very similar, as if they were carved from the same mold, that is the standard pigeon-toed walking, which is obvious! We have seen many people who walk with their pigeons turned outward. Although this is not very elegant, it looks majestic. Many bosses walk like this, looking like they hold their heads high and walk with a swagger, and they walk very freely.

If you change your walking posture, for example, to the pigeon-toed walking posture of Japanese women, everyone will definitely feel miserable. However, Japanese women have always insisted on doing so. Their suffering can be imagined. In the eyes of the Japanese, women walking in that way, even though they walk slower and often bend over, can show a kind of humility and make people think that they have received a good family education. In fact, in the past, Japanese women did not have these particularities when walking.

Later, when they had kimonos, if they walked like before, the wide hem would touch each other, which was not elegant in their opinion. In order to show the dignity and beauty of women when walking, they had to walk with their legs splayed out. In fact, from the perspective of modern health science, this walking posture is very bad because it is a completely unnatural way of walking.

If they walk like this for a long time, the leg muscles will be tense, which can easily lead to strain and many problems in their bodies. Although it is rare for Japanese women to wear kimonos now, they still walk like this. Because they often sit on their knees, it is easy to form an inward-facing toe. They are now aware of the disadvantages of this walking posture, but it has become a habit and is difficult to change, which makes them very distressed.

The inward-turned walking style of Japanese women is called the "pigeon step" because their toes point inward when they walk, just like a dove pacing unsteadily. It looks very strange and makes people feel uncomfortable, as if they have to pee urgently. It is a bit funny to say, but this way of walking is the epitome of cuteness in Japanese culture and is very kawaii.

Because of the culture of Japan, they think turning one's toes inward is very cute, so you can easily find that most of the female characters in their animations also turn their toes inward, and real women see this and imitate each other, and later it evolved into a local culture in Japan.

In the eyes of local people, if a girl can't walk the inner eight roads, then she must be a "country bumpkin from Hokkaido". This phenomenon is getting worse and worse, so many Japanese women either actively or reluctantly follow the trend and have evolved into what they are now. So they also have their own difficulties. No wonder Japanese girls blame it on traditional culture.

But in addition to this statement, there is actually another statement that ancient Japanese women all wore kimonos. In their kneeling etiquette, the lower part of the kimono was not loose, which was to show their beautiful figure. Therefore, they could not walk so casually. Because they wore wooden clogs on their feet, in order not to swagger, they had to keep their knees inward, which would give people a sense of elegance. After this habit was developed for a long time, the ankles of Japanese women also began to be different, and they developed more inward.

No. Walking with your legs splayed out will cause more pressure to accumulate on the outside of the foot, increasing the chances of the outside of the foot contacting the ground, changing the original route of the foot contacting the ground, increasing the pressure on the joints, and in the long run will lead to deformation and pain of the leg bones, forming O-shaped legs.

At the same time, walking with your feet turned inward may indicate osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease caused by many factors such as aging, obesity, strain, trauma, congenital joint abnormalities, joint deformities, etc., which leads to degeneration of articular cartilage, reactive hyperplasia of joint margins and subchondral bone.

In addition, if you walk with your feet turned outward, it means that your toes are pointed outward at too large an angle. Over time, this will cause your knees to move outward, turning your legs into an X shape, and even causing knee pain and accelerating joint degeneration.

The correction of pigeon-toed legs depends on the cause. If it is caused by soft tissue contracture, mild conservative treatment is adopted, such as hot compress of hip joint, physical therapy, infrared irradiation or massage therapy, to relieve the contracture in the joint, and the lower limbs are fixed with an abduction traction frame, generally for about 6 weeks. If the conservative treatment effect is not ideal, different surgical methods need to be adopted for release, such as adductor muscle incision and release, contracture hip capsule incision, and deformities caused by abnormal bone development often require osteotomy and internal fixation treatment. Different surgical methods are selected according to the situation.