Question

During the health risk appraisal, a client indicates that her full-time job requires her to wear dress shoes and that she prefers to wear shoes with a heel. From this information, what insight does the Health and Fitness Professional have about what muscles might be overactive

Answer 1

Answer: The Health and Fitness Professional have insights that the GASTROCNEMIUS and SOLEUS muscles might be overactive.

Explanation: GASTROCNEMIUS is the muscle at the back of the calf, whose insertion is the Achilles tendon at the heel while the SOLEUS is the broad, flat muscle that extends behind the gastrocnemius along the back of the calf.

Wearing shoes with a heel will cause the gastrocnemius and the soleus to be overactive.

Answer 2

The use of different shoes causes different areas of the skeletal muscles to be activated, if the shoes have a heel or have a greater length in the heel sector, the calf contracts and remains hypertonic.

Step-by-step explanation:

In addition, it must be considered that the dress shoe has a low impact base, therefore it tends to affect the worker's posture, low back pain and even possible affections in the arch area of the foot.

If we use more heels in the heel sector, the muscular balance is compensated, activating the muscles of the lower limb, mainly the calf and the anterior part of the quadriceps.