What causes flat feet?

Thomas Goldman, DPM is a board-certified podiatrist at Mount Sinai Doctors, seeing patients Monday - Friday in Midtown. Trained in New York, he is certified by the American Board of Podiatric Medicine. He was awarded his medical degree from the New York College of Podiatric Medicine and completed his residency in Podiatry at Coney Island Hospital. He has a particular interest in podiatric minimally invasive foot surgery and sports medicine.

Mount Sinai Doctors, 55 East 34th Street, is a six-floor multispecialty practice with more than 12 specialties, including Cardiology, Dermatology, Diabetes Education, Family Medicine, Gastroenterology, Gynecology, Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology, Pain Management, Podiatry, Urology, and walk-in primary care appointments.

[ajarmuzzle]

i have flat feet and whenever i walk for a long time it tends to hurt

[ripsense]

I was born with flat feet I’m 17 I’ve played sports all my life and have never felt pain.

update: still nothing.

[champreilly]

I was born with flat feet and everyday my feet kill me

[caught_stealing]

I have flat feet and they hurt every single day

[sohannataraj]

I'm 25. I have flat feet. I have a mixed lifestyle. During normal walks and being idol, I never felt pain. But when I exercise a lot, especially running and jumping, I feel some pain in the arch area. The fact that worries me is my performance level. Because of flat feet, I am unable to reach my full potential.

[Goldenxbih]

I feel like my feet is gonna end of sliding off and just falling off :( it’s horrible, can’t run, walking hurts like shit, just standing hurts too

[izthatachikan]

I have flat feet and up until I was 13 and became more physically active, they never bothered me. Now the pain can be excruciating in the soles of my feet all the way to my back. Great video, now I understand and what’s up with my feet.

[smileyfossil]

I am flat footed from CMT and my feet don't hurt in fact i am fine standing on a lego

[minischnauzerlola]

When my feet hurt I just think how lucky I am to not have a spinal injury of something like that

[Juxce]

It blows we away you saying that being I'm 28 now but by 26 my hips and knees have been giving me a whole lot of trouble.

[j_rod]

I’m 46 and I have major pains from flat feet. Never affected me till I got older.

[Cindy-mxsx]

I just like don't being flat-footed as a ballerina :/

[ytmld]

I have flat feet and I am very bad at some physical activities, I regret treating this sooner.

[kestonluke]

Pretty sure I was born like this.. even my son has it

[teshomevaughn]

Man i thought i would never have to go through this have to have surgery on my foot 20 plates and screws

[marygrace]

I didnt know that i am flat footed until one of my friends saw my feet and asked me if i am flat footed. She checked my feet and said i am.
Now i know why most of the times my ankle, knees and back hurts and my job requires me to stand. Most of the time i almost like dragged my left leg going home because it hurts a lot.
Now i know why i am like this.

[GEORGIANATOR]

I'm in my late 20s and I feel like an old lady with all these pains from my flat feet

[sirgrinder]

I haven’t been able to run in almost 2 months because my flat feet decide to ache ;))

[miamianz]

most of my issues are back pain. sadly i cant even bend and im 47 the amount of tension on my back has always been huge.

[katthecat]

I’m a dancer with flat foot. I have sprained both of my arches and after months of healing they still hurt. No matter what shoes I wear they always hurt. I hate flat foot!