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                                                                     hen  I  go  to  a  golf  course,  I  instinctively  pay
              Representative Director                          Wattention to how people walk. Among them, out-
              of the Inter-American Division of                toeing is a sign of an abnormality in the spine, so it is
              Self-developed Oriental Medicine Hospital        unfortunate.  The  out-toeing  gait  refers  to  the  fact  that
              Oriental Medicine doctor
              / a doctor of Oriental medicine                  when a person walks, the angle of the foot is spread more
              Lee Woo-kyung                                    than 15 degrees on both sides, and its shape is similar to
              자생한방병원 대표원장                                      the shape of the Chinese character 'eight'. Usually, most
              이 우경                                             people do not know this, but when you look at the heel
                                                               of a shoe that has been used for a long time and only the
                                                               outer side is severely worn, you should suspect the out-
                                                               toeing gait. Also, when you go to the beach for the first
                             WHAT OUT-TOEIN                    time in a long time, you can check your steps by looking

                                                               back at your own footprints.
                           MEANS IN A GOLF                     The out-toeing gait reflects the imbalance of the legs, hip,
                                                               back muscles, and spine, or means that certain muscle
                                             COURSE            areas  are  underdeveloped,  so  it  should  be  corrected

                                                               before  problems  occur.  In  my  experience,  most  of  the
                                                               patients  who  come  with  a  herniated  disc  problem  are
                                         골프장에서의                walking at a pace. Conversely, I have seen many cases
                                                               where a person who walks in a straight line instead of a
                                         팔자걸음으로                naive walk gets better with just a few treatments, even if

                                  몸상태를 알수있다                    he comes to the hospital with a herniated disc problem.
                                                               There are many reasons for this, but first of all, because
                                                               of oriental culture, there are many cases of sitting with


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