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If you don't understand the Windlass Mechanism.. you don't understand the foot!
The Windlass Mechanism – an explanation for function and injury of the plantar fascia? The wWindlass Mechanism is arguably the most important mechanical model of foot function. Let's take a little revision before we dive into the next book chapter!
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J. Hicks was the first to describe the rising of the medical longitudinal arch, with tightening of the plantar fascia without direct muscular action in a phenomenon he coined the windlass mechanism (Hicks 1954.. paper attached at the bottom of this post).
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