But the foot has a second arch that runs across the width of the midfoot, known as the transverse arch. Venkadesan and his colleagues investigated the transverse arch, which had not been studied ...

The longitudinal arch of the feet was thought to be the reason the feet do not deform under such load. However, researchers have illustrated that the transverse arch may be more important for this ...

But there’s another, less obvious arch. Bones in the middle of the foot, called metatarsals, are arranged in a curve across the foot’s width. This bend, called the transverse tarsal arch ...

Photograph by Brian Finke, Getty Images via Nat Geo Image Collection Called the transverse tarsal arch (that’s the horizontal curve across the top of your foot), this previously underappreciated ...

Human feet are stiffer and more arched than other primates The transverse arch may be responsible for more than 40 per cent of your foot's stiffness This work could be applied in the design of ...

However, Venkadesan and colleagues present the idea that another arch component, the transverse arch (the part of the arch that curves across the foot at the base of the metatarsal bones ...

Turns out that what makes the human foot so unique is the transverse tarsal arch. The transverse tarsal ... arches don’t appear until about 2 million years ago, but we have evidence that ...

This is supplemented with transverse arch support, a contour that runs along the middle of the footbed to help promote better alignment and a deep and cradling heel cup keeps the heel’s natural ...