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Show CAR DRIVING HARD ON FEET Use of Accelerator Causes "Short Circuit" of Pedal Nerves or "Motor Foot," It Is Said. When car owners return from their summer vacations many of them return re-turn limping. A new summer epidemic epi-demic is at large in the ranks of vacationists. vaca-tionists. The new ailment has been given the popular name of "motor foot." In the language of surgical chiropody it is indexed in-dexed and classified under the name of "metatarsal displacement." Continuous motoring is the cause of the ailment. It is a right foot trouble caused by the continuous strain occasioned by long motor trips when the driver keeps his foot in the strained position required by the use of the car accelerator. This position causes a displacement of the metatarsal bones which in turn causes them, in motor language, to "short" the nerves of that part of the foot. This in turn is the answer for the pain that accompanies the distinction dis-tinction of possessing "motor foot." "Motor foot" not only makes walking walk-ing painful, but practically eliminates golf, tennis or any of the other popular forms of active recreation. |