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Twenty flat-footed individuals participated in this cross-sectional study. Lower limb kinematics were assessed by 3-dimensional motion analysis during walking and running on a treadmill with preferred and wide step widths while receiving visual feedback. Inter-joint coordination was quantified using vector-coding for joint angles in the hip, knee, and ankle. Wide walking showed a shift towards proximal joint motion in sagittal ankle-knee coordination during loading response during LR (p=0.006), an In-phase motion in transverse ankle-hip coordination during push-off (p=0.004), and an In-phase pattern in frontal knee-hip coordination during mid-stance (p=0.027). Frontal ankle and transverse knee coordination during push-off changed to In-phase (p=0.003). Wide running significantly shifted frontal ankle-hip coordination towards proximal joint motion during mid-stance (p=0.05). Transverse ankle-hip coordination showed an in-phase pattern in wide conditions during push-off (p=0.044), during LR (p=0.022). Wide walking, significantly increased coordination variability of the sagittal ankle-knee during LR and decreased transverse ankle-hip during push-off. Wide walking significantly increased coordination variability in ankle-knee in sagittal plane during LR (p&lt;0.001). Wide running significantly decreased the coordination variability in the ankle-knee sagittal during LR (p&lt;0.001) and knee-hip sagittal during LR (p=0.007) and push-off (p=0.016). The results showed that wide step width can affect\u00a0inter-joint\u00a0coordination during walking\/running in flat-footed individuals at certain points. 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