Despite how much we depend on our feet every day, few of us give much thought to their complexity or importance. Nearly everything we do involves some form of walking or running and it’s our feet that are responsible for absorbing the resulting ground impact and keeping us upright. Ironically, the shoes we wear to protect our feet inhibit their natural function, and in turn, can promote muscle and joint problems throughout the body.

Our Amazing Feet

The foot contains more than 20 bones, 30 joints, 100 muscles, tendons, and ligaments, and 200,000 nerve endings. In fact, the feet contain a quarter of the bones in the human body, and as such, deserve more of our attention.

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