Take care of your feet
Feet are complicated. Immobilizing feet by squeezing them into tight fitting shoes and standing on them all day can causes the muscles to shorten and cramp. When the arches drop the joints, fascia, tendons and ligaments to get over stretched, thicken with scar tissue, stiffen, become brittle and painful. By the time someone experiences plantar fasciitis they have a drop in one or more of the arches, stiffening of some of the joints of the feet and a 50% thickening of the plantar fascia ligament, figure 2.
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Three Steps to Strong Healthy Feet
June 5, 2021 by manager • Newsletters
As we age we lose strength in our feet and lower limbs first. This predisposes us to a higher incidence of foot, knee and hip pain, and falls, which lead to an increased incidence of hip and lumbar spine fractures. They are all things that we would like to do without, especially as we age. How we treat our feet as children and teenagers significantly determines the health and vitality of our feet as adults. The prescriptions we followed from health care practitioners further contributed to the problem.
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