Feet Facts

The two feet may be different sizes, buy shoes for the larger one.

Walking barefoot can cause Plantar Warts, the virus enters through a cut.

Approximately 56,000 people a year lose their foot or leg to Diabetes.

Your feet mirror your general health. Conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, nerve and circulatory disorders can show their initial symptoms in the feet, so foot ailments can be your first sign of a more serious problem.
Walking is the best exercise for your feet, it also contributes to your general health by improving circulation, contributing to weight control, and promoting all round well being.

Women have about four times as many foot problems as men, high heels are partly to blame.

It is neglect, lack of awareness of proper care, including ill fitting shoes which bring on problems.

Only a small percentage of the population is born with foot problems.

1/4 of all the bones in the Human Body are down in your feet, when these bones are out of alignment, so is the rest of the body.

Over £30 million is spent annually on chiropody services for the over 60's and most of these foot problems can be attributed to badly fitting shoes and unsuitable footwear in childhood.

To carry your body through life, the human foot needs to be incredibly strong, yet delicately sensitive, firm yet supple.
Every time your foot hits the floor when walking it is the equivalent of twice your body weight. Running increases this upto three times your body weight.

Have your shoes fitted properly because

Your face looks as good as your feet feel
In other words, it’s difficult to put a smile on your face with your feet hurting.

A human foot has 26 bones, 19 muscles and roughly 30 joints, and 107 ligaments and thousands of nerve endings.

Nine out of ten people will suffer from foot problems.

Human foot posture is plantigrade, that is the whole foot touches the ground, Other postures are digitigrade - toes and fingers touch the ground, unguligrade, hoofs touch the ground.

Britons spend approximately £5 billion a year on footwear.

Until the 20th Century many Chinese women had their feet tightly bound in early childhood to form ‘golden lily’ feet no more than four inches long.

The foot has 250,00 sweat glands. The average pair of feet sweats half a pint of water a day,

Podiatrists and Chiropodists are the same thing.

Feet contain one quarter of the total bones in the entire body.

Around 70% of foot problems come from wearing the wrong footwear or ill fitting shoes.

Athletes foot is the most common skin infection in humans, it affects 70% of the population at least once during their lifetime.

With every mile we walk we shift approximately one hundred tonnes (the weight of a blue whale), just to move our own bodyweight forward.

Most people only notice their feet when they cause problems, and that happens to nearly everyone at some time in their life.

70% of foot problems are caused by poorly made or ill fitting shoes,