Maintaining our ability to balance is incredibly important, as balancing on one leg is an integral part of walking. Like so many other things in our bodies, our ability to balance diminishes with age. However it falls into the ‘use it or lose it’ rather than the ‘once it’s gone, it’s gone’ camp, so it […]
Feet
Warning! Your feet are your foundations
I’ve written a lot about feet recently because our feet are hugely important to our health and well-being. They are our foundations, and, as with all vertical structures, if the foundations aren’t sound the structures above are at risk. Even if your feet don’t hurt, they may be causing pain or dysfunction elsewhere in your […]
Foot mobility: do you have planks on the ends of your legs?
We could all do with better foot mobility. A few minutes a day of stretching and moving your feet will do them the world of good. Our feet are our foundations and if they aren’t healthy – pliant, mobile responders to the ground below us and to the movement coming down from the body above […]
Shoe Rant
We all think of the ancient Chinese practice of foot-binding as cruel and barbaric. Yet we think nothing of squeezing our feet into pointy-toed, high-heeled, painful shoes – ladies, I’m talking to you here (and holding up my hand as a bit of a hypocrite) – on a regular basis, purely for the aesthetic value. […]
Rotational feet, Or: I thought pronation was bad!
We all think of the movement at our feet happening in a straight line, along the line of the bend of the ankle. But in healthy walking there is a rotational movement at the foot as well, with the midfoot rolling down and into pronation and then up and out into supination. Pronation has got […]
Bunion Busting!
When an area of the body has restricted movement the flow of blood (supplier of nutrition in the form of oxygen), lymph (remover of waste) and electricity (nervous impulse) is restricted, leading to unhealthy tissue with poor cellular regeneration. Many peoples’ toes have dramatically restricted movement, thanks to a lifetime of wearing shoes. Our toes […]