Our Feet Issues...
Yes! Our feet are important!
About a month ago I wrote about shoes... No, not fashionable shoes, but my favourite shoes: Minimal shoes. The shoes we wear can be a major contributing factor to our foot health, that seemed like a great place to start. And since next month is National Foot Health Awareness month in the US let's keep going on the foot topic.
Do you know how prevalent foot pain is? Close to 1 in 4 people1 suffer from foot pain and foot issues are a risk factor for locomotion disabilities, poor balance and falling, loss of independence and quality of life.
If you are planning on aging well, you need to keep your feet healthy! Our feet bear the weight of our bodies and our movement... yet we put them into stiff, impractical shoes and they turn into the LEAST conditioned part of our bodies!
So what can we do? Let's start by finding out just how healthy they are. Human Locomotion has a metronome test that gives you a starting point. Here is a video explaining a simple test. Download a metronome app to your phone, get a yoga block, and see how many times you can do a single calf raise in time with a 60 bpm rhythm.
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