7 Facts You Didn’t Know About Feet

1.  A human foot and ankle is a strong, mechanical structure that contains 26 bones, 33 joints, and more than 100 muscles, tendons & ligaments.

2.  The 52 bones in your feet make up one quarter of all the bones in your body. When they are out of alignment, so is the rest of your body.

3.  There are approximately 250,000 sweat glands in a pair of feet, and they excrete as much as half a pint of moisture each day.

4.  The American Podiatric Medical Association states the average person takes 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day, which add up to 115,000 miles in a lifetime that’s more than 4 times the circumference of the globe!!

5.  About 6% of US population has foot injuries, bunions, flat feet or fallen arches each year.

6.  Foot ailments can become your first sign of more serious medical problems. Your feet mirror your general health, so conditions like arthritis, diabetes, nerve and circulatory disorders can show their initial symptoms in your feet.

7.  About 60-70% of diabetics will develop some form of diabetic nerve damage, which in severe forms can lead to diabetic lower limb amputation. Approximately 56,000 people a year lose their foot or leg due to diabetes.