Our feet take a lot from us. We are up on our feet almost all day and it is thus really important to take care

of these precious pressure points of our body. They bear a lot from us and it is essential to keep them healthy.

Not only should we wear the proper shoes but also keep them well pampered and healthy. Apart from the weekend pedicure and massage, we can do things every night so that we wake up better with fresh feet instead of tired ones.

The chief of podiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Dr. James Loli, has explained in his 4 page article that there are 3 key steps to get the best possible feet health we can get.

These are simple steps when taken carefully will keep us free from a lot of things!

Our feet become our base, providing us with support and ease. We should be able to absorb a lot of shocks that our body undergoes daily if we have healthy feet! When we run, jump or make leaps, we are making greater impacts with our feet. So the pressures our feet get are of the weight of our body weight and more.

Our feet are made up of 26 bones and 33 joints in all. They are lashed together intricately with about 100 ligaments along with their attachment to intrinsic and extrinsic muscles. These orchestrate our overall movement.