20/04/2026
🦶 This week is National Feet Week. How amazing are feet? Well, here’s a few foot facts for you…
🦶 Each foot has 26 bones, 33 joints and over 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments. The foot and ankle is a complex mechanical structure.
🦶 There are approximately 8,000 nerves in the feet—that’s more per square centimeter than any place else on your body.
🦶 Balance nerves (mechanoreceptors) are responsible for our balance. They send messages to the brain letting us know how feet are working and where they are in space. Not getting this feedback can reduce our balance and put us at greater risk of having falls.
🦶 Rarely are two feet on a person the same size.
🦶 In an average day of walking, your feet experience forces totaling hundreds of tons—the equivalent of a fully-loaded cement truck.
🦶 Podophobia is an intense fear of feet.
