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Feet and Your Good Health
Categories: Chiropractic, Health & Wellness
Publish Date: 01/21/2010
health & Wellness
Feet Facts
Women suffer four times as many foot problems as men, mainly due to shoe fashions.
Feet contain one-fourth of the body’s bones, each foot has 28 bones.
Shoes should be large enough to allow feet to expand up to 10% during the day.
Force of gravity concentrates as much as 3 times a person’s body weight on the ankle.
The skin on the feet is 7 times thicker than skin on other parts of the body.
On an average day, feet travel more than 7000 steps.
In a lifetime, the average person will walk 115,000 miles.
Feet have approximately 250,000 sweat glands as compare to only 72,000 on the palms.
Feet lose more than ¼ pint of moisture a day.
Introduction of Foot Levelers AT CHIROHEALTH ROCKFORD
Did you know that unbalanced feet can be the cause of many problems? By balancing your feet, you can improve your posture, enhance your body’s performance and efficiency, reduce pain, and contribute to your total body wellness.
Balanced feet complement a chiropractic adjustment. ChiroHealth Rockford now offers Foot Levelers’ screening. This system takes a weight-bearing digital scan of your feet. In turn, we can order custom-made orthotics – just for you!
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