About Foot Respect
Why we are called ‘Foot Respect’...
The inspiration for ‘Foot Respect’ came from Leonardo da Vinci, who said that “the human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art”. Every foot is unique in structure, meaning that no two feet are the same. Your feet have taken you a route that no other person has walked. The average person with an average stride and living to the age of 80 will walk approximately 110,000 miles (216,262,500 steps), which is more than four times around the earth at the equator, which is 24,901 miles. Most of us take our feet for granted. We often neglect them and subject them to massive stresses and strains as we go about our daily activities. Little wonder then that feet, our engineering masterpieces, both deserve and demand our respect in both sickness and in health.
About Brian McDonogh
Brian McDonogh, DipFH, MCFHP, MAFHP, is a Foot Health Professional (FHP) providing an up-to-date quality and caring footcare service to residents in the Horsham area of West Sussex.
Brian’s qualification includes a one year Diploma in Foot Health (DipFH) from the Queen Margaret University (Edinburgh) through the SMAE Institute in Maidenhead. He is fully qualified, registered, and insured. Brian is also a Member of the Open College of Foot Health Professionals (MCFHP) as well as the British Association of Foot Health Professionals (MAFHP).
Interesting Facts About Feet
Each human foot has 26 bones and both feet have almost a quarter of the 206 bones in the human skeleton. Each foot has 33 joints, and 112 ligaments. The movements of each foot are controlled by 13 extrinsic (originating outside the foot) and 21 intrinsic (originating inside the foot) muscles.
With each stride we take, the pressure imposed on some joints in the foot is as much as two and a half times our body weight.
The foot is the furthest structure from the heart and is often the first part of the body to be affected by poor circulation, diabetes and arthritis.
Each foot has approximately 125,000 sweat glands and can sweat profusely on hot days and in shoes that can’t breathe.