Your Pregnancy

HEALTHY FEET MATTER

Are you worried about your toddler’s bandy legs or knock knees? His flat feet or ingrown toenails?

The way your baby walks, runs and balances on his feet could affect his skeletal development from his ankles, knees, hips and spine as he grows older.

The average adult walks 18 000 steps a day – children can do a lot more than that. For this, we use design masterpieces: each foot has 26 bones, 19 muscles, over 100 ligaments, thousands of nerve endings and a complex network of veins. No wonder modern humans protect their feet with shoes. Unfortunately, though, this also leads

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