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Foot Facts
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75% of Americans experience serious foot problems in their lifetime.
The foot contains 26 bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments and 19 muscles. 25% of your bones are in your feet. When these bones are out of alignment, so is the rest of the body.
Many foot problems are caused by ill fitting shoes.
Women have about four times as many foot problems as men. High heels are partly to blame.
About 60-70% of diabetics have mild to severe forms of neuropathy (nerve damage) in their extremities, which can lead to lower limb amputations.
Approximately 56,000 people a year lose their foot or leg due to diabetic complications. In 2002, about 82,000 non-traumatic lower-limb amputations occurred among diabetics.
There are 250,000 sweat glands in a pair of feet. Sweat glands in the feet excrete as much as a half-pint of moisture a day.
Walking barefoot can cause plantar warts.
The average person takes 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day. In a lifetime, that adds up to about 115,000 miles (24,140 kilometers) over a lifetime. That distance is equal to 4 times the circumference of the earth.
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