QUICK FACTS ABOUT FEET
Did you know?
- The human adult foot has 26 bones, 19 muscles, 107 ligaments and 250,00 sweat glands.
- Every week 85 Australians lose toes, a foot or lower limb because of Diabetes related complications.
- At birth a baby's foot has just 22 bones where an adult foot has 26 bones

- By the time a child is 8 years old, they will have walked 11 500km (Thats's equivalent to walking from London to New York and back again.)
- The skin on the souls of your feet is the thickest on your body. Toenails grow about 1mm a day, taking 5-6 months to grow an entirely new nail.
- More than 70% of all people will have painful feet at some time in their life.
- Foot pain is not normal.
