@mvmt101: Are you stimulating your feet?🦶 MIND = BLOWN Try the challenge yourself. FACT - there is an age related decline in the sensitivity of the receptors on the bottom of our feet FACT - You NEED the messages from these receptors if you want to to control movement, balance and stabilize your body. Without them movement is much harder. It’s like driving a car with a foggy windshield ( to quote @gaithappens) …or like listening to a symphony with ear muffs on ( to quote @dianelee). ▶️ by age 50 it takes 20% more pressure for these receptors to perceive a stimulus ▶️ by age 80 it takes 75% more pressure for these receptors to perceive a stimulus 🧠 No wonder old people walk around so cautiously, rigid and braced. THEY CAN’T FEEL THE GROUND 🎉 However if you stimulate these receptors, exercise your foot and get your foot into different shapes, you can prevent and even reverse this change. Foot wiping is a powerful tool to reverse these effects, improve your movement accuracy and experience what movement SHOULD FEEL LIKE. Try it yourself. ⚠️ Pro tip Feel like your feet are HYPERSENSITIVE? When our receptors for touch and vibration decline ( the ones we want) there is an increase in sensitivity for tickle and pain ( both travel on the Lateral Spinothalamic tract). That’s why tight areas on our body are often painful or ticklish. This gets better though! Thank you to @thefootcollective @correcttoes @Naboso_technology @human_locomotion @thegaitguys @gaithapppens @helenhallpfm @peterattiamd @drChatterjee @DNSrehabilitation @PosturalRestoration for contributing to our knowledge of feet how our body works so that we can feel better in our body and have it last a lifetime reference: Robbins S, Waked E. Foot position awareness: The effect of footwear on instability, excessive impact, and ankle sprain . Critical Reviews in Physical and Rehab Med. 1997, 9:53-74. #feet #footpain #plantarfasciitis #bunion #hammertoes

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