Your Child's Feet
The Importance of Fitting
From the time your child starts walking unaided, they are ready to have their first proper shoes. It is extremely important that those shoes are properly and professionally fitted. Sadly, wearing ill fitting shoes in a child's formative years may adversely affect not just their feet, but their ankles, knees, hips and backs as well!
Because the bones in little feet are not fully formed your child may not feel much discomfort from ill-fitting shoes. Even if they were to feel pain, they may be too young to tell you if their shoes or socks hurt. But if shoes are not well fitted, the child shifts their body weight or changes the way they walk to compensate. This puts pressures on other areas of the body and may create aches and pains elsewhere.
We are here to help you look after your child's feet. We hope the information in the tabs on the right will help you too.
Foot Facts
Some funny facts about human feet.
- The adult foot contains 6% of the moveable joints in the body.
- Each step we take uses 54 muscles.
- The average person takes 1800 steps per day.
- Each foot will sweat over an egg cup full of moisture each day.
- The foot is the first part of the body to stop growing.
- The average person walks around the world 10 times during their lifetime.
- A normal adult foot contains 26 bones.
- Young children's feet in the 90's were approximately 2 sizes longer than 60 years before.
