Your Signal
Toes
10 min read
Also known as: Digiti pedis · foot toes · toes in general · toe problems · toe complaints · toe joints · foot fingers
Your Body Is Speaking
Your toes are small, but they decide everything that has to do with movement. Without them, no balance, no push-off, no secure step forward. They are the last points to touch the ground before you lift your foot — and the first to reestablish contact when you set it down. Ten small joints that carry you, align you, correct you. Each individual toe is a fine-tuning instrument of your gait.
Medicine knows hallux valgus, hammer toes, claw toes, numbness, gout in the big toe joint, ingrown nails, fractures and inflammation. The causes are sought in footwear, misalignments, circulation and metabolism — and often found there too. But the question remains: Why there? Why now? Why precisely at the body part responsible for your finest alignment while walking?
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