From Your Head To Your Toes: 3 Body Parts Your Sore Feet Could Affect
Sore, aching feet are no fun, and they can make it much harder to do daily errands and go about your life. While there are some fixes you can try for those pained feet, you may be tempted, especially if you own a car, to put it off in favor of more seemingly pressing issues But did you know that the aching in your feet could actually affect the health and strength of other parts of your body?
So, if you've got aching feet and are wondering what other body aches could be attributed to your podiatric malady, then here's what you need to know.
1. Your Back
Countless Americans suffer from back pain—statistics put that number at an unbelievable 31 million—and for many, sore feet could be the cause. You'll walk differently on sore feet than you do fresh, unhurt ones, and with that change in gait, your back is often the first place to suffer.
The pain will mostly be centered in your lower back, where your spine meets your pelvis, as it's the joint that connects your upper and lower body that will feel the most stress of the more flexible lower body joining oddly with the more rigid upper body.
2. Your Hips
Another victim of the changed gait that sore feet inspire is your hips. Your hips are one of the easiest places on your body to injure, but one of the hardest to heal up properly because of their finicky design and their constant use in day-to-day activities. Unlike a broken arm or leg, you can't just put your hips out of commission for a few weeks, after all.
When you're walking even a little oddly, you'll start to feel it in your joints, especially the joints in your pelvic region, because those joints are directly affected by your gait. Even a day or two of walking oddly can lead to sore hips for a week or two, given how delicate the joints in your pelvis actually are (especially if you're a woman).
3. Your Neck
You might not think that something as far down your body as your feet could have negative consequences all the way up to your neck, but to think that is to underestimate how bad for your body it is to have damaged feet.
Part of that pain will come from holding your body stiffly as you walk through the discomfort, as that stiffness is a response to pain, but the other part comes through the fact that a misaligned gait can hurt your spine (as detailed above). When your spine is being hurt, you'll feel it all the way up to your neck.
For more information, talk to companies like Northern Care Inc Prosthetics & Orthotics.
