feet: importance

re: "how to save your sole"
fr: 7days (2007 nov 11), p. 21.

"home to 33 joints, 107 ligaments, 19 muscles and 26 bones -- a quarter of all the bones in our body -- our FEET set the alignment for the rest of our body. and if our feet are not right, repercussions can be felt all the way up the jaw.

"the pressure generated on the foot from wearing very high or very low shoes can lead to all sorts of deformities and problems, like HEEL pain, hammer TOES (when one toe bends downward) or claw FOOT (when a toes bends downward and another upward). the problem then ricochets quickly up the kinetic chain of the body to the KNEE, affecting the gait cycle when you walk, the way that the HIP moves, teh position of the PELVIS and the direction of the SPINE. your foot's alignment can even address symptoms as high as the NECK and the JAW."

reflection:
the feet psychologically symbolize stability. foundation. rootedness. in architecture, the whole structure can solely depend on the foundation.