Foot stretching can relieve pain, boost immunity, balance your mood, and improve sleep—your feet might be your greatest ...

A growing body of biomechanical research suggests that returning to barefoot movement, even in small, deliberate dose, might ...

Walking and running upright on two feet as humans do requires some specialized adaptations of the skeleton and muscles. Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body ...

But for runners, there’s one often overlooked area that deserves some love: the muscles in your feet, specifically, the quadratus plantae. This small muscle is one of 20 in the feet that work in ...

“A foot cramp is experienced when an extrinsic (foot-leg) or an intrinsic (foot-foot) foot muscle is contracting involuntarily and suddenly,” says Christophe Champs, an expert in biomechanics ...

afarensis' small braincases and relatively large teeth and chewing muscles are ... exhibit human-like characteristics. They ranged in height from three and a half feet to five feet and walked ...