Benefits of Barefoot Gardening
Do you know that each foot contains up to 200,000 nerve endings, and our feet are sensory organs that are designed to touch the ground? Yes, that’s true! Patrick McKeon - Ithaca College’s School of Health Sciences and Human Performance professor states that barefoot activities can improve balance and posture and prevent injuries like shin splints, stress fractures, and bursitis. The safest and enjoyable way to go barefoot often is barefoot gardening. You could create a barefoot-friendly yard and enjoy benefits like: Stretch and strengthen the feet muscles, ligaments and tendons. Strengthen small muscles that in the feet that, in turn, communicate with large muscles in the feet and stabilize the body. Improve sleep patterns. Improve mental health, decrease anxiety and depression. Enhance body’s unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation. Load the joints less and prevent osteoarthritis. Restore gait. Improve balance. Prevent foot and ankl...