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Happy Feet is determined to help the public about the health of their feet.

It’s a long shot but if we can educate the public about the dangers of footwear at an early stage of life it’s beneficial for each and everyone of us. Education and awareness about the safe use of footwear is imminent and urgent.

Though l started my little foot clinic as a means of daily bread it has turned out that l have an obligation to teach and make the public aware about dangers the footwear can cause to our feet and our health.

Dealing with feet last 10 years has shocked me how much a simple footwear can have such an impact on our everyday life. You may laugh it out but l have something to share. Footwear influence the very formation of our feet over lifetime! and it can change our way of life and how we function! I say we need education and self awareness about the use of footwear from an young age.

We got to start from school! Parents! Mums Dads ! Is anyone of you a head teacher, teacher, health care professional Councillors MP, Mayor, PM, Health Minister, anyone who has something to do with public health help me. I am not after money but l really want help the public about the safe use of footwear. Visit me for advice for free! Footwear is used to protect our feet but unfortunately it’s damaging our feet..! due to lack of awareness about the safe use of footwear! I meet lots of people who are in tears due to their issues on their feet! Just because of footwear! It’s so simple to understand.

All those who have visited me insist that l should go around teaching children and make them aware of it..!please help . I know my notes are going to be least noted and noticed..!

But those who care and understand benefits..!

For the Footwear Using Community

We use footwear to protect our feet from the environment. But is it really protecting our feet or damaging it?

For the last few years, l have realised how much a footwear can damage our feet and can have an impact on our health. It’s an unknown fact that the population are unaware and uneducated about the impact of footwear on their health.

When l have explained in detail about the damages footwear can do to my clients feet, their questions were “Why l have not been told about it?” or “Why l was not made aware of it from a young age?” We are taught various basic life skills from a very young age. But have we ever been taught about the safe use of footwear? Or the functions of our feet? No! We have not! We just choose a footwear and stick them on our feet unaware of the damages it can cause to our feet and our health! We need to be taught and made aware of the long term dangers of footwear if it’s not rightly chosen or used.

Footwear can cause gradual and long lasting damages to our feet. 99% of the footwear using population’s feet are disfigured! And the truth is- they are not aware of it! They think this is how their feet is supposed to be! But it’s not! Our feet has a lifelong duty to help us walk! And toes on our feet are not just decorations but they are there for a purpose. Once they’re disfigured or dismantled due to the influence of footwear they become a pain rather than a purpose! We blame our ancestors for problems that we face on our feet! We blame our feet for problems on our feet! But do we ever blame our footwear for problems on our feet? No we don’t! It’s our choice of footwear that is to be blamed! So we need to learn to choose the right footwear.

Unless we learn to choose the right footwear from a young age it would be too late before we realise that our feet have gone through the damage. We need to be taught from a very young age through schools or parents or through any means the safe use of footwear. Most of the population who are above 50 have gone some sort of treatments on their feet for damages caused by footwear. It’s costs NHS millions for these treatments that could be avoided if simple basic awareness given to public from very young age. I know fashion has a lot of influence on our choices of footwear but the impact it can have on feet and health is beyond imagination.

I hope one day our nation would wake up to this danger and teach the new generation about the safe use of footwear and be an example for all other footwear using nations.🙏🏻

Happy Feet

Feet Built to Last!

Did you know your feet is a part of your body that’s built to last! It’s power is underestimated!

You were born with it you live with it you go bed with it you go holidays with it you work with it.. you do everything with it. How much have you cared for it? How close have you gone down to your feet?

You don’t want go too close ha? because it stinks? or it’s ugly? Let’s go up to your nose.. is your nose in good condition?

Has it got a bend that you are not happy with? Of course you are going to do something about it..! because it’s your nose! How about feet? the toes are bend! It’s all curled in and looks ugly!

Are you going to do something about it? naa it’s feet! It’s hidden in a footwear no one sees it so it’s fine!

Why Hate Feet?

People hate feet!

Most of the people whom l have met hate feet! So Feet is something that people don’t want to be part of their body? Why do people hate feet so much?

What l gathered is 1. Feet is ugly 2. Feet is smelly 3. Feet looks horrible 4. Feet hurts etc.

Now whose fault is it? You ? Your parents? your body? Your doctor? Your lifestyle? I think it takes about 10 minutes to understand exactly why we hate our feet! An appointment at happy feet once in a lifetime would turn you into loving caring and respecting your feet. Don’t be ashamed don’t be embarrassed don’t be scared don’t stop to learn about your feet!

No medical terminology used no shouting no pushing no rushing ! I just use simple English to make you understand what l understand. My goal is to make the maximum public aware of the influence the footwear has on the formation of your feet over lifetime! Benefits?

Happy feet, save money, Good health. Try Happy feet once in a lifetime.

Follow Happy Feet

I will teach you how to look after your feet! Your whole family! promise.

For just £30 your whole family can learn how to look after their feet! Introducing family package @£30! Just book an appointment on the name of one of your family members and the whole family can turn up together! l can accommodate maximum 5 family members at a time!

For just £30 the whole family learns about feet,how to choose the right footwear and how to save your feet and money! Book now you won’t be disappointed. I have promised myself to teach maximum people how to look after their feet and it’s life circle! The basic awareness about the safe use of footwear is missing from our community!

It should have been taught at school, surgeries, by parents etc.

But it’s not there! But Happy feet wants to😊 please share this info purely for the sake of the health of the feet of the public!

How Clean Is Your Feet?

Did you know 90% of the footwear using community’s feet are dirty!

Specially between the toes! I can explain ! Over years footwear moulds your feet into the shape of a footwear. Remember the toes are supposed to stay wide on feet. But over years due to your footwear moulding your feet into the shape of a footwear the toes get attached without a space between them. When you have a shower all the dirt from your body gets washed and flows through your feet!

Now the toes being attached each other works like a filter accumulating dirt between the toes. It gets unnoticed and you do the same thing everyday! Over days the dirt that is accumulating between the toes turns nastyyyy!

A perfect nursery for fungus or rather a ditch! As your feet is so far away from your eyes and nose you don’t realise the mess between your toes! Keep your toes apart! Avoid pressuring your toes by your footwear! Go up in footwear size!

You are 2 sizes short of your actual foot size! Any doubt? l can explain it for free! Free your toes! Clean between your toes everyday, brush your toenails everyday during shower using a toothbrush dipping into bit of diluted Detol or soap. (don’t use your other half’s toothbrush!)

Treat your feet like any other part of your body. After all it’s part of your body

Beware of Footwear!

Happy Feet says people who are above 50 been or will go through a knee replacement hip replacement toe correction toenail removal toenail part removal ingrown toenail treatment fungal infections painful corns cracked heels bunions thickened toenails athletic foot disfigured feet etc etc.. all due to footwear.. unaware of the safe use of footwear!

Of course we need footwear to protect our feet! but is it protecting our feet or rather damaging it? Think!

Your Feet Are Disfigured!

99% of the footwear using population’s feet are disfigured! The only part of your body that’s more disfigured than any other part of your body! Look down to your feet! Is that your original feet? No it’s not..! You got disfigured feet! it’s a fact that we got to investigate.. how did l get my feet disfigured? Have a think.

It is not the disfigurement but the changes in our walking patterns caused by disfigurement can have a tremendous impact on our body that is more severe than we think!

Are We Underestimating Our Feet?

Our feet are studded with nerves.. nerve ends ..through which our body absorbs and sends out information. Our feet are linked to our organs through nerves. Our feet is the only area where we are in contact with the earth. As creatures of the earth it’s important to have a link with the earth through our feet.. after all we are all born barefoot..! The earth has enormous energy like magnetic energy that can be received/absorbed through our feet that can heal lots of our body/mind related problems. Have you heard of people using crystal therapy?? A good reflexologist can literally give some information about your health by just feeling your feet..! Over years of using unfitting footwear weakens the nerves on our feet leading to lack of sensation and for a diabetic specially it’s a reason to be concerned about. Footwear is meant to protect our feet but it turns into a prison where our feet is redesigned, reshaped, disfigured, tortured, hammered, suffocated, hidden, bruised, ignored, hated, abused ..etc..etc.. and still we walk on it run on it sit on it work on it sleep on it … all our life… it’s time to free them. Get them out of prison and put them in a disco… let them dance.. let them wiggle..! They love freedom like any other part of your body. Free them please. You are using a footwear size that you were using when you were a teenager..! Right.. ? You have grown out of it…! You changed your dress size.. why not your footwear size..? Your feet wants to stretch and flex as we grow up and get older. Common you haven’t got four legs.. just two so our body has to be balanced on two legs that’s why we are given toes..! in order to steady our footing and balancing. “Footwear influences the very formation of our feet over our life time “ This basic awareness is lacking in our footwear using society. And this awareness is not spread among communities by our doctors, schools, government or our parents. Teach the public how to use a good footwear at an early stage and we will have 3 million waiting list reduced to 2 million people who are requiring knee and hip replacements…!

To be continued

Watch Out……!!!!

Children teenagers adults watch out..your feet will be one day this way if you don’t provide suitable footwear..! Foot wear can influence the very formation of your feet over lifetime..! It leads to disfigurement of your toes, ingrowing toe nails, corns, hard skin buildup, cracked heels, athlete’s foot, bunions, hammer toes, fungal, change in walking patterns, knee troubles, hip troubles, arthritis and an uncomfortable feet as you get older. Remember you need a comfortable feet more than anything when you are old. So invest in a good feet😊 Happy Feet can help..

Fungal Infections

There are lots of myths about fungal infections on toenails. When you see a part of your toenail is discoloured you come to the conclusion it is fungal. Then you are concerned. You try and buy what ever you can to stop it from getting discoloured. But what exactly is causing the discolouration? Before you decide to treat it have you thought about how it all happened? No you didn’t. You rather attempted to treat it without knowing how it happened. Discolouration is the sign of a trauma. When something presses or rubs on any part of your toenails can leads damage to that part and it can turn to whitish or similar colours. Mostly you see whitish. It’s the accumulation of dead cells of the actual healthy toenails. Toenails are normally pinkish when they are attached to the nail bed. But if the toenail is not attached to the nail bed then it’s a dead nail. It turns into white. So the area what you see is the accumulation of dead cells of the actual toenail. So when an area of your toenail is pressured over longtime it gets gets detached from the nail bed and when it is detached from the nail bed it is dead nail. Now it’s the dead part of the toenail that the fungus are interested. They are not interested in healthy cells of your toenail but they are interested in the dead part of your toenail. Given sufficient time suitable atmosphere the fungal can establish itself into a part of your toenail and flourish. So just a whitish part of your toenail needn’t have to be fungal infected but could invite fungal. Fungal is a medium used by nature to decay a dead cell. You cut down a tree in a jungle after few years you go back to the fallen tree you find it it has no life it is covered in varieties of fungus /mushrooms growing on it. Fungus are attracted to dead cells. That’s their role in this nature. Damaged part of our toenails are always attracted by fungus. If given enough time to establish themselves they can take over the whole toenail. So now what’s the solution? Footwear! Only footwear can help you. The very damage to your toenails were caused by footwear. So correct your footwear. No other way out. Wear footwear that is suitable for your feet. Footwear causes gradual damage to your feet including toenails. Keep your toes nice and wide in a footwear. Don’t allow your footwear to keep your toes packed in a footwear. Allow them enough room to wiggle about. When you choose a footwear always make sure you have enough room for your toes to stay wide and make sure your foot doesn’t slide backward and forward but secure them with a good strap/Velcro/laces. Do not allow your feet to slide inside your footwear but give enough room for your toes to wiggle about. Let your toes do their job. The moment you bundle them up in your footwear they are not able to work for you rather they remain in prison. Put them in a disco. Let them be free. They need freedom. Your toes need freedom they don’t want to be in a prison. So to conclude fungal infections are caused by ill fitting footwear. Need more proof and explanation? Visit happy feet once in a lifetime.

Thickened or Hard Toenails

We are always concerned when we see our toenails going thick. We have lots of opinions and assumptions about thickened toenails. Now let’s think together. As we know we use footwear from the time we are hardly a month or two old in the form of baby shoes. Then you have footwear on your feet all your life except when you go to bed. You learn to walk/run all in footwear. You go to nursery, school, college, university you have footwear on your feet. Even today you got footwear on your feet. So our feet live and form itself in footwear. All the parts of our body grow and form itself to be what it should be but not our feet! Our feet grow and form itself in footwear and it never gets a chance to grow and form itself to be what it should be. Footwear mould our feet over years. Our feet loses its original design. The feet you got now is not the original shape of your feet. It’s been moulded reshaped redesigned literally disfigured. If the footwear can press your toes and reshape them we can imagine the amount of pressure our toes are going through every day. Now think what you got at the end of your toes ? Toenails! They come under pressure from footwear. Like our fingernails our toenails too need an unobstructed space to grow. But toenails are not that lucky. They are constantly pressed by footwear which blocks its growth. Our toenails are not able to grow straight forward instead they start growing on itself. It needs to grow and does by growing on itself. It starts getting hard and thickened. It starts creating layers. It can grow 10 or more times thicker than the normal thickness. It takes time. Years. That’s why thickened toenails are found mostly among middle aged onwards. Thickened toenails can be easily misunderstood as fungal infected. But not all thickened toenails are fungal infected. But thickened toenails can be easily attracted by fungal. The layers of the thickened toenails provide a safe heaven for fungal to hide and given enough time and atmosphere fungal can thrive. Thickened toenails can gradually break off or crumble away. Toenails that grow thick would continue to grow thick because that’s how now they are reprogrammed. Most of the thickened toenails regular maintenance would be the best option. Thickened toenails can contain lots of dead cells which could attract fungal so getting rid of damaged part of the toenails would be a good idea. Happy feet would be happy to assist you with any concerns regarding thickened toenails

Bunions!

As someone said it’s a cross between a bun and an onion 😁. Bunions..! a nightmare among elderly and going to be elderly 🤭. It makes your life so hard that you can’t find the right footwear or your feet looks so ugly. What are bunions. It’s very commonly used word especially among older ages. To understand bunions we don’t need a degree but let’s try and understand just using our common sense. As we all know we are all born barefoot and we should be walking barefoot but the environment force us to use footwear to protect our feet. Now if we look at footwear that we used all our life they were all shaped pointed or curling inward. But if you notice your toes they curl outward. We got only two legs not four. That’s why we are given toes..! Toes are designed to stay wide on your feet to balance yourself and give you a good footing on the ground and it controls your walking pattern. As we have most of our footwear designed to be pointed or curling inward the footwear gradually force our toes to curl inward over lifetime. It’s a gradual process that happens unnoticed. As we all know our feet is constructed of pieces of bones connected through joints. It’s like a building made of metal and concrete. The very backbone or the strength of our feet are the pieces of bones beautifully arranged to help us walk as human. Footwear that we use from age 1 starts moulding the bones of our feet gradually curling them inward. When our toes wants to spread itself to give you a good footing the footwear forces them to stay inward curled in pressed together and they go through a gradual transformation. The very pieces of bones that makes your perfect feet go dismantled displaced rearranged redesigned. The toes start curling inward from the joints. The whole structure of our feet collapse. The more the toes are pushed inward by footwear the more the the big toe starts turning inward at Metatarsus area and it’s gets wider and wider and reach stage where you can’t find footwear that would fit your feet. So to conclude bunions are footwear made. They can never be inherited unless it’s a rare case. No one is born with bunions. We are all born with perfect feet like any other part of your body. It’s the footwear that we used in the past that redesigned and reshaped our feet. Don’t blame our ancestors. We can inherit a design of feet from our parents or grandparents but not bunions or ingrowing toenails or fungal infections. The very basic awareness that ‘footwear can influence the very formation your feet over lifetime’ is missing from our footwear using society. We need to start from children. They need to learn the safe use of footwear so that they have better feet as they get older. From age 1-20 is the time when our feet gets its shape then onwards it needs to stay wide without being obstructed by any force from footwear. Suitable footwear rather than fitted footwear that’s what we need for our feet. 90% of the issues found on feet are related to ill fitting footwear and bunions are not excluded ..! happy feet happy you.😊🙏🏻

Why Would You Visit Happy Feet?

Anyone who uses footwear can have issues on their feet as they get older. These issues can be controlled and reduced by having a check and a regular maintenance. Having someone keeping an eye on your feet and looking after it would save you from expensive treatments from high street clinics that can cost you up to £400! Costing just £25 at clinic or £30 at home a session with Happy Feet would give you peace of mind and allow you to know what is going on your feet. Providing foot care services in Rushden over 8 years Happy Feet is the most recommended foot clinic in town. Try once you won’t regret it. Getting your toenails properly trimmed filed creamed and lookout for any issues and helps you with it for £25! Would be well worth. Save this info for you and your family.

Silent Killer!

Footwear.. a silent killer..! It’s too late by the time you realise that it has reshaped your feet leading to various issues you find every day. Teach your children and grandchildren how to use footwear. It’s something that we need to grow up with. The awareness that ‘footwear influences the very formation of your feet over lifetime ’ is very much missing from our community. It’s heartbreaking to see youngsters turning up with painful ingrowing toenails! Minimum 5 cases a week at clinic. Why? It’s so simple to understand with our own common sense that we are born barefoot and we should be walking barefoot. Of course we need protection for our feet from environment please do so but allow your feet to do its job even in a footwear. The toes on your feet are not just decorations they are there for a purpose. They help you to walk properly. They control your movement they dictate your walking pattern. The moment you bind them up in footwear they are unable to help you to walk the way you should walk but lead you to pick up a different walking pattern that can lead to joints of your hips and knees wearing out and picking up unwanted pressure points on your feet . Footwear without your knowledge can gradually reshape your feet over years. So use footwear that is suitable not fitted. We need footwear that keeps our toes wide as they should be. Use your imagination to provide enough room for your toes to stay wide. From childhood onwards your footwear should be always a size ahead of your feet. It means that as we grow our toes grow and stretch itself so give its room in footwear. No matter what brand or cost what your feet need is room in a footwear. My question is are you using footwear size from a teenage time? You maybe using the footwear size for a long time maybe from teenage. But we change as we grow up and our feet too wants to stretch and flex itself. You changed yourself a lot from a teenager to now. eg. Your dress size changed? You put on some weight? You been a mum and carried some weight? Means you changed a lot over years but your footwear size never changed it remained same from the teenage time. So it means your feet is still in a teenage size footwear? 🤭Don’t you agree? You may have changed a size but still a size difference is very little. Your feet has grown out of your current footwear size! think about it😊🤭

Why Spend Millions!

Don’t spend millions to care or solve a problem on your feet..! A little chat can solve most of your foot problems 😊.. try it before it’s too late. You don’t have to have a problem to visit Happy Feet but to learn more about your feet..! Tell me who else teaches you about how to choose and use the right footwear from your childhood? Your parents ? your doctor ? your nurse ?your teacher ? Your MP ? No one ..! believe me no one..! They teach you everything but they don’t teach you how to choose and use the right footwear..! It’s no one’s fault. Its our responsibility? It’s the fact that we forget we are born barefoot and we should be walking barefoot..! But hey ho due to the environment we got to protect our feet.. there comes footwear. But now how much you know about choosing the right footwear? It’s crucial because from the time we are born we grow..! till we’re an adult..and feet too grow.. but is our footwear growing with it.? No.. that’s my verdict after 9 years talking to feet..!😊 l got something to tell you about your feet as long as l am around..! Happy feet is all about a happy feet. Learn about the transformation of your feet over lifetime that way you can solve your own problems of your feet..trust me.. l mean it. It takes just £25..and 20 minutes (for my time and shop cost😂) Try me once in a lifetime! You won’t regret it.. You are not impressed..? You don’t pay..! What else you need..?😊 (fact: 99% of the population of the footwear using people’s feet are disfigured..! leading to changes in walking patterns causing major issues starting with hip replacements and knee replacements..! costing NHS millions ..!

“Footwear Waste “ Have you heard this term before?

May be we could give a little thought to it. If you count the number of footwear at your home you will be amazed 🤭. How many of them are really used? Just few! rest of them sit there in your wardrobes. Most of them you seen it somewhere liked it bought it wore it couple of times and it starts hurting here and there and it goes back in the wardrobe. You might never use it again! That footwear is now potentially a waste a Footwear Waste! Every such footwear is added up to a lot when you think about the whole family. They gradually end up in a charity shop or tip. The amount of money you spent on them goes to waste. The space it takes at your home is a lot 🤭. Now what can we do to reduce this Footwear Waste? Happy Feet says: The very reason for this is the lack of knowledge about choosing the right footwear. Choose footwear that suits your feet not your eyes and mind 😊

If you think about the time you started using footwear it goes all the way back to your childhood

When you were hardly a month old your mum/dad dresses you with a lovely baby shoes! Then you slowly learn walk run all in footwear, you go to nursery then go to school college university all in footwear! Check your feet now you got a footwear on!😁.

We use footwear all our lifetime. Now how does footwear influence the very formation of our feet? As we can notice most of the footwear the front end is pointed. Curling inward? But our toes want to spread outward to give its stability and good footing. As we humans are designed with only two legs the toes play a vital role in keeping us steady and well balanced. Over years toes adjust itself to fit into the given footwear and stay that way all the time . It’s clear that our toes stay squeezed inside the footwear for all its life. As we grow every part of our body forms itself to the way it should be. But poor feet don’t get its original form rather it gets gradually moulded into the shape of a footwear. We use footwear sizes that are one or more sizes shorter than the actual size of your feet. Footwear sizes should be one size bigger than the original size of your feet. Now what is the original size/width of your feet? Just look at your hands ! Fold your thumb inward and spread your four fingers wide that should be as same as the original width of your feet! Check now 😊

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