Blog – Top Tips

A day dedicated to measuring feet appears to be a strange concept. However, 23rd January is National Measure Your Feet Day. It's an opportunity for everyone to give your feet a little more attention. People rarely think about their feet, but they are a vital part of our everyday lives and require as much care as any other part of our bodies, if not more! National Measure Your Feet Day originates from Iceland. Ancient Icelanders spent most of their free time, either bowling or ‘shelbing’*. Shelbing is high-fiving with your feet! When spring, a time known for extreme rainstorms in Iceland, the natives would run into their huts, and celebrate the rain by measuring their feet and then pairing off. Shelbing was a customary way to celebrate the rainstorms. Soon enough world leaders caught wind of this usual tradition and found a way to commemorate it, and it continues to this day!

Sunburnt feet are a real risk, even within the UK! However, one of the downsides of living in the UK is that we are not used to hot sunny days during the summer. But, when we do get them, we jump at the chance of wearing our flip-flops and sandals and forget about our feet getting sunburnt. Unfortunately, no matter what activities you have planned on these sunny days, nothing can ruin the nice weather like painful sunburn, and especially on your feet. When this happens, you need to know how to treat sunburnt feet! After spending the late morning and early afternoon outdoors on a summer's day, you might come inside only to find charred feet! When this is the case, it is time to treat that foot sunburn.

Now that Wimbledon is over for, there's always a surge of interest at tennis clubs around this time, so here is our Tennis Foot Care Tips. Whether you're an avid tennis player, professional or new to the sport, these tennis top tips should help your feet out. Health and fitness are so important, so this is great news. But, it is important to take care of your feet if you play.

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