Homo sapiens had always walked – even before there was language, they’d walked. It was a simple, fundamental need of their species: walk. So why did everyone outsource it: cars, electric bikes, escalators, lifts? She liked reminding her patients of the incredible mechanics of the human foot: twenty-six bones, thirty-three joints, and over a hundred muscles, tendons and ligaments – all working in structural harmony to enable us to walk.
