At Pasco Hernando Foot & Ankle, we love April! It’s National Foot Health Awareness Month and a great opportunity for us to share information on our favorite topic: protecting your feet.

At Pasco-Hernando Foot & Ankle, we know that numbness in the feet is a symptom that may come on gradually. At first, you may just feel like your foot’s “asleep” or has pins and needles, but as time goes on, you realize you can’t perceive sensations in your feet as well as you have formerly.

Here on the Nature Coast, we know that our winters are not as severe as in some parts of the country, but at Pasco Hernando Foot & Ankle, we want to inform patients about the risk of fungal and other foot infections at this time of the year. Several factors combine to increase the chances of contracting one.

When it comes to fungal infections like athlete’s foot and toenail fungus, we at Pasco-Hernando Foot & Ankle often have patients tell us that they didn’t seek treatment sooner because the condition wasn’t causing them any pain. In honor of Fungal Disease Awareness Week, which occurs in September, we’d like to share some information about how these infections affect your feet and what to do about them.

At Pasco Hernando Foot & Ankle, we invite all our Nature Coast patients to join us in celebrating National “I Love My Feet” Day, which takes place on August 17th. Most of us take our feet for granted—until they aren’t working the way they should! But your feet deserve recognition. These complex structures consist of 52 bones (nearly a quarter of all the bones in your body), 66 joints, and over 200 muscles, tendons, and ligaments. All work in perfect harmony so that you can walk, run, kick, squat and reach to accomplish everything from grocery shopping to ballroom dancing. Below are seven ways to show your love and gratitude to your feet.