Before we talk about your back… let’s talk about your feet.
Massage and physiotherapy clinics often offer shorter treatment sessions in their price lists - for example, “back only”. This usually makes the session slightly cheaper and therefore slightly more attractive.
However, very often I meet clients who have never in their life received massage therapy beyond their back. And sometimes — quite shockingly — the “back” treatment did not even include the gluteal muscles, starting only from the lower back or even higher.
But today, I would like to talk about the foot.
Each human foot contains 26 bones, 33 joints and over 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments. These may sound like abstract numbers, yet they represent approximately a quarter of the bones in the entire body. A remarkable concentration of structure and function exists within such a small area.
For comparison, the hand contains 27 bones — and we constantly train, mobilise and use our hands with precision and variety. The foot, in contrast, is often confined within rigid footwear for most of the day.
Try spreading your toes in the same way you spread your fingers. Many people cannot. This simple test reveals how disconnected we have become from a crucial part of our movement system.
Human beings are designed to move, and movement begins at the foot. The foot absorbs the forces of standing, walking and running. It adapts to surfaces and transfers load upwards through the kinetic chain. When the foot loses mobility or stability, the consequences do not remain local. Instead, compensations travel upwards.
The foot is also unique in that it often does not immediately express pain. Rather than shouting, it quietly loses function. Pain is more likely to appear higher up — in the knees, hips, lower back or neck.
From a fascial perspective, the connection is even clearer. The plantar fascia — the dense connective tissue on the underside of the foot — is part of a continuous fascial line running through the posterior chain of the body. This fascial continuity extends from the sole of the foot, through the calves and hamstrings, into the lower back and further up towards the base of the skull.
It is continuous. Therefore, when we mobilise and release fascial restrictions beginning at the foot, we may observe positive changes even in areas such as the neck. This is not theoretical — it is something I regularly observe in clinical practice.
This leads to an important question:
What results can be expected if only 30% of the body is addressed during treatment?
For this reason, you will not find partial or “half-body” procedures in my price list. Even when a client reports discomfort in the neck alone, I aim to assess and treat the body as an integrated system.
The body does not function in isolated segments.
It works as a connected whole. And that whole begins at the ground.
28 / 02 / 2026