It's National Wiggle Your Toes Day. This day reminds us to give our feet some attention by letting the tootsies see daylight, after being wrapped up in socks for months. While many love to observe the ...

SHAKOPEE, Minnesota — "We believe kids need to be kids, they need to be active. They need to keep up with their friends on the playground, they need to participate in sports." That's just part of the ...

One of my favorite activities is going to the zoo where I live in Knoxville when it first opens and the animals are most active. On one recent weekend, I headed to the chimpanzees first. Their ...

Most of the muscles of your foot let you point your toes down, like when you stand on tiptoes, or lift them up, like when you ...

It was the faintest of movements, three toes barely wiggling. Jack Jablonski was sitting on his parents’ deck in Minneapolis before heading out to dinner on the Fourth of July when it happened. He’d ...

Most people try this at least once. You sit down, look at your foot and try to move just one toe, expecting it to behave like a finger. Instead, all your toes lift together or barely move at all. It ...

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