It seems interesting that when we think about our health, one of the last things we consider is the health of our legs. Yet, it’s our legs that let us 
criss-cross over this globe — wherever we live — from our early youth until our later years. It’s our legs that take us to football games, and they keep us moving in line at the grocery store.

But there is more to it than that. Consider our feet, for example. They are a genuine engineering marvel. Scientists, designers and architects have tried to replicate the fascinating assortment of bones and connective tissue that make up the feet and that miraculously allow the human foot to conform to any environment, but they still don’t even come close. And consider that the muscles in our legs not only propel us forward, backward, up and down, but also continually move blood back to our heart for vital oxygenation — night and day, over and over.

Recently, there has been a lot of speculation about how many steps a person should take every day to keep themselves healthy. Ten thousand seems to be the number you always hear. Certainly, there is a differing threshold for each person in each situation, but consider this: Ten thousand steps each day, three hundred and sixty five days each year, equals one thousand eight hundred and twenty five miles. That’s more than half way from New York 
to Los Angeles each year of your life.

Are your legs important? Absolutely. Should we do more to keep them healthy? You bet.

What shouldn’t surprise you is there are multiple options to help you keep your legs in wonderful working order. A podiatrist keeps your feet healthy. An orthopedic specialist works expertly with connective tissue and bones.

But what most people don’t know, is that doctors who specialize in vascular medicine, make legs that ache, itch and burn, healthy again. By using diagnostic ultrasound, these specialists miraculously uncover and repair the underlying causes of chronic leg pains that plague nearly one half of adults over the age of fifty.

The next time you stand up, take a second and consider those legs of yours, then consider what you can do to keep them healthy. You deserve it. And so do they.