Recommended reading: The Human Foot by Leslie Klenerman and Bernard Wood: Learn more about the human foot, its evolutionary history from when it started out as a fin, and understand why the human foot is the way it is today. The foot is a lesser well understood region of the human body. In this book, an orthopaedic surgeon and a paleoanthropologist get us closer to a better understanding by using the study of evolution, modern imaging, physiology, and biomechanics. As reflexologists, the foot is one of our major working instruments to improve our patient’s health. As such, understanding this extremely complex motor and sensory organ which is in charge of sending so much information back to the brain and the rest of the body, is key to our profession and vital if we are ever to describe in scientific terms mechanisms which as of yet remain unsolved: What causes the different textures we feel? We call them deposits of toxins or congestions but the fact of the matter is that we still don’t know what they are made of, why they accumulate in the foot, or why there are different types of textures from one part of the foot to the other, one patient to another, one type of ailment to another.