Strengthening toes by sitting barefoot, spreading toes, and attempting to lift each toe independently can improve neural pathway activation to distal body parts.

“being able to spread your toes on both feet actually says a lot about your ability to activate distal neural Pathways or I should say neural Pathways to distal parts of your body”

“one way you can do this is by sitting in a chair Barefoot spreading your toes as much as possible and then seeing whether or not you can lift each toe independently”

“and you think about your feet with those nice spread toes and the activated um musculature on the base and the top of your feet and running up the front of your shin and your calves you can really imagine how you're creating the most stable positioning on the floor stable positioning of the spine no wonder that the spine is not only going to experience less shearing stress less pain but you're also in a position position to create a nice strong chain of activation from the nerves and muscles from the base of the floor all the way up to your neck because you're already strengthening your neck”