Ideally, you would go most of the day without shoes, but not everyone can do that. Stop wearing shoes with heels and start wearing flat shoes, otherwise referred to as zero drop. Make the wrong choice and you may be setting yourself up for a lifetime of foot pain.Īccording to Kelly Starrett and a handful of medical studies, wearing the wrong footwear can cause knee pain, foot pain and ankle pain, much of it due to shortened heel cords and improper functioning of the foot. The problem with that is most shoes will, over time, change the actual shape of your foot, leading to many of the problems below. Most people purchase shoes out of convenience, comfort or the way they look. Whether you know it or not, most adults in America have feet that aren't anything like what nature intended for us. Most foot related issues and many issues with the knees and hips can be traced back to standard footwear in some way. Please listen to this podcast and learn some of the tools and practices you can implement to support your feet. You can even reverse your foot problems by slowly transitioning to the right footwear and learning to go barefoot as much as possible. Many people opt for surgery to remove this “bunion” which is actually a natural part of their foot. In fact, this is the natural position of the bone and only appears to protrude because the toe has been squashed into the wrong place. The bunion is actually caused by trying to fit our feet into unnaturally narrow shoes (which are the majority of shoes on the market) and this pushes the big toe into the other toes, causing the bone to appear to protrude out the side of the toe. He says that people having bunion surgery are actually cutting off a natural part of their foot. In Daniel Vitalis’s ReWild Yourself Podcast #140, a medical foot doctor describes something crazy that we're doing to our feet. Never knowing that they could often alleviate this pain through using appropriate footwear. The majority of people wearing shoes will experience knee and foot pain often related to the shoes they are wearing. Your shoes are forcing you to walk with an unnatural gait, deforming your feet (Chinese foot binding anyone?) and is most likely the cause of knee and foot pain. We've also gotten away with walking into a car dealership without shoes (because we forgot to put a pair in the car) and we never bring shoes with us when we leave the house for jiujitsu practice. It turns out you can go outside without shoes, even in cold weather, and it's definitely healthier. "It's cold out, put on shoes!" "You can't go without shoes" and other lines. My own parents have yelled at my kids to put on shoes before they go outside. I hear so many parents today yelling at their children to put shoes on before they go out the door. Modern footwear is almost certainly hurting your feet! Modern shoes are certainly worse for your feet than the shoes your ancestors used to wear.įor most of us, wearing shoes is just what we did from an early age. In the grand scheme of things, footwear is a relatively recent invention. We are able to walk great distances EVERY day without many of the problems associated with our feet in this modern era. Before the domestication of horses, and for many people long after, our feet have been our primary mode of transportation. Our feet are were made to get us from point A to point B. No matter how you feel about walking barefoot, the evidence shows that we were not meant to wear the types of footwear which are commonplace today. There's no better feeling than your bare feet against the soft ground, your toes squishing in the mud and the great connection you feel with the earth.
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