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Give Your Kids The Benefit of Barefooting
It’s no surprise that kids love to run around barefoot—it feels great! Somehow, they inherently understand the benefits of being barefoot, whether it is better balance, enhanced sensory perception or just the liberating feeling of the ground beneath their feet. For safety and protection, parents put traditional shoes or sneakers on their children, casting their feet at an early age. Unfortunately, this can actually weaken and over-correct feet, leading to a lifetime of foot problems, including misshapen toes, misaligned metatarsals and shortened plantar fascia. Many podiatrists actively challenge the assumption that traditional children’s footwear is healthful and allows natural foot development. We’re firmly in their court. Vibram FiveFingers® footwear is designed to provide the protection parents require, while giving kids all the benefits of going barefoot:
- Allows natural foot development
- Enhanced overall foot health
- Improved balance
- Increased circulation
- Natural movement
- Natural strengthening
- Natural toe spread
October 2002
Children’s Footwear: Launching Site for Adult Foot Ills
It’s time to advocate shoelessness for kids.
By William A. Rossi, DPM
Podiatry must now begin exchanging the old platitudes concerning the foot/shoe linkage in child foot development for the new realities. It must confront the simple premise that children’s feet fare better without rather than with shoes…
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