Well, so far we have discusses and enjoyed reading about the most beautiful, ugliest, trendsetting and season’s shoes and celebrity gossips as well. But today we have really a complicated topic to discuss about. While browsing over the net, I came across “You Walk Wrong” article by Adam Sternbergh, the Co-founder of ‘Fametracker’, an editor-at-large at ‘New York Magazine’ and the co-author of ‘Hey’. Guys, the article is really worth reading and it impressed me a lot that I thought of do writing a blog post on the battle of shoes vs. feet for my fellow readers. Hope you do love to read this post.
Fashions' dictate are often ill-assorted with the body requirements. Excessive stress on the foot ultimately affects the leg, hip, back, and neck thus ensuing many foot health problems. The higher the heels size of your sandals/shoes, the greater the risk for injury. It’s not just the stilettos or boots or any pointy toed shoes that affect your foot health but all shoes are ranked the same which wincingly jams your feet tightly inside them.
We wrap our gifted feet in shoes because we worry that they may get hurt walking on hard surfaces. Yeah I do admit this. But do you know what the famous shoe designer and the lead person of the English Shoe Company C & J Clark speaks in this regard. Clark says, “There are no gimmicks, it’s a back-to-basics philosophy: that the great Lord designed us perfectly to walk around without shoes.”
Last year after much research, the researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, published a study titled “Shod Versus Unshod: The Emergence of Forefoot Pathology in Modern Humans?” in the podiatry journal The Foot. Dr. Bernhard Zipfel, one of the lead researchers commenting on this research said that “American Podiatric Medical Association does not actively encourage outdoor barefoot walking for healthy individuals. This flies in the face of the increasing scientific evidence, including our study, that most of the commercially available footwear is not good for the feet.” So, this study proves that most of the shoes are proved uncomfortable on human’s feet.
Well, while digging the past records, in a 1999 article in Podiatry Management Dr. Williams A. Rossi says “Natural gait is biomechanically impossible for any shoe-wearing person. It took 4 million years to develop our unique human foot and our consequent distinctive form of gait, a remarkable feat of bioengineering. Yet, in only a few thousand years, and with one carelessly designed instrument, our shoes, we have warped the pure anatomical form of human gait, obstructing its engineering efficiency, afflicting it with strains and stresses and denying it its natural grace of form and ease of movement head to foot.”
This too is much acceptable. But how about the difficulties faced while walking barefoot on uneven surfaces? Will walking on such surfaces won’t harm our supple feet? Should human beings stop wearing shoes for ever and walk barefoot? Hope such questions arise in your mind. Even though it’s quite a controversial topic to discuss about, you will get the answers for your questions in the next post. So stay tuned and post me any questions you have in mind, I do reply them to the earliest.
Source:New York Magazine
