Here’s the guy’s citations if anyone wants a look. I’m not educated enough in this field to assess quality but if there happens to be a podiatrist around…
I started getting a little iffy when he expanded from foot problems to making grand claims about the rest of the body, these will take quite some time to review.
I’m in my 40s, and honestly have never heard/thought of this as a medical issue. Yes I made jokes about shoes not being foot-shaped, but it stopped there.
I realize I only watched this one video - but this seems both so obvious AND easy to fix, that I wonder why the hell we’re still essentially binding our feet.
Now I feel like I should never wear shoes again!
or buy wide shoes, or buy a size bigger to have more room. some of those xrays of a foot crammed into a shoe just shows that nobody is telling people how a shoe should fit anymore. the person at Shoe Carnival just rings you out, do they have knowledge on how a shoe should fit? i doubt it.
I have narrow feet at the middle, idk what shoe I’m supposed to buy because anything that’s wide at the toe is usually too wide midfoot and results in feeling like my shoes are going to role around my feet no matter how I tie them.
Also what shoe are you supposed to buy if you’re running on road or sidewalk? Those barefoot shoes are too thin soled IMO, unless you run on dirt paths
I guess my feet aren’t in too bad of shape since I can wiggle my toes sideway and grab stuff with my bigtoe and middle toe
I have a similar thing, and I have found that certain shoes with the right lacing pattern work well. Basically, buy something with a big toe-box, but most of the lacing concentrated on the center of the foot so that you can narrow it by lacing it tight. I find that certain Xero shoes, and most iterations of Merrell Trail Gloves work well for this.
Crocs baby, Crocs.
