There’s good reason podiatrists are against barefoot shoes. Its because barefoot shoes do the most good to sustainably strengthen your feet in a functional manner, and the heightened ground-feel improves the sensory functions in the feet, which in turn, improves motor performance, impact-protective adaptations, functional recovery and learning! Bottom line, there are major clinical advantages to barefoot shoes, given the pronounced effects they have on strengthening your feet. A strong foot is a healthy foot and a healthy foot does not need a podiatrist selling you orthotics. Podiatrists need your feet to be perpetually weak and achy to make money, and this is why barefoot shoes is a major threat to their hazardous practice. Read more here about why barefoot shoes is the antidote for sore, feeble feet.
