Toes & Foot Health
Toes & Foot Health
This article discusses toes and foot health and includes the following topics: What makes for healthy toes, the role of toes in activity, and the most common toe problems, such as bunions, hammertoes, hallux limitus, crooked toes, ingrown toenails, and more. Read on to learn more about toes and foot health..
Healthy toes are straight, evenly spaced, and free of the many problems that plague so many people in shod, or shoe-wearing, populations. Most conventional footwear, including running shoes, possesses tapering toe boxes that force the toes into a wedge-like position. This design characteristic, along with heel elevation and toe spring, causes many foot problems and toe deformities over time. Unshod populations, or groups of people who go barefoot or wear open-toe sandals or other minimalist footwear, have some of the healthiest toes.
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