So if building foot strength is your aim, barefoot footwear could help. Living barefoot means using the muscles and tendons in your feet, including your arches, more. How you walk (and run) has a big influence on foot strength This is more likely to weaken the muscles, not strengthen them. The problem with orthotic insoles is that they restrict movement, immobilising arch muscles. And while we’re all built differently, having flat feet doesn’t mean forgoing strong feet. Strong feet are less likely to experience pain or restricted movement.
What matters isn’t arch height, but arch strength But we don’t think this is necessarily true, and not just because we’re biased! (We also have a blog on the opposite issue: high arches.) Flatfoot is a common, typically painless condition, and can result from genetics, injury, footwear or other lifestyle factors.īecause conventional podiatry (the branch of medicine devoted to feet) often suggests insoles to ‘support’ flat arches, many people with flat, or flat-ish, feet think barefoot footwear isn’t for them. What the evidence says about barefoot footwear and flat feetĪ foot is considered ‘flat’ when its inside arch is flat rather than arched, meaning the whole sole touches the floor when standing.To show why people with flat feet can absolutely live barefoot, in this blog we explain: We often get asked about whether barefoot footwear is suitable for flat feet.
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