Although many places require shoes to be worn upon entry, it’s possible that some days you have the chance to go barefoot for most or all of the day. Is it a good idea to go barefoot for extended stretches, or could all this time without shoes actually increase our risk of an injury? In […]
Can Going Barefoot While Working From Home Hurt Your Feet?
If you are one of the tens of millions of Americans who have adjusted to a partial or full work-from-home schedule amid the COVID-19 pandemic, there are probably a number of things you’re still trying to get used to. It may be refreshing to not need to don a suit and tie or your work […]
Going Barefoot Helps Your Feet Develop Natural Padding Protection
New research out of Harvard University found that individuals who rarely or never wore shoes tended to have thicker natural calluses on the bottom of their feet, and this padding helps to provide extra protection without reducing the foot’s ability to sense the ground underneath them, unlike cushioned shoes. Those were the findings of a […]
Regularly Barefoot Kids Have Better Motor Skills
A new study published in Frontiers in Pediatrics found that children who are habitually barefoot are more likely to have better motor skills than children who regularly wear shoes. For their study, researchers recruited 810 school children from 22 primary and secondary schools from either Northern Germany or Western South Africa. Researchers believed that being habitually […]
5 Tips For Protecting Your Bare Feet
The warm temperatures are here, and that means a lot of people will soon be ditching their closed shoes and going with open-toed options or even going barefoot when they’re out and about. Going barefoot can protect against rashes or infections caused by sweat and wet socks, but you also are more susceptible to cuts […]