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“The question isn’t how to transition kids to minimalist shoes it’s why should they ever be in footwear that bends the foot out of its normal position to begin with?” “The bones in kids’ feet are malleable, so if shoes put tension on those bones that’s not aligned with where they want to go, the bones will assume that direction,” he said. It’s just something natural.”Īccording to Mark Cucuzzella, MD, a professor of family medicine at West Virginia University in Morgantown who blogs about the issue, the decision is crucial to children’s development and future capabilities. “All the kids in South Africa run barefoot, even today. “For me, running barefoot was a lifestyle, not an option,” she said. When LER spoke to former Olympian Zola Budd Pieterse for an earlier article, she said one reason she could train and compete barefoot so easily was that she’d grown up that way in South Africa (see “ The truth about barefoot running: It’s complicated,” page 20, November 2010). Moreover, in the past few years, researchers have finally begun to clarify the biomechanical effects of footwear and running in kids. Nevertheless, many of those opinions come from credible sources who take a commonsense approach based on clinical observation and experience. Much has been written about adults and barefoot running, including in LER, 1,2 but little research has focused on child and adolescent populations, so opinions are at least as plentiful as facts. There is, however, a separate discussion underway regarding barefoot and minimally shod running in children. The most public battles about barefoot running and minimalist footwear have been fought over their use by adult athletes and the clinicians who treat them.
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