Toe Spacers
Benefits of Toe Spacers
Toe Spacers--What is it?
There has been a recent increase in demand for products that correct the damage done by conventional shoes on the human foot. Conventional shoes have narrowed our toes, caused bunions, weakened our feet, and diminished our balance. People are finally starting to see the damage conventional shoes have done to us over the past 500 years. It’s time we start being proactive to counteract these mistakes and regain our natural foot shape with toe spacers or toe spreaders.
Toe spacers are elastic but firm footwear that go between your toes. They are meant to slowly shift your foot back to its natural position. The main difference will be spreading your big toe and pinky toe out. It may be uncomfortable or even cause some pain at first. If that is the case for you, start slow. Wear it for 10 minutes, then 30, then an hour, all the way until you can wear them overnight.
Why Do You Need Toe Spacers...
What are the Benefits of Toe Spacers?
Avoid Deformities
Conventional shoes are causing your feet to look like shoes instead of making the shoes look like feet. They take your big toe and pinky toe and squeeze them inward to make a point. This is now how feet are supposed to look. We can prove this by looking at babies’ feet and shoeless tribe members’ feet. Their toes are spread out and they have stiff arches. Their feet are very flexible as well.
Nowadays we have unaligned feet with our toes squeezed together and weak or even no arches. If you look at your foot and push into the top of your foot to find the bone; these are called metatarsals. Now run your finger down each of your metatarsals. Are they a straight line all the way through the toe? If not, your foot is deformed and in need of repair. Putting spacers in between your toes for prolonged periods of time would effectively prevent or reverse the damage done by conventional shoes.
Increase Foot Strength and Stability
If you look at the muscle that controls your big toe, when your big toe flares out the muscle is in a straight line and fully functional. This muscle is also a big part of the arch of your foot. When your big toe is bent inwards, the muscle is out of line and loses most of its function.
You now have way less control over your big toe and the arch of your foot is dramatically weakened. Therefore, forcing a spacer between your toes to widen the big toe and pinky toe will realign these muscles. This will allow you to have more control and strength in your toes and a more stable arch.
Restore Circulation
There are arteries that run underneath your toe muscles. Then those muscles are bent inwards, they put pressure on these arteries. When enough pressure is built up on these arteries, blood flow is drastically reduced. This can lead to a ton of issues. There already is limited blood flow to the feet because they’re so far away from the heart, so the last thing we want to do is decrease it even more.
The way cells, muscles, bones, and everything in the body heals is by pulling nutrients and materials from the blood. So if you have limited blood flow and scrape your foot, the healing process will be greatly extended increasing your chances of infection. A broken bone usually takes about 6-8 weeks. With limited blood flow, the time it takes to heal could double! That’s 3-4 months of not being able to use your foot all because you have improper blood flow to your feet.
Prevents Upstream Damage
Everything starts from your base, your feet. If your feet are unaligned, then your ankles will be too, then your knees, then your hips, then your back, then your neck. There are many cases of people solving neck issues by fixing the arches of their feet. When you walk, you create tension with your muscles and pressure from the ground. This tension and pressure usually is placed evenly on all your joints, but when your arches are unstable the pressure has to move up. It could go anywhere depending on your anatomy.
If you’re lucky, it will stay in your foot and you can easily diagnose and fix it. A lot of the time it goes to people’s hips and lower back which could explain the fact that 80% of everyone in the United States has experienced lower back pain at some point in their life. Toe spacers won’t be an immediate solution, but it’s a step in the right direction.
Xero Shoes
Do your feet feel better at the end of the day than they did at the beginning? If not, it’s because your shoes aren’t letting your feet do what’s NATURAL. One quarter of the bones and joints in your entire body are in your feet. You have more nerve endings in your soles than anywhere but your fingertips and lips.
This means your feet are meant to bend, to move, to flex, and feel the world. Comfort and performance come from letting your feet do what they’re meant to do, naturally.
Xero Shoes let them do that with what we call “3 Pillars of Natural”:
- Natural FIT — wide toe boxes let your toes spread and relax. A non-elevated (zero-drop) heel for proper posture.
- Natural MOTION — super flexible to let your feet bend and move naturally. Low-to-the-ground for balance and agility.
- Natural FEEL — the patented FeelTrue® soles give you just-right protection while still giving the ground feedback your brain needs for efficient, natural movement.
Plus they’re affordable, and so durable that they have a 5,000 mile sole warranty.
Softstar Toe Spacers
Each box of Correct Toes contains two toe spacers. Correct Toes toe spacers are best used with wide toe box shoes, including almost all Softstar styles.
- Carefully designed toe dividers place each toe in the correct position relative to the ground and to each other.
- Designed to improve strength and flexibility of the toes.
- Suitable for weight-bearing activities like yoga and running to promote strength and balance.
- Constructed of medical-grade silicone to be flexible, comfortable and durable.
- May provide better balance in athletes, Parkinson’s patients, and the elderly.
- Clinical studies using Correct Toes show decreased injury rates in athletes and increased performance (especially walkers and runners).
- Correct Toes come with a 30-day trial guarantee and 90-day materials warranty.
- These in-shoe toe spacers include a manual for usage and customizations.
- FREE SHIPPING to USA.
- Free international shipping when ordered with a shoe.
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