Professor Anthony Redmond
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first heard Apr 2026
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It's called the toe box, yes.
We tend to be conditioned that footwear is supposed to be supporting and it's supposed to have all these characteristics.
Well, in actual fact, if you have fairly normal feet, your footwear is mainly for thermal protection and for protection from things on the ground.
You don't need your feet to be...
sort of held in the correct posture.
If everything's working pretty well, then footwear's a minor consideration, unless it's the worst sort of footwear, like high heels or shoes with a tight toe box.
Yep, and stops your feet getting wet, for the most part, if you have normal feet.
Like most features in the human body, if we look at feet, we've talked about whether you have a high arch or a low arch.
Most people will have something fairly normal in the middle.
So I don't know how familiar people with the idea of a normal distribution curve.
But most people will have a normal foot with a bit of an arch and everything working mechanically fairly soundly.
Some people will have a much flatter foot posture.
So they'll be towards the end of the normal distribution curve.
And some people will have a much higher arch.
and these are just some normal variations and when you start to get into that there are characteristics in your footwear which you can start to emphasize to offset not being right in the middle of the normal distribution curve we'll take the high arch end of the normal distribution curve your foot type is less well adapted to do the shock absorbing bit and it's going to emphasize much more the rigid energy preserving bit just for normal day-to-day function you'll probably find that if you have a fairly high arch foot
you'll prefer shoes that'll just be more comfortable if they have a bit more cushioning, a bit more padding, because you're already doing the rigidity bit.
You don't need that from the footwear, but you probably do need the assistance with the absorbing shock heel strike.
Conversely, if you're at the other end of the normal distribution, still normal, but just with that tendency towards having a flatter foot,
then you're probably going to be perfectly good at the shock absorbency bit, but you might need a bit of assistance with the controlling the heel and retaining energy bit of the gait cycle.
So in people with a flatter foot, if you're buying running shoes, for instance, they will tend to advocate a shoe with a stronger heel counter or wedging or arch support or whatever.
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