What are correct toes and do they work?

correct toes:https://nwfootankle.com/correct-toes

We are quite familiar with them. Do they work? That is the question!

They are pretty bulky but that could be a good thing, for some though they are just too bulky we have found.
Some people are running in them……We think our friend Dr. Mark Cucuzzella does (naturalrunningcenter.com) .
We use them with clients to walk around the house barefoot and get used to engaging toes with a flat press (not gripping…like those silly, flexor dominant promoting towel scrunch exercises !)

So they MIGHT help someone retrain some muscles if used in this fashion but just wearing them does not produce magical results without some awareness use. 

Keep in mind……forcing something doesn’t make it so……… spreading the toes with an object such as these doesn’t make them automatically go where they are supposed to.

Most people need to relearn toe separation (actually abduction)…we do alot of that in our offices….and then learn to bring the whole toe flat to the ground with a good, firm toe press……..no grip/scrunch/hyperflexion.  The last thing we would ever want to do is overfacilitate the long toe flexors (flexor digitorum longus) because when we do, we inhibit other foot intrinsic muscles (ie. lumbricals).

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