New shoes hurting joints

Do not rush to dispose of old sneakers and buy a super-modern sports shoes with some three-layer soles and specially developed system of support for the foot. Scientists have found that for our health, "hi-tech" shoes are not as useful as it is commonly believed. It is better, in general, to run barefoot.

The fact is that the modern "fancy" sports shoes designed so that the owner at jogging   primarily down to the ground the heel, and then the whole foot. Meanwhile, in the classic shoe we, on the contrary, we rely when running at the front of the foot. So by relying on the heel there is an additional load on the joint, which can lead to injury Who tend to avoid professional coaches.

Scientists have found that the most useful thing to run without any shoes or sneakers with minimal soles. In this case, we rely on ball of foot That reduces harmful to joints pressure to almost zero. These data were published in the journal Nature.

"Many people today believe that run barefoot   This kind of savagery, archaic and dangerous to the health of the practice - said Professor Daniel Lieberman of Harvard University, a co-author of the study. - In fact, nothing of the kind. In barefoot running   many benefits if you are certainly not satisfied with his on broken bricks or sharp stones. You can safely run at the solid surface, and do not experience any discomfort, you can believe me. But if you think that barefoot running   dangerous (you can run into a piece of glass or any sharp protrusion), simply choose sports shoes with thin soles. It recreates the most useful effect, which happens when running barefoot.

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