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Are you looking to improve your performance? A study done in 2014 by Hashimoto et. al. found that strength training for the intrinsic muscles of the foot, resulted in reduced 50m dash times, significantly longer jumps and higher vertical jumps! This is why we implement a focus of foot core training in our "Fix Your Feet" Online workshop. This will significantly improve your foots reactive ability. Regardless if you are looking to improve performance in sports or not, who doesn't want a better performing foot? When hiking or doing whatever you love to do! Read the full article here. Source:...

Foot exercises are very effective in restoring and preventing almost all modern foot problems. Just as diet and exercise are the most effective methods of preventing and treating all lifestyle diseases.  Besides the extensive experience we have through follow-up gait analysis using plantar pressure plates, there is a lot of research showing significant improvements in foot function using exercises. One study done in 2015 showed that only by using the toe-splay exercise which we have in our workshops, participants were able to improve the angle of the great toe and increase muscles strength and size of the big toe muscle abductor...

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If you're suffering from forefoot pain, specifically at the ball of the foot, commonly associated with Metatarsalgia or Morton's Neuroma. You'll be interested to read a recent study that found a correlation between better toe-strength and function and reduced symptoms relating to forefoot pain. The improved strength of the toes reduced the experienced pain in subjects much more than insoles did. Our toes provide a great surface area for load distribution, so if you constantly cram your toes in narrow shoes, effecting their shape and strength, then all the pressure when standing and walking falls on the metatarsals which contact...