(Part 2) Top products from r/barefoot

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We found 2 product mentions on r/barefoot. We ranked the 22 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.

21. The Ultimate Guide to Strong Healthy Feet: Permanently fix flat feet, bunions, neuromas, chronic joint pain, hammertoes, sesamoiditis, toe crowding, hallux limitus and plantar fasciitis

Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
The Ultimate Guide to Strong Healthy Feet: Permanently fix flat feet, bunions, neuromas, chronic joint pain, hammertoes, sesamoiditis, toe crowding, hallux limitus and plantar fasciitisShow Reddit reviews

22. Running: Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology in Practice

Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
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u/GoNorthYoungMan · 1 pointr/barefoot

How about extra long holds?

I had serious issues here while recovering from injury, also could not move my knee past my toes, also had a feel of binding pressure on the talus - now I've got no issues. The fix for me was long and slow stretches, in both directions (pulling the toes towards the shin, and pushing the toe away). There are so many ways to stretch your calves, make sure you hit em all.

The primary thing that helped was standing on a stair or curb, and dropping your heel down until it starts to stretch - and holding for literally 5 minutes, then walking around and doing it twice more. Morning and evening. I found that for best results I had to be warmed up, and wearing shoes that had a sole that wasn't just floppy, as it just makes your foot bend instead of really getting into the calf stretch itself. Keep your posture good, and your hips squared up. Took me about a week to taper into it and really max out my stretch comfortably, then I'd say it was a couple months of doing it several times a week to really get a good benefit.

Can you point your toe sufficiently? I know its the opposite direction, but I found toe pointers critical to my efforts here. Lay on your back, one knee bent, and straighten the other leg and lift it to knee height - squeezing your quad, lifting your kneecap, and pointing your toe as far straight out as comfortable. Then keeping your foot/leg locked, move the foot in the shape of the alphabet, A, B, C etc to Z, and then switch legs. The strength doesn't sound like it would be hard for you, but maybe some benefit to the motion while your toe is pointed? For me, it felt like gaining space there helped when I would move it in the other direction.

Once I got those going, I would put a knee on a pad, other foot would have toes against the wall, and stretch that knee towards the wall - again, 5 minutes hold time. 3 sets, 2x day.

After those started to have some movement, then I worked on the other 10 variations of calf stretches, often in long holds, and had great results. Its a bit more than just "stretching" if you are doing lots of varieties, and for long holds. It took many months though, but I felt that long holds were something that helped break out from where I was.

On side note, this book covers just about everything I found helpful in many years of foot recovery - if you are looking to improve foot health in any way, I can't recommend it enough:

https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-Strong-Healthy-Feet/dp/151872812X

u/skullmande · 10 pointsr/barefoot

Here are some medical studies that I have read over the last two years, when I started to be interested on minimalism. Not specially related to flat foot, but for sure you will find lots of scientific evidences on them:

scientific articles