Following my recent discussions with Irene Davis at the Australasian Podiatry Conference and discussion with delegates about her presentations, I have decided that there really is no barefoot running debate or controversy, or at least in the way that the debate has been framed.
The debate is not really about if barefoot running or activity is good or bad, which is the way the barefoot community are framing the debate. For example, there was a post on Twitter a while back that said something like, ‘Nike and Podiatrists must be shaking in their boots at the thought of barefoot running’. The implication being that barefoot running was going to put Nike and Podiatry out of business. How often do you read such nonsensical comments that Podiatrists are opposed to barefoot activity as they would lose so much business? Foot orthotics for runners probably make up less than 0.01% of what Podiatrists do, so they clearly showing their ignorance about what podiatry is.
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