Kurz gesagt: Bevor es in meinen Schuhen "wie bei Hempels unterm Sofa" aussieht, dann doch lieber ganz offen etwas Straßenschwärze und ansonsten gesunde Füße.
Kai

Hallo Kai,
im Forum wie in Deinem Beitrag hier ist immer wieder die Rede von "gesunden Füßen durch Barfußlaufen".
Ein jeder Orthopäde warnt davor, längere Zeit unbeschuht
befestigte Straßen (geteert,betoniert u.ä.) zu benutzen.
Ganz klar, entstehen doch durch Fehlstellungen der Füße Rückenschmerzen, Wirbelsäulenschäden, Haltungsschäden, Gelenkschäden usw., bzw. werden bestehende noch verstärkt.
Das schlimmste:
Falls jemand seine gesunden Füße aus dem Kindesalter hinüber ins Erwachsenenalter gerettet haben sollte und Barfußlaufen auf befestigten Straßen praktiziert, erweist er sich damit einen Bärendienst.

Gruß
Siegbert

Lieber Siegbert
nur zur Info ein Bericht aus der Forschung von Amerikanischen Orthopäden...

Dr. Paul W. Brand

Barbara Platte interviewed Dr. Brand in 1976. Here is the account from the San Francisco Chronicle

What every kid seems to know instinctively -- that going barefoot is good for you -- has been confirmed by an orthopedist and rehabilitation specialist who has studied foot problems in various parts of the world.
"A high proportion of the world's population walks barefoot most of the time, and the average person who walks barefoot has much healthier feet than the average person who wears shoes, says Dr. Paul W. Brand, chief of the rehabilitation branch of the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Carville, La. and professor of surgery a Louisiana State University Medical School.
Dr. Brand conducted an orthopedic clinic in India for 18 years and has also treated orthopedic problems in Ethiopia and the United Kingdom. On the basis of these erfahrungen he suggests that maybe we in America should walk barefoot for at least part of each day.
Common foot problems in the United States include corns, bunions, hammer toes, athlete's foot and ingrown toenail - but none of these is a problem in countries in which most people go barefoot.
"Every one is a product of footwear. They are caused either by poorly designed or poorly fitted shoes, or in such conditions as athlete's foot, by the simple fact of wearing shoes that prevent free access of air between the toes," he says.
Shoe-wearers also receive mechanical stress from walking on the same part of the foot with each step, while the rough, uneven thrust of the ground is transmitted to a different part of the barefoot walker's foot with each step.
In shoes, Dr. Brand says, sensitivity, mobility, and intrinsic muscle strength of the feet are lost.
" The barefoot walker receives a continuous stream of information about the ground and about his own relationship to it, while a shod foot sleeps inside an unchanging environment. Sensations that are not used or listened to become decayed and atrophy. There is a sense of aliveness and joy which I experience walking barefoot that I never get in shoes," he says.
Such direct contact with the ground has a great deal to do with preventing fractures of the ankle from "turning the foot over" by stepping on a rock or edge of the pavement. In India Dr. Brand saw no ankle fractures except in those who wore shoes.
The reason for this, he says, is that a barefoot person has instant information about the situation relayed by the touch-sensitive nerves in the skin of the sole and gets the information in time to avoid putting his weight on the unstable foot.
The person wearing shoes may not get this information in time to remove his weight from the leg to prevent a fracture.
In the Olympic Games, Indian and Pakistani teams have won several gold medals in field hockey while playing barefoot, and have had an impressive injury-free record. They have now turned to shoes in international competition but only in self-defense against players who wear boots with cleats and studs, Dr. Brand notes.
Going barefoot seems to have an additional advantage in preventing arthritis of the hip. For persons of comparable age, this is seen more frequently in Westerners and Indians who wear shoes than in the barefoot population.

Ich hoffe damit dem Trugschluss der Verallgemeinerung etwas entgegen gewirkt zu haben.

Viel mehr dazu findet man auf der HOMEPAGE von PFB (Parents for Barfoot Childern)

Gruss Marc(CH)