1. In 1993, The American Journal of Sport medicine report that from a group of Dutch athletes that runners who stretched were 33 percent more likely to get hurt.

2. The increased technology in motion control and cushion do not decrease the aliments affect the foot, says, Dr. Stephen Pribut, President of American Academy of Podiatric Sports medicine.

3. The Sports shoe industry is a $20 billion industry.

4. Dr. Craig Richards does not believe that running shoes make you less prone to injury. Runners wearing the top-of-the-line shoes were 123 percent more likely to get injured.

5. Wearers of expensive shoes are promoted that the shoe prevents injury. However, runners that wear inexpensive shoes are less likely to have injury, such as, Achilles problems or planter fasciitis.

6. Arthur Newton sees no reason to replace his thin rubber sneakers until he’d put at least four thousand miles on them.

7. Thin sole shoes build foot muscles and cut down foot injuries.

8. On a hard surface, your feet briefly unlearn the habits they picked up and shift to self-defense mode. You find yourself landing on the outside edge of your foot, then gently rolling from little toe over to big until your foot is flat. Pronation is a shock absorbing motion that allows your arch to compress. Landing on your heel causes overpronation and is common with over cushion heels. Overpronation leads to knee injury.

9. Your foot’s centerpiece is the arch, the greatest weight bearing design ever created. The arch gets stronger under stress. The foot arch has a high-tensile web of twenty six bones, thirty three joints, twelve rubbery tendons, and eighteen muscles, all stretching and flexing like an earthquake-resistant suspension bridge.

10. Dr. Hartman believe putting your feet in modern shoes lead to muscular atrophy, as high as 60 percent. In the shoe, tendons stiffen and muscles shrivel. Feet live for a fight and thrive under pressure.

11. In 1976, Paul Brand observed that countries where the people did not wear shoes there were lower incidence of corns, bunions, hammer toes, flat feet, and fallen arches.

12. Nike doesn’t earn $17 billion a year by letting Barefoot Teds of the world set trends.