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Experts says flimsy footwear does your feet no favors

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Many podiatrists and chiropractors have been warning patients for years about the harm they were doing to their feet and lower legs by wearing flimsy footwear. Warnings that were once based on anecdotes, though, now have more scientific evidence to support them.

At least one key researcher's interest in studying the effects of wearing flip-flops and similar footwear was fueled by their growing popularity on college campuses."They're not made to walk around in all day," said Justin Shroyer, who was working on his graduate degree at the University of Auburn at the time. "They're for wearing to the beach so you don't have to walk on the hot blazing pavement between your car and the sand."

Under the guidance of a senior professor, Shroyer filmed 56 selected students as they walked across a platform designed to record the pressure exerted by their feet. He randomly assigned the students to either wear sneakers or flip-flops for at least a day before and on the day of the test. Last year, they repeated the protocol with the other type of footwear.

The videotape and pressure data showed huge differences in the way the students walked, depending on how they were shod. Flip-flops significantly shortened their stride and how long their feet were in contact with the ground compared with sneakers. Further, flip-flops tended to reduce how much the top part of the swinging foot flicks up toward the shin.