Are you facing any of following leg problems?
If sole pads, medications and other treatments don't seems to work well, the problem may be caused by your shoe and the way you walk. Give me 5 minutes to share what could exactly went wrong.
The design of most walking shoe focuses on functionality but ignore the nature of our feet. In particular, the design of the thick cushioning sole affects our posture and landing method when we walk, indirectly promoting heel landing on our steps, which recoil force from the ground will be absorbed by the our heel, to the joints of ankle, knee and all the way to our hip .
As the thick cushioning sole absorbs part of the recoil, we will not feel these small impacts, but if you walk 5,000 steps a day, it is 5,000 repetitive small impacts that slowly wear out your joints. 
Vibram Fivefingers : The Barefoot Footwear
The concept is to imitate bare feet. The insole is flat without cushioning, couple with a thin outsole that just serves as protection to footbed. Without the cushioning, most of the recoil force from the ground will be felt by our feet, which our body will react to it by taking lighter steps and gradually adjust our landing from heel to forefoot.
Such transition decreases recoil force, and direct them to be absorbed by muscles instead of joints.
Here's a simple experiment to feel it for yourself
- First, go barefoot and walk/run forward for a short distance, pay attention to which part of your foot lands and posture of your leg.
- Then walk/run backwards, pay attention to the same aspects.
Do you notice when walking forward, the heel first touches the ground, while when walking backward, the forefoot first touches the ground.
This happens due to long period of misleading commercial that shows heel landing (the feet is infront of our upperbody during landing) is the norm. But shoe commercials are rarely about walking backwards, so our bodies still retain their primal posture.
The toe pockets design allows our toes to do their job fully in assisting stability in various movement, thus reducing risk of twisting our feet or falling.
Our users include sports enthusiasts, fitness instructors, and chiropractors' patients etc. Following are some customer feedbacks we received:
"I'm flat footed and used to have pain in running, after begin running in fivefingers for two months, arches began to develop and I'm pain free." A customer bought it for his mom in her 60s. "After using it for three months, she said her knee pain was reduced by 70% and actively walks more." "After using it for a while, I found that my leg are stronger."If you would would like to heal leg pain the natural way, talk to us via link below:
Founded in Italy in 1937, Vibram designs functional soles for many high-end series of famous brands eg. Timberland, Northface, New Balance, etc.Fivefingers is our inhouse brand. All soles have undergone rigorous tests and provides wear-resistant and anti-skid functions to serve different activities.