Our stock is held in a Brisbane warehouse, and all orders placed prior to 12pm will be shipped out the same day. Our toe orthotic, Correct Toes, supports your foot’s arches in the exact manner nature intended, by placing your toes in their ideal natural alignment.Ĭorrect Toes are particularly effective in enabling optimal foot health when used in combination with a completely flat shoe surface (i.e., when they are worn in a shoe that possesses no heel elevation, toe spring, or motion control features). They may, initially, help gain a more natural foot position, but they do so artificially and the results are temporary. In fact, they violate the natural anatomy of your foot’s arches by artificially lifting them and placing material under them in a manner never seen in nature or in human-made structures, such as arch bridges. In other words, custom arch orthotics are not natural in any way. However, while orthotics can be useful for some people who may not be able to restore their own arch structures simply by using their foot naturally, In general, we DO NOT recommend wearing orthotics we instead recommend weaning yourself off orthotics-slowly and progressively- and introducing Correct Toes.Ĭorrect Toes are, by definition, an orthotic, though conventional custom orthotics are placed under your foot arch (instead of between your toes) and attempt to alter foot position by using an unnatural methodology (i.e., by propping up your foot arch). See here at Joe Nimble we believe our feet are one of the most important assets of our body and without proper movement and function your body cannot perform at its best.įast forward to today and Joe Nimble shoes are sold across the globe and we continue to save millions of toes from their future life of torture.YES, Most of our shoes have removable insoles that can be taken out when using orthotics. He said to himself “there has to be a better way” and he set out to hand make (we still hand stitch today) the first pair of shoes that would be designed around the shape of the foot. Joe Nimble came to be because my father decided one day more than 35 years ago (with zero shoe knowledge I might add) that modern shoes were being made wrong and were greatly hindering the natural movement of our feet and body as a whole. My name is Sebastian Baer and I, along with my mom, dad and brother are the founders of Joe Nimble shoes. Usually the lasts are rounded at the bottom and the volume of the foot is just pressed down (will eventually lead to pain and pressure points in the second / third / fourth metatarsal head). The volume of the foot is always the same, so when you squeeze the foot in a tighter environment, the volume has to go somewhere. The stabilizing and anchoring big toe position is therefore compromised and the big toe loses part of its functionality. Manufacturers usually do this for aesthetics (we are used to having symmetrically shaped shoes, pointed at the front) and for production efficiency reasons (asymmetrical shape is much more difficult to produce). Modern footwear squeezes the toes (thus telling our brain our big toe has no individual function, when the exact opposite is true), raises the heel (which shortens the achilles tendon over time and puts unnecessary weight on the front of the foot) and has toe spring (the big toe is lifted of the ground, supposedly to initiate the "rolling" process, but actually what this does is to tell our brain our big toe has no individual function (AGAIN!)). What do we mean by less functional: the big toe is the anchor and stabilizer of the foot (and therefore the whole body). Now we are not saying it does not have any benefits, but here´s the important point that when you direct your big toe even just 2mm in the wrong direction (to the inside), under load, it will tend more towards that direction and the foot automatically becomes less functional. There are some brands and shoes that claim to have some (compromised) toe freedom and advertise more space for your toes, but that is more marketing than actual reality. Many competitors tout the thin (ground feel) and flexibility (freedom of movement) which we do have (no glue to assemble the shoes so they can twist and turn as well as a 2mm Vibram Sole for accurate ground feel/feedback to the brain) but with all the advantages thin and flexible brings (especially for young, fit people), it lacks the key component to making the foot more functional: uncompromising toe freedom. Now I know we are biased to Joe Nimble but there are several reason Joe Nimble shoes stand above the rest. How are Joe Nimble shoes better than other so called "barefoot shoes"?
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