#vivowildkids

#Repost @vivobarefoot.kids with @get_repost ・・・ We’ve said it before, and we’re sure we’ll say it again: at VivoKids we believe we need to ditch chairs and GET KIDS MOVING! It’s what their bodies AND THEIR BRAINS need. • “If your foot gets stiff, there’s no need for the muscles to do anything because the joints don’t move. Stiff, weak feet, we’ve all heard the complaints, and the solution we’re being given is to provide more support to an area that’s stiff and weak,“ says Nick St Louis, one of the founders of The Foot Collective physiotherapists. "Which would be like you coming to me with neck pain and me putting you in a neck brace for the rest of your life. They abide by the same physiological principles, the foot and the neck: they’re both dynamic body parts that react to what we expose them to; so give them less support, use the muscles more, mobilise those tight joints and really the simplicity of restoring feet is so beautiful because it’s very simple. Just going BAREFOOT will automatically strengthen your feet.” Photo credit: @naturalmovement • #vivowildkids #vivobarefoot #livebarefoot #wildkids#freerangekids #kidsshoes #kidsbarefoot #barefootshoes #freethekids #movemore #naturalmovement #kidsbarefoot #happyfeet #raisingchildren (at Gold Coast, Queensland) https://www.instagram.com/p/BttswTkl_Wn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ds56baf9mb8s

#Repost @vivobarefoot.kids with @get_repost ・・・ USE IT OR LOSE IT – ARE WE MAKING OUR BODIES ATROPHY? 😱 Roger Kneebone, professor of surgical education at London’s Imperial College, says young medical students spend so much time on screens they lack the dexterity needed to stitch up patients. ”Students get high exam grades but lack tactile general knowledge,“ he said at an event for the Edge Foundation, which pushes for creativity in UK school’s curriculum. ”Before you could assume young people could do practical things - cutting things out, making things – that’s no longer the case.” 🤔 If we don’t use our bodies, we lose its skills. So what does a lifetime of normal shoes do to our feet? Like wearing a cast, normal shoes are stiff, narrow and rigid: they can wreck the form and function of feet as they grow. 😬 And then we see sedentary adulthoods always on chairs and screens, complaining of back and foot pain. Keep feet bare. 🦶🏼 Our feet are awesome evolutionary gifts of biomechanical engineering – let’s keep them that way. ✨ #vivobarefoot #vivowildkids #livebarefoot #letthemexplore #thefootcollective #naturalmovement #wildkids #sensoryfeedback #raisingchildren #kidsshoes (at Gold Coast, Queensland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq0VhZmg_HV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16p8bxl8g71ie