Kids: Healthy feet – healthy life

Research project on behalf of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Health and Women and the Healthy Austria Fund.

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

The world’s first publication on the harmfulness of short children’s shoes:
Increased hallux angle in children and its association with insufficient length of footwear: A community based cross-sectional study (BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2009, 10: 159)

Also in Finland: children wear shoes that are too short

Children in shoes that are too short (Pediatrics & Podiatry Volume 50, 3, June 2015)

New study: Go barefoot as often as possible

Hallux valgus in pre-school-aged children: the effects of too-short shoes on the hallux angle and the effects of going barefoot on podiatric health

Footwear Science, Volume 13, 2021 issue 1