Shoes ruined the connective tissue in your feet. It’s the unfortunate way most people end up needing orthotics.
Everyone reading: start stretching and strengthening your feet, go barefoot where you can. Foot pain affects everything above it and you don’t want to be the person who can’t walk 100ft without their special shoes (which themselves are amazing since they can actually treat these issues at all, before anyone thinks I’m just anti-everything).
It’s important to learn about other things that can cause it like pronation before you just start going barefoot though as that can accelerate damage, I wish I knew that before
Shoes ruined the connective tissue in your feet. It’s the unfortunate way most people end up needing orthotics.
Everyone reading: start stretching and strengthening your feet, go barefoot where you can. Foot pain affects everything above it and you don’t want to be the person who can’t walk 100ft without their special shoes (which themselves are amazing since they can actually treat these issues at all, before anyone thinks I’m just anti-everything).
It’s important to learn about other things that can cause it like pronation before you just start going barefoot though as that can accelerate damage, I wish I knew that before