Toe spacers are a useful tool for anyone whose feet spend a great deal of time scrunched inside shoes.
While they aren’t a miracle cure for major foot problems, toe spacers can help stretch out and realign toes that are beginning an inward compression. They can prevent toes from drifting out of order and offer recovery after wearing constricting shoes. And they can hold toes in the correct position for patients doing rehabilitation to prevent or recover after surgery.
Toes that are straight, spread, and flat are normal for foot physiology but those traits often vanish in feet constantly in shoes that are narrow, rigid, overly structured, or have an incline. Toes may not seem like that big of a deal, but they’re connected to the body’s muscular, nervous, and circulatory systems. They constantly read and respond to sensory information that is foundational to the body’s operation….