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2025 · Systematic review + meta-analysis

Foot-core exercise, minimalist footwear, and foot capacity

PromisingSource checked · 19 Aug 2026
PLAIN-LANGUAGE RESULT

The review examined changes in foot muscle size, strength, and biomechanics from exercise and minimalist-footwear interventions.

This summary is educational. It does not tell you whether a particular intervention is right for your symptoms or circumstances.

WHY IT MATTERS

How this record informs FlatStrong.

Provides broader foot-capacity context while keeping exercise and footwear transitions separate and gradual.

LIMITATIONS

What this record cannot settle.

Participants, interventions, and biomechanical outcomes varied; capacity changes do not automatically mean symptom improvement.

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