Stop the Lace

If you got to this page, it probably means you’ve seen our public safety campaign to reduce lower back pain by banning lace-up shoes nationwide. If this seems a little extreme… it’s because it is (yup, the whole thing was satire).

Yet we see this mentality over and over in our office. “I just slept wrong” or “I moved a box last Saturday with poor posture” or “I stepped off a curb weird” cannot explain the magnitude of problems we see caused by years of neglect. Most problems with the spine do not develop overnight; they develop over time. Years of minor problems accumulate in the background until the “straw that broke the camel’s back” presents itself… and while it might look like your shoes on a Tuesday morning, the shoes were never the problem. They were merely the last one.

Now go buy yourself a pair of crocs and spread the word. 🙂