Internationally renown lecturer and celebrity chiropractic physician Dr. James Stoxen DC, also known as the Barefoot Running Doctor, will focus on detailing how footwear accelerates the aging process when he addresses the Academia Americana De Medicina Anti-Envejecimiento, Segundo Congreso A4M Mexico at Congress Unit Medical Center Siglo XXI in Mexico City (Sept 4-6)
Over 20 years, during the course of developing the Stoxen Human Spring Approach™ -- a treatment and training regime to rectify and prevent musculoskeletal damage and restore peak biomechanic performance -- Dr. Stoxen has been one of the most vocal global advocates of the benefits of barefoot exercise namely barefoot running.
Recent studies, including work into the biomechanics of foot strikes at Harvard University's Skeletal Biology Lab, has added further weight to Dr. Stoxen's extensively tested contention that the daily restriction of footwear as a binding device weakens the supportive structures of the foot often triggering a domino effect in our body that has a devastating impact.
Based on the laws of physics & engineering and served with a healthy portion of common sense, Dr. Stoxen has, to much acclaim, outlined his Human Spring Theory to close to 50,000 medical physicians and scientists at ACME medical conferences in recent years, including the Royal College of Physicians in London, the SENS Conference in Cambridge, England and the International Bangkok Congress on Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine (BCAARM).
Put simply, Dr. Stoxen views the body as giant spring. At its foundation is the spring in the arch of foot. Should that lock, as is common, the rest of the body (the spring system) is hauled out of alignment, leading to abnormalities in movement, strain on muscles, joints and bones and wear and tear that promotes inflammation, the single biggest accelerant in aging.
Footwear, as a binding device, restricts motion and promotes rather than prevents locking of the spring mechanism.
From Barefoot to Bedridden (The Current Standard of Care)
Unfortunately, for millions, a lifetime of biomechanic evolution follows this path: barefoot play and running as a youth, to all-day shoes as teens and adults, then motion control footwear and/or orthotics when the spring suspension system weakens and the human spring locks. Next orthopedic shoes are medically necessary to walk pain free; preceding a cane, a walker and quite often a wheelchair and/or the prospect of being bedridden.
The current standard of care and the bulk of fitness and health instruction support perpetuate this downward spiral. This approach focuses on reversing it.
Dr Stoxen was one of the first doctors to lecture at an ACME accredited medical conference on barefoot running and in June, 2010, at age 48, opted to take up running -- sans shoes -- to demonstrate its long-term benefits running 350 miles in 2010 on concrete surfaces,
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