{"id":727827,"date":"2026-08-05T02:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727827\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T02:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:54:08","slug":"from-flip-flops-to-fishermans-sandals-are-your-summer-sandals-killing-your-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727827\/","title":{"rendered":"From flip flops to fisherman&#8217;s sandals: Are your summer sandals killing your feet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In terms of arch support and joint support, it&#8217;s not the best style, but people are investing a bit more, getting their flip-flops customised, because it&#8217;s something that is just so easy to wear,&#8221; Baidoo says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Podiatrist Dr Helen Branthwaite, who is also chief clinical adviser at the Royal College of Podiatry, says it&#8217;s &#8220;not accurate&#8221; to say flip-flops are bad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The problem comes if you go straight from wearing a very structured shoe to wearing flip-flops a lot, she explains. It means your foot is under more strain than normal, which makes you more prone to injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The foot does start to change shape and tends to splay a little bit over time,&#8221; says Branthwaite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A good analogy is if you were to wear a corset all the time and then took the corset off, everything would sort of all hang out, so to speak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So what are the stylish and comfortable alternatives?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;In terms of arch support and joint support, it&#8217;s not the best style, but people are investing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-727827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}