Promoting Podiatric Health in Children through Shoe Education

鞋子在帮助所有人保持直立姿势方面起着重要的作用，在发育阶段，童鞋在帮助正确的身体发育和运动方面尤其重要。然而，日本人穿鞋的历史相对较短，之前的研究表明他们对鞋子的功能缺乏了解。这一问题引起了一些教育工作者和医生的关注，但不幸的是，没有采取任何措施来纠正普通人群中由此产生的问题。我们的研究是一个跨学科的项目，旨在通过对儿童本身、他们的父母和从日托到高中的各种教师进行“鞋子教育”，确保日本儿童的足部健康和生理正确发展。在全国范围内，我们努力克服日本人缺乏正确使用鞋子的知识，包括日托专业人员、初中和高中教师、服装学者、人体工程学专家、生物力学研究人员、骨科医生、儿科医生和制鞋行业的成员。我们研究了关于鞋子选择、尺码测量和穿鞋本身的各种教学方法的有效性。

Shoes play an important role in supporting an upright stance for all humans, and children's shoes especially are crucial in aiding correct physical development and movement during developmental years. However, Japanese have a relatively short history of shoe-wearing, and previous research has shown their lack of knowledge about shoe functionality. The issue has been of concern to some educators and doctors, but unfortunately no measures have been taken to rectify resulting problems in the general population. Our research is an interdisciplinary project aimed at ensuring the podiatric health and physiologically correct development of Japanese children by engaging in "shoe education" for children themselves, their parents, and teachers of all kinds from daycare through high-school. Enacted on a nationwide scale, our efforts to overcome Japanese lack of knowledge about correct shoe use include daycare professionals, junior-high and high-school teachers, apparel scholars, ergonomics specialists, biomechanics researchers, orthopedists, pediatricians, and members of the shoe industry. We studied the effectiveness of various pedagogical methodologies about the topics of shoe selection, size measurement, and shoe-wearing itself.