Since its inception, MBT has collaborated with healthcare professionals and scientists to expand on and improve health benefits associated with the product.
In modern life, most people don’t move enough. In fact the World Health Organization suggests upwards of 60% of the world’s population do not receive the recommended amount of physical activity to produce health benefits.
A sedentary lifestyle can lead to physical problems, such as lower back pain, joint stress and balance problems. Weakened muscles can exacerbate these conditions and muscle activation is generally not optimized when walking on hard, flat surfaces while wearing shoes that stabilize movement.
Our philosophy at MBT is to add more movement into everyday life in order to enhance muscle activation. In 1996, we discovered that the link between instability and movement and how it could be applied to footwear design.
MBT’s physiological footwear utilizes patented technology to create instability that can help increase movement and muscle activity throughout the body while standing and walking. To date, more than 40 studies indicate MBTs can help with certain health conditions and more than 20 different articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals about MBT footwear.
The MBT Academy is our central R&D facility, providing a forum for an ongoing dialog with international experts and researchers in the fields of biomechanics, clinical medicine and physiotherapy. In cooperation with numerous international universities the Academy is committed to testing, verifying and optimizing the effects of MBT footwear on the human body.