BARESOLE™ by Frampton Ellis™
In medical science the human ankle is well-known to be highly unstable and often sprained. The ankle is extremely unstable in any shoe tilted into a typical ankle spraining position. So it was a major scientific discovery and incredibly shocking to uncover the real truth: the same ankle that is unstable in a shoe is naturally stable when barefoot! Obviously, then, shoes are unstable, not the ankle. Besides this conclusive photographic proof, anyone can easily prove it with their own shoes (but only with safe support).
The effect of this previously invisible defect is astonishing. It likely causes many or most of the serious falls that resulted in $151 billion in medical care costs due to 6,570,000 ER visits, 1,700,000 hospitalizations and 47,000 fall deaths in 2022 in the U.S.
To put this in context, 41,000 traffic deaths occurred in 2023 in the U.S.
A first step has already been taken. A new experimental test prototype, the stable BARESOLE by Frampton Ellis™, has been designed to have safe lateral stability like the barefoot. It has proven successful in testing so simple it can be verified by anyone.
Slides and basketball shoes in all sizes are available now.
Much better than existing footwear, it is also uniquely comfortable, the BARESOLE™ by Frampton Ellis™ becomes almost invisible to the wearer. Factory-built, using only existing footwear technologies that are free and open, its design is not covered by utility patents.
The experimental test prototype BARESOLE™ by Frampton Ellis™ incorporated in the FRAMPTON ELLIS™ slide shown here, was designed and developed by FRAMPTON ELLIS at Anatomic Research in collaboration with athletic footwear industry experts in design and manufacturing at i-generator, as was the BARESOLE™ Basketball Shoe.
All of today’s shoes, even the best athletic shoes, are extremely unstable. Many are even more unstable than they used to be, so they can just roll over uncontrollably into an ankle sprain without being forced to in the traditional way, which was to step on another player’s foot.
The situation is so bad now that an NBA superstar like Kevin Durant sprained his left ankle while simply performing a practice layup during warm-ups. His real problem was not his ankle, but the basic instability design defect in all basketball shoes, even the very best.
The experimental prototype production BARESOLE™ Slides in all sizes are now available for testing. BARESOLE™ Basketball Shoes are now available!
As one of the first wearers of the experimental prototype BARESOLE™ in its very limited first edition – actually its first test production – you will become a true test pilot directly involved in the most advanced research in footwear sole technology. You will become part of a leading edge sole research experiment – the first pre-public test of a unique new footwear sole. The BARESOLE™ is a test prototype of a potentially new basic paradigm for all future footwear soles – the first with naturally safe stability like that of the barefoot.
