About Us
Ten-Point opened 6 years ago as the first MBT shop in the UK, and has since
evolved as researched innovations came to the market. We are
acknowledged specialists of encouraging Active Healthy Lifestyles by
finding user-friendly products which enable people to help themselves.
Come and see us!
Helen
Privett is a fully qualified medical therapist with a background of 20+
years in the exercise and therapy industries. Having specialised in the
therapeutic treatment of vascular and lymphatic disorders, and used MBT
footwear successfully since their UK arrival in 2002 as an aid to her
work, the natural progression was for her to open the first MBT specialist retail outlet which she named Ten-Point.
Helen is now an advanced MBT medical trainer, qualified and able to provide specialist help with the therapeutic and medical applications of MBT. One-to-one rehabilitation sessions are
available by appointment, to help you improve your running and/or
walking gait and give greater stability to the skeletal structure of
the body when in a dynamic state.
If you are looking for:
Better posture
Improved gait pattern
Excellent core strength training and muscle toning
Improved balance, co-ordination and reaction time
Rehabilitation and recovery from injury or surgery
Injury prevention…
Come to the specialist centre that is Ten-Point.
MBT-UK
advise: “If MBT is to be used as an accompanying therapy to specific
health problems, it is essential that you are supervised by a health
professional and an MBT-Trainer”.
Helen
is happy to work alongside/with direction from your remedial specialist
(osteopath, chiropractor, physiotherapist, etc) should you so request.
Collectively, The Ten-Point Team (Helen, Wendy, Robin and Heather) provide FREE MBT/Chung Shi/FitFlop footwear demonstrations and FREE initial instruction
in how to use your MBT/Chung Shi/FitFlops effectively. We are also
masters at fitting a shoe to the vagaries of the human foot, so you can
be assured of the perfect fit, so important with physiological
footwear.
No appointment is necessary for this, just your time and your feet!
Ten-Point also provide continuing support with group and individual coaching sessions – in short, an UNRIVALLED SERVICE
and everything you need to enter the healthy world of physiological
footwear – sublimely comfortable footwear, instant postural correction
and evolving muscular strength and skeletal stability.
More and more of us are suffering from chronic aches, niggles and pains in muscles and joints that have no obvious origin, and therefore tend to be labelled as 'repetitive strain' or 'overuse'. Temporary relief is achieved through rest, over-the-counter and prescribed drugs and even surgery, but when not successful, the diagnosis tends to be 'you'll have to live with it'.
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We have evolved for 2 million years, but so far, nobody has been born with shoes on.
Bare, our feet are designed to be self-supporting structures, able to carry our body weight plus gravity.
They move us in any direction we wish to go, including upwards, with balance and strength. An engineering feat (excuse the pun!).
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These days, we are walking on man-made surfaces and forcing our feet into man-made restrictions called shoes that limit the foot’s ability to function naturally. The foot adapts, but unnaturally, and the arch's now-limited function leads to excessive pronation or 'flattening'.
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From the feet up, the entire skeleton will tend to lean inwards and forwards, leading to:
pressure points on small areas of the foot,
circulatory problems,
bent toes,
sore knees,
clicking hips,
bad backs,
aching neck and shoulders,
headaches
– sound familiar?
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Maybe, in another million years or so, our bodies will have found a way round paving slabs and stack heels!
In the meantime, solving this epidemic of modern day ailments is the priority. As they are related, amongst other things, to the environment, and our capacity to compensate (or not) for it, bare feet and fallow ground would appear to be the answer. Simple, but perhaps not practical.
If today we can change neither our physical make-up nor our walking surfaces, then let’s change something else. Let’s change what is next to our feet, and create a healthy micro-climate for them. If traditional shoes are unhelpful, and we have to protect our soles somehow, then let’s look at the new worlds of ‘physiological footwear’ and ‘biomechanical footbeds’. Necessity is the Mother of Invention, and in these fields, the inventors aim to allow the foot to function more naturally, and as a consequence, reduce the need for the body as a whole to have to cope with adaptive stresses. One day, all footwear might be clever, like ours!
