OT: Toe Query: body modification of the lower noodly appendages?

I have been reading a website that has some crazy ideas on disease,
but if you please skip those bits , you will see some disturbing
pictures & discussion on the de-formation of the shape of the foot.

www.shoebusters.com/thesis.html

Basically, they show pictures comparing the foot of a habitually
unshod person and that of a westerner, showing how a 'natural' foot
should have the big toe widely spaced from the rest, and pointing
forward or inwards a bit. A straight line should be able to be drawn
from the tip of the big toe, though to the heel. Most peoples' big
toes have been deformed inwards in response to years of wearing
tight-toebox shoes in the developmental years.

Do you accept that as reasonable? And do you think that deformity
could be reversed by a few months or so of inserting a wine-cork (or
whatever) between the biggest toe & next one? Would the toes
permanently alter to a more natural angle, or is that not possible for
an adult foot, would there likely be negative consequences of trying
to do so?

Pierre you're a tattoed piercing freak right, are you or your
friends into body-modification too, whaddya reckon about this? Bob,
you never know, you might need to rehab someone with toe-injuries one
day. Isn't that Mark Goldberg a podiatrist, where's he?

-Charlie

ps. um, actually I'm just asking this for a friend of mine, yeah he
wanted to know
.

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