A person s gait, foot prints left in the sand, even the way one holds their head tells volumes about the condition of your nervous system. While making such an observation at the food court of a local Mall I discovered an irony contained in the use of Heelys and their cousin Rolling Shoes.

A Heely is a pair of shoes that have a single wheel on each heel and a Rolling Shoe has 2 wheels on each shoe. They are all the rage!

On such devices kids were effortlessly gliding past me as if on an airport conveyor belt. My initial reaction was, quit that before you crash into something and someone get hurt! Then I made 2 observations that gave me reason to temporarily reconsider my position.

The first was that having these shoes on their feet and skating around meant that these kids were not parked in front of a TV set playing video games. Instead they were actually out getting exercise and loving it! That alone gave cause for celebration and yet there was more.

My second observation was that in order to move forward these kids had to place their center of gravity directly over the wheel of the shoe. This meant that they were forced to properly maintain the lordotic curvature of their low back and neck and the kyphotic curvature of their thoracics, which in turn minimized the chances of pinched nerves or subluxations from occurring. In other words they had to maintain perfect posture!

From a Chiropractor s point of view the health benefit of that alone lessened my fear that they were going to hurt their self or others due to these devices.

Don t get me wrong the obvious danger of a kid skating around without pads or a helmet in a crowded mall prevents me from endorsing either product in any way however seeing kids stand tall like God intended for them to do does bring a smile to my face.

Now all we need is to find a fun way for kids to eat Broccoli.