When shopping for a shoe to treat your heel pain the first thing you must look for is a firm heel counter. The heel counter is the back portion of the shoe that wraps around your heel bone and controls pronation and supination. (excessive pronation and supination are contributing factors of plantar fasciitis) When selecting new shoes squeeze the heel counter to make sure it is firm. If the heel counter collapses it is not correct shoe and will most likely not support your foot and ankle properly.
The next thing to check is the flexibility of the shoe. Using both hands hold the shoe by the heel and toe. Try to bend the sole of the shoe in the middle. If the sole offers little resistance and collapses in the middle then stay away from the shoe. The proper soles should bend very gradual and offer some resistant. This is needed to withstand the thousands of steps you will take while wearing the shoes. The next thing to look for is an elevated heel with a rocker sole. The heel of the shoe should be about 1 inch high; this will help shift some of the weight off of your painful heels. As for the rocker sole, the best way to test this is to put the shoe on a flat surface and push down on the toe. The shoe should rock forward in a rolling motion. As a rule of thumb, the more the shoe rocks the better it is to help heal your plantar fasciitis. Never buy a shoe that has "neutral" or flat heel, this type of shoe will reload the weight bearing of your foot onto your heels, thus creating more pressure and exacerbating the condition. Make sure the shoes have adequate cushioning to absorb the impact when your heels strike the ground.
Our God given machine of motion still explodes power in this day and age!Yet, weekend runners who barely run a tenth of a marathon are spending hundreds of dollars to buy advanced technology for their feet!Why is the man on the street spending so much on high tech shoes when marathon runners and hunters happily thrive without them?The answer is advertising and product branding.Shoemakers astutely noticed that city folks are mostly overpronators or underpronators. Hence, in an effort to capitalise on this underlying dysfunction, they design shoes that support and cushion shock. Consequently
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Overpronation, Underpronation and Neutral Feet
These are just some of qualities to look for when shopping for shoes to help your heel pain. I also recommend that you buy a shoe with removable insoles. This will allow you to add your own orthotics to and totally customize a shoe to your specific foot condition.
After 25 years in the orthopedic shoe business I don't know how many times I have been asked the question
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More than 75% of city dwellers are either overpronators or underpronators. Essentially, it means that your feet lose their ability to accommodate ground unevenness and absorption of daily walking stress. Your foot has curved in one direction and cannot return to neutral state think of it as a jammed window that cannot close.In its functional state, our feet are made to pronate; curve to suit the contours of the ground. This is how we can run side ways on slopes and edges without tumbling over. Hence, feet with full range of pronation can walk, run, jog barefooted and not injure themselves (assuming you are not silly enough to go running on broken glass).Since the foot has lost its ability to fully pronate, shoemakers generally believe that a shoe has to be padded, cushioned, gelled and reinforced. The reason being that it will make up for the feets loss of pronation range. Hence, the natural progression towards spending millions on technology research and charging you hundreds of dollars more per pair.