Running Shoes and Insoles For Flat Feet
Question:
Good afternoon, Oleg Sergeevich.
I have longitudinal flat feet, II grade. Usually, the doctors, of course, think I'm crazy because I run with a flat feet. But I know many people with the same diagnosis who run like me and don't have any problems.
I have two questions:
- Should I buy special running shoes which are considered as shoes for runners with hyperpronation? My experience tells me that such running shoes don't differ significantly from ones for neutral pronation.
- Where can I order insoles which could be used instead of usual insoles of running shoes in order to reduce potential harmful impact of running with flat feet?
Thank you!
Answer:
Kulkov Oleg
Master of Sports of International class in track and field athletics, winner of the Zurich marathon, participant of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, multiple European Cup and Russian championships medalist, coach of the school “I Love Running”
Good afternoon.
As for a purchase of special running shoes, I can agree with you if orthopedic insoles are considered as a mean of reducing load on the foot arch. In this case, the significance of special running shoes decreases.
Insoles should be custom-made. A purchase of standard insoles in the chemist's shop is not a problem solution. You need custom-made orthoses. I wore individual insoles during training earlier. It happened after years of "struggling" with plantar fasciitis. Once, after warming up, the pain in my heel didn't go away and I sought help from the orthopedist, Vladimir Ilyich Nechaev. He's a unique person, Master of Sports in the track and field athletics (marathon 2.16) and for a long time, he worked with the Russian track and field team. Thanks to his talent and knowledge Valentina Yegorova, Russian long-distance runner, won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and silver in Atlanta in 1996.
The official distributor of Formthotics, the manufacturer of custom orthotics, appeared in Russia thanks to the doctor Nechaev as well, (V. Nechaev lives in Moscow). Formthotics is a reliable technology tested by hundreds of professional sportsmen and thousands of people who just needed the help of an orthopedist. You can visit the web-site and find addresses of medical centers and specialists who are the official distributors of FormThotics insoles. There are only three such specialists in Ekaterinburg. I assure you that if you seek help from them you will be offered everything that can help to reduce the load during running. But I'll say right away that the cost of these insoles is comparable with the cost of your running shoes but they will serve you for many years and protect your foot from many problems.
Wish health for you and your feet!)
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