You can decrease potential Running Injuries
Top 3 questions runners ask us about custom foot orthotics:
1. Do I need to wear custom foot orthotics if I’m not injured?
2. Will custom foot orthotics improve my performance?
3. Will I need to wear custom foot orthotics forever?
Researchers answer all three questions with an empathic YES!
Surprised?
Don’t be! 3.5 times your body weight passes through your feet with each and every step.
The reality is the average person takes over 10,000 steps per day, a number largely magnified by running. Years of standing, walking and exercising on hard surfaces with non-specific arch support results in the vast majority of problems we encounter – poor posture, aches and pains.
C’mon, think about it. Most of us buy and wear shoes mass produced, i.e., NOT specific to the needs of our feet.
And then we wonder why we end up with running injuries, in pain and unable to exercise. It’s all about the passage of force!
Foot facts: your foot goes through 2 general motions…pronation and supination. Optimal pronation and supination is how your body absorbs the shock of your body-weight from gravity and is totally dependent upon the posture of each foot.
Pronation is when the foot unlocks as it hits the ground for shock absorption. The higher your foot arch, the more time your foot has to decelerate your body-weight after your foot strikes the ground.
Immediately after your foot unlocks for pronation, it must re-stiffen or lock. This locking is called supination. Supination creates the leverage necessary to propel you forward and onto your next step.
Research showed that those wearing orthotics had “a significantly reduced rate of exercise-related lower limb injury across the training period”. The authors emphasized that participants were prescribed orthotics to reduce the potential risk of injury, not because they were dealing with an injury.
In addition, the authors feel that the “preventative results can be cautiously extrapolated to a recreational running setting and should be considered by sports and exercise medicine professionals.”
Yes you need to wear custom foot orthotics if you’re not injured because it will reduce your risk of injury. Injuries retard progression and ultimately result in a set-back that can be prevented.
Yes a custom foot orthotic can improve your performance.
However, only a custom foot orthotic created specific to your full available arch will optimize pronation and supination! Orthotics that fail to capture your full available arch are simply expensive shoe inserts and pointless.
Yes you’ll need to wear custom foot orthotics forever.
Unless of course you’d prefer to lose the biomechanical advantage a true custom foot orthotic offers,and helps you avoid running injuries.
Reference:
Franklyn-Miller A, Wilson C, Bilzon J, et al.
Foot orthoses in the prevention of injury in initial military training: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Sports Med 39(1):30-37, 2011.
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