Helpful Hints When Walking With Flat Feet
In a recent article in Bottom Line Health, a podiatrist indicated that you should opt for running shoes when you're looking for walking shoes.
He said lots of brands of walking shoes are heavy and don't flex well and may have a clunky, big heel as well.
This keeps your foot from rolling properly as you push off.
When you are walking you are supposed to make contact with pavement, or grass, with your heel and roll through your arch and push off with your toe.
A lot of shoes like working and some walking shoes do not let you do this.
Running shoes are usually a lot lighter and provide comfortable cushioning and have flexible soles.
Another thing you have to take into consideration when you are getting shoes is the arch that you have on your feet.
Did you know the arches on each of your feet may not be the same? You may have one arch that is very flat and the other arch is regular and that is important to know when you are buying your shoes.
If you have flat feet you should try to buy shoes with an arch.
This is very beneficial to your body.
If you try to wear a shoe with an arch and you have flat feet you are going to feel like you are walking on a boulder.
It feels like there is something hard under your foot that is just not right.
One of the ways you can start to release those muscles and tendons on the bottom of your foot so you can adapt more easily to that arch support is simply by getting a tennis ball or a golf ball and rolling the ball under your foot long-ways and then wide-ways.
You stand up and support yourself on one foot and have the ball under the arch of your other foot and you roll the ball back and forth long ways - back and forth -- and then roll it from side to side under the arch.
When you do this exercise you will find your muscles and tendons will be released - it's like having a foot massage.
In the old days people use to run on the grass, on sticks, through brooks and streams.
Now we wear hard-soled shoes that support our foot all the time or we walk on flat surfaces and we do not get the natural massage going that our feet need.
Do this rolling for about 5 minutes while you apply pressure to that foot.
Then put that foot down on the ground and do your other foot.
You will quickly be able to tell the difference.
When you walk and your feet begin to hurt, it is time to check your arches to see if you need an arch support inserted into your shoes.
He said lots of brands of walking shoes are heavy and don't flex well and may have a clunky, big heel as well.
This keeps your foot from rolling properly as you push off.
When you are walking you are supposed to make contact with pavement, or grass, with your heel and roll through your arch and push off with your toe.
A lot of shoes like working and some walking shoes do not let you do this.
Running shoes are usually a lot lighter and provide comfortable cushioning and have flexible soles.
Another thing you have to take into consideration when you are getting shoes is the arch that you have on your feet.
Did you know the arches on each of your feet may not be the same? You may have one arch that is very flat and the other arch is regular and that is important to know when you are buying your shoes.
If you have flat feet you should try to buy shoes with an arch.
This is very beneficial to your body.
If you try to wear a shoe with an arch and you have flat feet you are going to feel like you are walking on a boulder.
It feels like there is something hard under your foot that is just not right.
One of the ways you can start to release those muscles and tendons on the bottom of your foot so you can adapt more easily to that arch support is simply by getting a tennis ball or a golf ball and rolling the ball under your foot long-ways and then wide-ways.
You stand up and support yourself on one foot and have the ball under the arch of your other foot and you roll the ball back and forth long ways - back and forth -- and then roll it from side to side under the arch.
When you do this exercise you will find your muscles and tendons will be released - it's like having a foot massage.
In the old days people use to run on the grass, on sticks, through brooks and streams.
Now we wear hard-soled shoes that support our foot all the time or we walk on flat surfaces and we do not get the natural massage going that our feet need.
Do this rolling for about 5 minutes while you apply pressure to that foot.
Then put that foot down on the ground and do your other foot.
You will quickly be able to tell the difference.
When you walk and your feet begin to hurt, it is time to check your arches to see if you need an arch support inserted into your shoes.
