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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Shcrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And together, we are the most famous
physical therapist on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Brad, today we're gonna talk
about how you can choose the best footwear for running
or walking or whatever it is you wanna do in life.
- Well, we're looking at running and walking mostly Bob
because I get these questions a lot at work
as well as in my personal life. What shoes should I buy?
Are Saucony's good? Or, is it Nike?
- ASICS, yeah.
- What should I buy?
And my answer is everyone's different.
You need to go in and you need
to get the right shoe for you.
- Apparently everybody says these names differently too.
Is it "Saucony" or "Saucony"?
- Yeah, exactly. I'm not, we can
have some comments on there.
- Nike, Nike and Nike.
- Right?
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- There you go, Bob. Okay. Footwear. So what do you do
when you go into a shoe store with 15,000 shoes
- Right.
- all over the place and they're pretty colors.
We got green ones and blue ones and gray ones.
And what do you pick? Obviously you go
for the prettiest shoe. Well, that's the way
- I know what I do.
- That's the way they market it anyways.
- Yeah.
- But no, you really need find, you need to
find a good salesperson that really knows their shoes.
But even more importantly, watch this video,
cause we're gonna give you some basic information
on just how to get started and the first
thing to do is look at your foot. See
- Right. What kind of foot you have.
- Right. Okay. In the therapy world we call,
you could be flat footed or pronator.
That's the, the medical term, a neutral,
normal or average arch
- Just right in the middle.
- And then there's a high arch or a supinator.
- Right.
- So we're gonna look at that right now.
Now, as you notice at the beginning of the
- Were you going to put this down, Brad, or not?
- Yep. We're going to, thank you.
Now I happen to be a kind of an
average middle of the road arch.
- [Bob] Average, Joe.
- [Brad] Are you in on this? Like gotta, okay.
- [Bob] Lonnie's in.
- [Brad] So you put your foot down on the floor
and then you're gonna have to get down
and look at it a little bit close.
And it's not so important that you just put your
foot down and look at the arch, which is right here,
but you need to put weight on it.
- [Bob] Right? Cause it, it can, you know, even people
who have flat feet, a lot of times, if they put
their foot up there, they have a good arch.
- [Brad] Right.
- [Bob] It's once they put weight on it that it's
- [Brad] Now, now watch my arch when
I put weight on it, see how it collapses.
It collapses right there and, and you can see how,
if I roll a little bit it even collapses more,
I'm exaggerating this a little bit so you can see.
Now some people's, when they collapse,
this part right here will go right to the floor.
- [Bob] Yeah. The navicular bone here is right down.
- [Brad] Yeah exactly.
- [Bob] So you see, he has, I got a pretty good room right
here now to put my fingers in, two fingers even.
- [Brad] Right.
- [Bob] And then collapse Brad and
- [Brad] Yeah.
- [Bob] and all of a sudden now I'm down to one finger.
- [Brad] Right. Now let's look at
Bob's cuz he's got a high arch
- [Bob] I'm on the other end of here
- [Brad] He would technically be a supinator.
You can see a really definite arch right here.
And now put some weight on there
Bob and it collapses a little bit, but I can
still easily get two fingers in there. He's got a high arch.
- [Bob] Yeah and that was your starting point
was two fingers.
- [Brad] Right.
- [Bob] So that's my ending point.
- [Brad] Yep. So, now what you need to remember with this,
is a supinator, some of the high arch,
they have a rigid foot, like,
- [Bob] Right
- [Brad] like Bob does when he puts
weight on it, it's rigid.
- [Bob] Yeah
- [Brad] Everything is, is very tight.
All the ligaments at tendons. If you have--
- So it's not a good shock absorber.
- Right. Exactly
- So I need a shoe that's gonna be
more of a shock absorber for me.
- Yeah, and that's where we get into this.
- Right.
- If you have average arch, and the majority
of people are gonna be a foot like mine, then you need to
find a shoe kind of in the middle.
- [Bob] Right.
- [Brad] And they'll call it a stability shoe depending
on the manufacturer and which store you go to,
which is changing in the last few years
- [Bob] You're, you're the best case scenario, by the way
cuz you're, you're spreading the forces out on the foot.
Like you want 'em to be spread put.
- [Brad] Right, exactly. And then if you're a
flat footed person where your foot flattens right out,
your foot is spongy, it's soft,
it does not have a lot of rigidity.
- [Bob] Right.
- [Brad] And you need to make up that
rigidity with the shoe. Okay. So keep those
three categories in mind. The other really
important thing is, now I'm a good case
of this is the width of the shoe.
- [Bob] Sure.
- [Brad] I have a wide foot. I, there's many, like Nike's.
I can hardly find a Nike that fits me.
They don't have really wide shoes.
Maybe they do now, but I've just found,
I usually use New Balance or ASICS,
but I'll I'll wear any shoe if it fits right.
Those are just the ones that, once
once you find a shoe that fits you try to stick with it.
Well then they change the model.
- [Bob] Right.
- [Brad] But the width of the shoe,
that's called the toe box and when you put your foot
in a shoe, if it feels tight there a little bit,
when it's new, put it back on the shelf.
- [Bob] Yeah.
- [Brad] It needs to feel not loose, but very comfortable.
- [Bob] Yeah. That's not one area that's gonna wear
out and fit you like a, you know a glove that,
that's an area that you want to have fit right away.
- [Brad] I've done it. I've taken,
because they were on sale.
- [Bob] Sure.
- [Brad] Half price. Oh, it's a little snug,
but it'll, it'll loosen up in a little bit.
I'll go, I remember going to run it
by the time I got to mile two, I was coming back
and I took the shoes back because there's
no way that they were gonna loosen up.
So get 'em to fit good right away. All right.
Now let's look at, if you are a flat footed person
and you need a shoe, that's gonna make up for that,
the laxity in your foot, you're gonna need
what is called a motion control shoe.
Now these shoes, I went to a, a store
in on Alaska, Wisconsin, right by La Crosse.
It's called Rogan's best or Rogan's Shoes.
- It's where I buy all my shoes.
- Yup, there's about 30 stores I found, 31 stores
and it's just in the Midwest of United States.
- Sure.
- So you're gonna have to go, you know, if you're not
from this area and many of you aren't, you know
find a good shoe store and they have a chart.
- There's a lot of, shoe stores, yeah.
- They have a chart that they put around in their store and
and they categorize their shoe from a motion control
and then how the shoe loosens up
in its fit down to a neutral foot.
So, you can look at this chart in the store
go to the box and look on the box,
and it gives you some general idea.
Is this shoe close to what is gonna fit for me or not?
So the, these things are available.
Now, I was, I wanted to get back to the motion control shoe.
Now, Lonnie, I want you to look at this.
There's not gonna be a lot of people who need this shoe.
If you look at it close, are you zoomed in?
- [Lonnie] Yes.
- Look at right here, how thick and dense this is.
The, the, uh, cushion.
- [Bob] Yeah. There's no softness there.
- Right.
- [Bob] That's, that's hard support.
- The sole is gray. That means that cushion is hard.
If you try to dig your finger in and a fingernail
and it's hard. Now, if you take this shoe, which is white
- [Bob] And which one is this now, Brad?
- [Bob] This one is more into the
stability shoe for the medium arch, okay.
- [Bob] Okay. Or what you'd wear
- [Brad] Right. Exactly. Very soft.
If it's white, it's soft. They introduce carbon
into this foam, It makes it gray and it makes
it much harder as far as looking at it, technically.
Just remember if it's gray, you can poke
your finger to it much harder.
That's why this is a very, I mean, I'm trying to bend
- [Bob] Yeah.
- This as hard than can, it is tight. Okay.
- [Bob] It's not gonna let that foot collapse.
- [Brad] Right. So this is what you're gonna need
and you could just tell they're heavier
and they cost quite a bit more.
- [Bob] And you have to be able to
tolerate these though, too.
- Right.
- [Bob] I mean, even if you have flat feet,
you have to be able to tolerate this.
- Exactly. Put it on. I've had patients that love them.
- [Bob] Right.
- I've had patients with flat feet and say
- [Bob] I can't tolerate it.
- I, I don't care for it. So, it technically,
it might be for you but you gotta try it out.
- Right.
- Walk around the store with it.
- It's affecting things all the way up the chain.
- Exactly.
- I mean, it's affecting your knees,
it's affecting your hip, it's affecting your ankle.
- Now, now let's go to, to this shoe
which would be more of the stabilizer for the medium.
Actually this would be more for a medium foot.
And there is a crossover between shoes.
There isn't one fit, you know,
like we're just talking about as long
as you kind of understand where you're at and try 'em on.
If you look at this shoe, it's white here.
So we got some cushion in the sole.
If you're a heel-toe runner, which I used to be,
I'm not anymore, we'll talk about that in a little bit,
which I think most people are heel-toe.
When you walk, you're definitely heel-toe.
- [Bob] Right.
- [Brad] That's the only way you walk.
You want cushion in the sole because
when your heel comes down, you wanna take the
impact away from the joints, put it into the shoe.
Okay. So it's white cushion here
and you can look right in here,
they'll have a very solid arch support in here.
So it's stable within the arch.
And then also, on good shoes, the insert always comes out.
If there's glued in there, it's probably a cheaper shoe.
And usually a factory insert is very flat
and they have a tiny little bit of art support.
If you want more art support, cuz it feels good,
then you're gonna have to purchase an insert, you know
for $20 or $30 with an arch support
and slip that in there, take the factory one out
put the new one in. Shoe shopping becomes,
until you get it tuned out, tuned in for what you want,
you can, you gotta need to plan on spending some
time in the shoe store
- Yeah
- With about eight pairs of shoes and
try 'em all on different combination.
- And I go, I run, I run in the store.
I run on the side side of the store.
- Do you really?
- Yeah. Oh, I do.
There's a store in La Crosse, they have a treadmill
in there and they will videotape you.
- Oh wow.
- And they will fit you for a shoe.
- Nice.
- I'd like to have them come in and cause I don't
I'm sure there's other stores that do that around.
So this is a shoe, it's got some cushion.
You could use this for the, the average arch
or even a supinator might feel comfortable in this now.
- And yeah, I'm a supinator again.
I have a high arch, but I do wear the shoes, Brad.
- Okay.
- I tried these once and it was the same as you.
I, I, I, I had to take it, I couldn't stand it.
- Okay and so this one is even has less stability.
You can tell, look at this, I can one finger.
This is kind of a good test.
How much support does the shoe have?
Look at that one compared this one.
- It doesn't even bend.
- Yeah. And look at the color of the sole, it's white.
If you push your finger, it's very soft.
It's got cushion, so it's going to offer some cushion.
for maybe supinator, but it, it doesn't have much stability.
If you got a high arch, you don't need stability.
- You don't need stability
- You need the cushion. It's a lighter shoe.
It might be good for running or for racing.
- What's this one called again, Brad?
- This one, now this one that I'm getting mixed up
because the chart that they
- Oh yeah, they
- They've changed the names, right.
- Sure, gotcha
- This would be the motion control, the stability or the
the high arch or the supinator.
- Okay.
- Um, is what this is for
- Really. You really don't even need to know the names
so much as that. You just need to know
what kind of, you know are you looking for
soft, average or, you know, very stiff
- Right? Depending on the arch.
- Yeah.
- Like I said, they, different stores will
have different names. Motion control
is pretty, pretty standard. Yep.
- For flat feet.
- I do wanna talk about people that like to forefoot run.
- Okay.
- Barefoot runners always run and
they land on their forefoot. They don't heel-toe,
cuz heel, you'll really beat up your heel
and your joints and you're running your forefoot
but there's a lot of runners and faster runners.
The books that I've read on people who run fast,
including marathon runners, they're
running on their forefoot.
- Right.
- So I started doing it.
- And so did I, and I, I really do
think there's less injury potential.
- Yeah.
- And I think you can extend the life of your running.
- And for that, you can get away with a very,
this is my shoe that I run with.
I've had over a couple years New Balance made it
and now they quit making these.
So, I'm trying to find one that that matches.
This is very flimsy. It's very light.
And I run on my forefeet and that's all I need.
I don't need any cushion on my heel,
cuz it never touches the ground.
- Right.
- My calf muscles took a while to get, about two
or three years of training before I
could really feel comfortable.
- Yeah. Your calves are gonna feel a lot more on that type
of style running, you're gonna notice they get sore and
- Look how flimsy these are there.
- Yeah.
- There's not much between you and the, the road
- I found that I, I can use a shoe
longer when I'm a forefoot runner.
- Sure.
- It, it, it just, you know, because it, I don't really
need as much support because my, the forces are
being dispersed through my foot.
I can get by with, with less.
- Sure.
- So even when it gets wore down, I'm still okay.
- Yeah. I, from my foot, you can, you can always
look at the bottom of your shoes and see how your,
- Diagnose, right.
- your wear pattern is. If all the
wear's off your heel, you know,
your striking hard there. So this is just a,
- Basics, yeah.
- Basics overview of shoes, your feet fit it together.
Take your time with it. Go to the store,
find a good sales rep. If they're always talking
about colors and styles find one
that's talking about arch supports.
- And then when you find one, keep bringing that one back
in and they'll try to match you up with one that's similar.
- Right, exactly.
- That's what I always do
- So, so like they say on Forest Gump,
take good care of your feet.
- They do?
- Yeah. Remember that movie?
- No. Well, I remember the movie,
I don't remember the line.
- Ah, yeah.
- All right. Thanks for watching.