The Best Running Shoes For Flat Feet

* Flat Foot: What is it

The arch of the foot is formed by the tarsal and metatarsal bones and strengthened by ligaments and tendons. It allows the foot to retain the weight of the body in the erect posture with the least weight.

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The height of the arch determines pronation and foot type.The arch height of the foot can beyond doubt be checked using the wet feet test.

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People with a Low arch do not have a confident curve along the inside of the foot. The imprint taken in a wet test may show nearly the entire foot. Citizen with low arches are more likely to overpronate which can follow in injuries. Insufficiently expressed arches are called low or fallen arches. The term flat feet applies to the arch which is sitting on the ground completely.

* Runners with flat feet need to put extra care in choosing the best running shoe

Your foot arch is your natural shock absorption system. Nature designed it so that when you put your body weight over your feet the shock is absorbed by this mechanism in order to alleviate the impact (and subsequent injuries) that would otherwise hit your feet, ankles, knees and hips. A flat foot is the most graphic sign of overpronation, meaning that your arch collapses while the impact on the ground. As a consequence, your ankle twists inward and your knees overcompensates.

Flat feet are a singular concern for runners, as while the running gait the arch is supposed to retain on midpoint 3 times their body weight.

* shoes Technologies Aimed at Runners with Flat Feet

Over the last 20 years or so, all the major running footwear producers advanced definite technologies aimed at helping runners with flat feet run in comfort and safety.
The key words you have to remember are: stability, retain and motion control.
- retain is what a flat foot runner needs. When looking at shoes reviews or technical specifications, any indication of "added support" means you are headed in the right direction.
- Stability is an commerce appropriate term that categorizes running shoes aimed at helping overpronation: every brand has their own variety of Stability Running shoes.
- motion operate are Stability Shoes for the most severe overpronators: they comprise the solutions of stability shoes and focus in enhancing them.

The main technology found in Stability shoes is a medial post of dual density foam. Footwear producers inject a harder aggregate of foam right below the medial side of the arch and sometimes extended all the way to the heel. It is beyond doubt recognizable as a darker (almost always gray) piece of foam on the inside of the midsole.

You can read our recommendations about the best running shoes for flat feet in summer 2009, along with all our other running shoes reviews.

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