To 'make' your feet....feel 'good'...
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We have a company called The Good Feet Store locally that specializes in personalized arch supports. Their commercials play all the time on local television. I've never tried them but I do buy Johnston & Murphy shoes because they are stylish but feature comfort. In a couple of pairs I do have Dr. Scholl's arch supports and they work well. They are the ones that go about 2/3 of the way through the shoes. I have bursitis in my knees and if I don't have comfortables shoes they swell up.
) the post/threadI had some prescription orthotic inserts made for me once.
The doc looked at my feet and made molds for them... while doing that
he kinda' casually said, "Ya' know, I can shave these bones here and a little there
and it should really improve things." - It was like I'd come for hair removal and a wax job... and I can take a little off the top.
A crazy man... "I can shave your bones..."
Anyway, I got them a while later and wore them for a few days and they hurt my feet.
So, I wore them for another week and threw them in the trash.
The doc looked at my feet and made molds for them... while doing that
he kinda' casually said, "Ya' know, I can shave these bones here and a little there
and it should really improve things." - It was like I'd come for hair removal and a wax job... and I can take a little off the top.
A crazy man... "I can shave your bones..."
Anyway, I got them a while later and wore them for a few days and they hurt my feet.
So, I wore them for another week and threw them in the trash.
Aunt Bea
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Years ago, I had a bout with plantar fasciitis.
The podiatrist taped my foot and gave me a prescription for arch supports.
The results were amazing and almost instantaneous.
The cost was around fifty dollars at the time and my insurance covered them.
The podiatrist taped my foot and gave me a prescription for arch supports.
The results were amazing and almost instantaneous.
The cost was around fifty dollars at the time and my insurance covered them.
hollydolly
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I had a similar experience with the arch supports , they hurt a lot , made it difficult to walk in them, so they got thrown away.
Instead I took foot exercises whch helped me to not have flat feet.. and so I didn't need arch supports
Twostep
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You my want to visit the store. Have you considered custom made inserts? A world of a difference!
hollydolly
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..because I walked 12 hours a day on concrete in the studios.. I got PF..it was the most painful thing I ever felt in my feet..I was desperate to find something that would help me otherwise I wasn't going to be able to stand, and that's when I discovered Sketchers
I;d tried everything for the PF.. nothing except the elastic compression socks which went a long way to helping and I wore them with my ordinary boots and it took the pain away by about 50 % worked.. but it wasn't until I got my first pair of sketchers that the pain was eased by almost 100 %..it was like walking on a cloud !...from then on I was hooked... I don't have PF now.. but I still buy Sketchers..
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Oldeagle66
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I wear them regularly and get them yearly along with shoes from the VA.
Twostep
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Running and running barefoot. Oh do I miss it. Three Plantar Fibrosis surgeries and months of using a Granny Convertible later it took a long time to be able to wear heels and boots again. There are lines of ortho foot wear which actually looks good.
Asics or New Balance only. I tried Sketchers again recently. They feel squishy.
Asics or New Balance only. I tried Sketchers again recently. They feel squishy.
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Yes! So many people suffer from plantar fasciitis (the spelling itself is cruel) and it's a shame, because it's an easy fix.
We always go sock-footed in the house. Shortly after we moved to a house with hardwood floors my son and i got plantar fasciitis. We got some running shoes just for indoors and started wearing them all the time and it went away.
When we moved to this house with carpeting we were able to go back to sock-footed indoors.
Twostep
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I would find myself on my butt all day long.
Yes, when I was in my 40s I developed plantar fasciitis and the doctor I consulted (phone appointment only) suggested custom arch supports (orthotics). The site I ordered from had a list of activities (e.g., hiking, dancing, etc) so in addition to the custom molds, the activities would determine slight differences. I chose two activities (don't remember exactly which) and received one set that was a tiny bit higher (feels like). They came with instructions to gradually increase use, and to my surprise the more aggressive pair that had hurt more in the beginning became the most comfortable and supportive-feeling for hiking.
I tried ordering again and chose the activity I thought was the one for the more aggressive pair, but I received another set of the less aggressive ones. I wish I'd tried again or called them, because by the time many years later that I tried, that company didn't exist anymore.
I've since experimented with generic (non-custom) orthotics but they hurt and I threw them away. And I tried doing the custom mold type with a company on Amazon and the product I got was really bad, the arches might have been okay but the whole thing was way too narrow and small, I wondered if the foam mold shrunk in transit back to them. It was very disappointing.
So, I'm still using the original ones from my 40s, the rest of the insoles wore out long ago and for a while I'd duct-taped them, but eventually peeled/scraped off the remains of the glued on insoles and now I use the orthotics bare under the insoles of shoes. I had seen a company advertised that would glue new insoles on existing orthotics, but I didn't get around to trying them, and really I was afraid to send my precious aggressive pair away, in fear something would happen and I wouldn't get them back.
I use the less aggressive custom orthotics for my around-the-house shoes (and when I was working I used the 2nd pair of less aggressive orthotics in my work shoes), and the aggressive ones when I go out on walks & hikes.
This past winter I didn't do my normal amount of walking, then I got new shoes (but used same orthotics), and went out for a fast long walk and had a surprise plantar fasciitis flareup. I'm not sure if it was due to the unaccustomed walking, the lack of any kind of warm-up walk, or the new shoes, but I've since been following foot stretch and massage techniques on YouTube, and went back to my old shoes, and am careful to start walks slow, and that (plus of course my beloved orthotics) has been working and on one day of my recent trip to Italy I walked 20,000+ steps and my feet were fine (muscles were a different story!).
McBride
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When I was in my twenties I used arch supports in my figure skates, but never used them in shoes. Years go buy and I discovered Dansko clogs with built-in arch support. Now I only wear Dansko clogs - perfect for someone with a high arch.