To elaborate more on last week’s post on static alignment and overuse injuries, we are going to take it a step further and discuss if resting foot position has any bearing on running injuries. The ...

This week we are going to talk not of a specific diagnosis or condition of the lower extremity but rather a mechanical fault of the foot which causes a number of conditions. The mechanical fault or ...

Pronation control of the foot is simply the decrease or protection against flattening of the medial longitudinal arch which controls the hip, knee and ankle as well as the foot itself. Anti-pronation ...

Background: Chronic plantar heel pain (CPHP) is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders of the foot, yet its aetiology is poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to examine the ...

For many years, shoe companies, magazines, and assorted running experts advised pronating runners to seek out motion-control shoes. The idea seemed simple: The inward-tilting motion of the legs after ...

In the relatively recent past, things were simple: your foot type was classified as overpronator, underpronator, or neutral, and you were supposed to get a running shoe designed for that foot type. If ...

Researchers have followed 927 healthy novice runners with different pronation types for a full year. All study participants received the same model of neutral running shoe, regardless of whether they ...

Numerous factors -- including the structure of your hip and leg, whether you have flat feet and even the shoes you wear to work out -- may affect the position of the foot during activities, says ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the association between CPHP and a number of commonly hypothesised causative factors. Univariate analyses showed an association between CPHP and increased BMI, ...