ItвЂ™s a long process that requires you taking it slow not to hurt yourself. Or, you can chose the solution that takes a bit more time but will last longer: correct your pattern. To ease the pain, you can try to improve your support using special inserts, based on your doctorвЂ™s recommendations. The problem is that, as stated in the beginning of this article, weвЂ™ve been walking a certain way our whole life, and our body is now used to it. This unstable posture causes chronic pains but will also result in a joint and muscular weakness on the long term. In both cases, a bad foot pattern results in a bad repartition of the body mass and a distortion of your silhouette. Supinators are more easily touched by ankle sprain, ligament tearing, tendonitis and heel, hip and back pains.

Moreover, this high arch reduce the footвЂ™s ability to absorb shocks, these latter hitting your legs and back with a higher impact. The foot being extremely arched, supinators can really suffer in the foot arch and heel areas. Hyper-pronators are more easily touched by tendonitis, plantar fasciitis, Patellar syndrome (due to the patellaвЂ™s displacement) and other issues caused by a poor alignment of the legs.ДЄ strong supination, on the other hand, puts more pressure on the muscles and tendons that stabilize your ankle, which can provoke important pains and tissues elongations. Indeed, even if your body adapts вЂ“to a certain point вЂ“ to your way of walking, a big, long-lasting deformation will eventually become painful and could cause injuries. This could lead to joint pains, especially in the ankle and knees, but also to hip and back aches. Your knees and hips wonвЂ™t be in your bodyвЂ™s alignment anymore. Pronation therefore add pressure on the inner part of your leg a distortion the body will have to adapt to. In case of hyper-pronation, instead of propelling your body with the whole foot, you will mainly rely on the inner part of your foot. On the contrary, supinators have quite arched feet, the pressure on the arch being less important. Pronators often have a rather flat foot, the body being mainly supported by the inner part of the foot. If youвЂ™re pronator, your foot will then twist outside, using the outer part of your foot and smallest toes to support your weight. When youвЂ™re walking, your foot first hits the ground with the heel. However, when this tendency is too important, it can cause distortions and pain in the whole body. Having a slight tendency to one or the other is very common and often harmless. Indeed, a foot naturally has pronation (moving inwards) and/or supination (moving outwards) phases while walking. However, this ideal pattern is pretty rare. From there, your bodyвЂ™s propulsion should be triggered by the front part of your feet for an optimal movement.

To get an ideal pattern, you should strike the ground with the outer part of your heel, slightly move your foot inwards (light pronation movement) to lay it flat. The foot pattern is the phase during which your foot hits the ground (usually with the heel), rolls on the ground before elevating to propel your body forward (using the front part of your foot). The champion of back pains, the King of bad posture, the enemy of podiatrists: the foot.

After explaining the importance of your posture in this first article, you got to understand what was the right stride to adopt during our last encounter.Д«ut IвЂ™ve kept the best for last. WeвЂ™re gathered here today to finish our walking trilogy.

Walking with feet outward