hingehead wrote:dlowan wrote:
Are you a sports scientist type person?
I agree with the poster who said that they engender an urge to move, and make it easy.....I was herbing around in the borrowed pair very rapidly, and it was fun...
Not one, but I worked with some of Australia's best in a previous life.
It was a cool discussion because there was a counter opinion about that saying they were difficult to walk in in certain cases (short steps on carpet?), and I got a sense that because they work a different set of muscles you would want to be sure that was addressing whatever problem you were trying to sort.
I'm a big fan of osteopaths too - but if yours hasn't heard of MBT they will be reluctant to give advice.
GW - you like the look of them? (as Douglas Adams said: Put your analyst on danger money:wink:). I think seeing them not attached to legs is misleading, I get the feeling that they would look a bit like those shoes that people with a shortened leg wear to even up their gait.
That WAS a cool discussion.....but a little incomprehensible to the non musculoskeletal expert!
My friend's podiatrist recommended the shoes to her, (she has feet that caused him to break into astonished laughter the first time he saw them), and she has been unable to walk any distance without pain for years. Now she is able to walk quite long distances.
I will ask my osteopath.....if she doesn't know now, she will probably want to know.
I aminterested that you think well of osteopaths.
I have not been going long to mine, and I was very unsure, but I had an absolutely pain free day yesterday.....I have quite severe chronic neck pain, after a few too many falls from horses, some nasty rear enders, and too smegging many years of study and such.....I could NOT believe what it was like to be pain free! I get soooo tired, and I had boundless energy and was much more optimistic.
Thinking mebbe when I am getting near needing new runners....IF I happen to have any money!
snood wrote:They're interesting looking, but I have chronic achilles tendonitis, and I think that 'up'-curved heel wouldn't agree with me. 'Sides, it ain't like I can afford 'em, or anything...
Ouch...that sounds nasty. Where does it hurt when you have that?
Yes yes yes re the expense.....though, IF they meant less visits to various practitioners.......?
High arch, Beth? Why?
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