Flat Foot & Overpronation [Top 3 Evidence Based Treatments 2022!]

QUESTION: Where does your OVERPRONATION cause YOU PAIN? 🦶Thanks for subscribing!🦶 Also let us know what topics you want to hear about! For the shoes and orthotics recommended in the video: wp.me/p9imRX-54n

You Are RIGHT! I honestly didn't realise that my overpronation was causing my entire lifes' strange fatigue, pain in body whenever I walked about. I need to get it sorted.

My achilles tear from five months back now makes so much more sense. I recognized years of poor posture, tight ankles, and chronic tendonitis, but never really considered that it was my feet that were generating the issues leading up to it. This is only going to benefit my ability to properly recover, thank you!

This channel is literally best for all the foot issues. Keep it up there's no channel like you

OMG I had all these symptoms for years. Finally went to a podiatrist and an orthopedic surgeon to get treatment. Proper orthopedic shoes, custom inserts, weight management and massage therapy helped tremendously.

This...this explains a lot about why my back usually hurts...and why I cant stand for long periods of time yikes. I dont understand why you dont mave more than 1.5k views per vid at least...

Hi from the UK🇬🇧 and thank you for this video. I now understand why my ankles rolls over to one side(always hated the way it looks), worst on my left foot. My feet are extremely flat, looks like a flat fish. I have bunions, again worst on my left foot. I get sciatica and pain in my lower back. Always have to wear shoes that grip my sides where there should be arches. Even though I have visited a chiropodist at the hospital and they made me a pair of insoles my flat feet and rolling of feet has never been explained to me. This is one of the best explanations I have seen.👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

For anyone who is struggling with pain and who is the US, please look up a physical therapist who is trained in the Manual Therapy Institute. El Paso PT has a great you tube channel. I am working with a PT now for hip and knee pain, she is retaining/strengthening my feet (fallen arch, pronation) and glutes mostly. She recommended stability shoes and something like a Hoka for long walks (optional) and said I would never be able to be in barefoot shoes because of how I’m built (wide hips). So everyone is different. Good luck everyone and sending everyone healing xo

My Dad had flat feet his whole life and I had flat feet as a child. He took me to a shoe store that had a fellow with training in the Thomas heel. I wore shoes with the Thomas heel for five years, and got good arches over that time. I remember Mr. Sines pointing out how the wear on the heels moved slowly over numerous pairs of shoes from the inside to the outside as my pronation disappeared. Still have good arches. The Thomas heel was invented by Hugh Owen Thomas, a Welsh orthopedic Surgeon in the late 1800s. We've had a cure for flat feet that long! I can attest to the effectiveness of the Thomas heel. And the shoes were attractive, normal shoes. Just the shape of the heel was different.

This is helpful to understand how overpronation works. I have a bunion forming on one foot and want to correct it. I'm changing the way I walk because I noticed that, among doing other things that caused it, yes, I do overpronate on that ankle/foot. So I'm making a conscious effort to walk straighter, and with my weight distributed back to the outside of the foot inside of towards the inside. Edited to say no, I don't have particular pain from it.

What if you were born with flat feet, I was born with them and I’ve tried everything it makes me really insecure how much my foot folds in

I really appreciate this video. It eased my worries and gave me a goal to work towards to. Your work and dedication to informing all of us is just incredible!! I hope youtube rewards you in the best way.

Yet another outstanding, informative video!! What is your feeling about the use of “Carbon Plate” inserts used under orthotics? These can be used in multiple shoes! This also stops the bending, but a which is better? The shoe, or an inflexible carbon plate? Thanks 🙏

This was very informative thank you! Hope you don't mind if I ask if there are any differences in the treatment you might suggest for someone with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome/Hypermobility spectrum disorder, or would the treatment options remain the same?

Bro! I just realized that I know you from back when I was in MI! Good to see you getting out there and educating the peoples...

I simply don't understand how as a podiatrist and someone that is supposed to understand feet function, you can still recommend insoles and arch supporters at 2020... I think it is very clear today, and a lot of professionals are gradually shifting to this understanding, that our feet were meant to be free and naked and not ruined buy the tight and rigid shoes that you offer as a solution... If anything, those shoes are the origin of the problem. Then fact that we are introduced to the from before we can even walk is what causes are muscles tendons ligaments and bones to just weekend and loose their natural ability and function. The shoe wear industry is nothing less than an epidemic in my opinion. Not saying flat feet is not a problem. But strentging them, reconnecting to our feet and developing stronger physical awareness of our bodies, while actually spending more time barefoot and active - is definitely a better treatment then orthotics that quite literally destroy our feet function.

Would u recommend exercises , do you think they do increase the arch?

Names of shoes and orthotics? And where to purchase? We’re desperate. In a huge amount of pain, very very flat feet with over pronation. Thank you!! Best video so far regarding this problem.

my foot has hurt so much for most of my life and i have gone to the doc but they could never tell me why. And ive had x rays done and everything..so wow! I just realized the cause of my pain is overpronation.

Never thought I'd be looking at these videos but I have a 11year old who has been in pain for years. Physical therapy, orthopedics aren't working. Two orthopedic surgeons both said *just buy some inserts" it's so frustrating. Trying to find a podatrist or foot and ankle doctor for peds is a pain