Run Safe – Buy a Running Shoe with Shock Absorbing Padding
The Benefits and Risks of Running
It’s widely known that running is one of the most valuable and simple exercises to ensure overall body health. If you have chosen to run for your health, it’s important, however, that you know all the details on how to run safely to ensure that you maximize the benefits and minimize the risks. The impact of running on city streets can wreak havoc on your feet, ankles and knees, and assuring that you are wearing shoes with shock-absorbing padding to reduce the impact of running on asphalt.
What Shock Absorbing Insoles Can Do For Runners
Sneakers with insoles manufactured specifically for running are made to protect your feet and knees from all high-impact activities, such as walking, running, and track and field events. The pressure on your lower extremities increases by large amounts during physical activity, creating a scenario where injury to the legs, knees, or back becomes very common. If the shoes you are wearing during these activities do not feature shock absorbing padding to provide you with enough cushion, you run the risk of injury and are likely to find yourself uncomfortable while exercising.
Adaptive Technology to Protect the Foot
Shock absorbing padding in shoes and insoles is typically made of a specialized rubber, foam, or gel, and includes a generous amount of arch support to protect the foot. Because of the visceral nature of the shock absorbent padding in insoles, your foot will ease into the shoe over time, allowing it to curve and shape itself to precisely match your foot, providing you with additional protection. Custom made insoles are available for the serious runner who has a few extra dollars to spend on their running accessories, though it’s not completely necessary for all runners to have custom soles made.
Orthopedic Applications Beyond Running
If you have already sustained an injury such as a pulled muscle, ankle sprain, or shin splint, some foot health professionals will likely recommend using insoles for everyday use, and not just for your running activities. Using quality shock absorbing padding in your day-to-day shoes can not only protect you against possible injury but can also assist your body in healing from a former injury, and increase your chances of being able to run again more quickly.
Decrease Impact and Stress on the Legs
Clearly, there are many benefits to purchasing sneakers that are made primarily for running or high impact activities. Even if you’ve never experienced injury or body pain from walking or running, shock absorbing padding in your sneakers – either as a part of an existing shoe or purchased separately as an insole, can be helpful in prolonging your body’s ability to exercise in a high impact manner by decreasing the amount of impact stress on your knees and feet.
Sustaining the Ability to Exercise
Proper running shoes or insoles assure that shock absorption padding is giving your body the impact stress relief it deserves and increasing your body’s chances of being able to exercise later in life. Injuries to the feet, knees, or back as a result of impact damage lessens your chances of exercise longevity, and we all know that a well-cared-for body will ensure a long, happy life.
Let Sorbothane Assist your Running
Interested in including Sorbothane technology in your physical therapy solutions? Protect runners’ knees and feet and prolong their running career by Contacting us today to learn more.