Some Good Tips When Buying Athletic Shoes
It doesn’t matter is your just starting out in little league or training for the Olympics, if you don’t have the right shoes for your sport you might not be performing at your best. Or even worse. You could be setting yourself up for some serious injuries. If you want to enhance your performance while also staying safe, you should follow these steps.
- When shopping for your athletic shoes, try them on after a workout or at the end of the day. This way you’ll be trying on shoes when your feet are at their largest. Any smaller and you could end up with some pretty nasty blisters.
- Try on shoes with the same socks that you would wear when you are playing your sport.
- Make sure there’s plenty of wiggle room when you have the shoes on!
- Don’t buy the shoes just because they look cool. If you tell yourself that you can “break them in,” then you probably shouldn’t buy them.
- Test the shoes out – walk around or do a little run in them. Sure, you may look a little silly, but it’s worth knowing that they will be comfortable.
- You should check that the shoe has a nice firm grip around your heel. If it slips around then it could end up falling off of your foot at a bad time or cause painful blisters on your feet.
- Running shoes aren’t enough if you play a specific sport 3 days a week or more. In that case, you’ll need a shoe specific to your sport.
Getting Professional Treatment
It is always our express intent to recommend that you take no chances with foot pain, ankle or knee pain, or injuries. Professional treatment to relieve the pain is available from doctors such as Delray Beach’s Dr. Ian Goldbaum of Delray Beach Podiatry, who has provided us with this blog. If the pain continues, a podiatrist with Dr. Goldbaum’s experience should be consulted. You must get proper treatment to prevent permanent damage.
Our Staff writers are freelance writers with higher education related to, or experience researching and writing for, medical blogs; with education or experience equal to under graduate and graduate degrees in the fields of medicine.
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