A great many products carried by New Balance have pronation control. You may be wearing a pronation control product right now and not really know what that means. So I wanted to take a minute to talk about overpronation and supination.
Firstly, we're not walking on skis. Your feet are not merely a flat surface to push off from but the pivotal force behind our locomotion. There is a lot going on in your shoe that you may never have stopped to think about. There are 206 bones in an adult human, 52 of them are in your feet. As well as 33 joints, 107 ligaments, and 19 muscles that hold everything together.
1.In a perfect gait a person would first make contact with the outside of their heel. You may notice that part of your shoe wears the fastest, because it is the smallest point that receives your full weight. It is also why New Balance reinforces that part of the sole with N-Durance to give it more life.
2.Then the person would pronate slightly to distribute weight across their arch, this type of pronation is normal and everyone does it.
3.Then the person would push off the step with their toe. So their weight is moving from the outside of your heel across to the big toe.
Overpronation occurs when there is too much roll on the inside of the foot. Overpronation will likely be evident by looking at the wear on the sole of your shoes. If the inside is more worn than the rest of the shoe then you overpronate. Great choices for overpronation include the 844, 1223 and 858 depending on the activity you're planning to use them with. The Roll Bar feature (which is a stabilizing piece of graphite in the heel) would really help especially sever overpronaters. Also the Stability Web that is featured in several running styles is great as well.
Supination, also known as underpronation, is the opposite of overpronation where the feet don't roll inward enough. You can tell supination when the outside side of the shoe is more worn than the inside. Wearing the wrong type of shoe, in ether case, can lead to painful shins and joints, or even injury. For extreme Supination I would suggest the 992 and the 587 to give you the support you need. If you only have mild Supination then a supportive neutral shoe (I would try to stay in the 800s or higher) would be great for you like the 1060.
So take a look at an old pair of running shoes and think about how you walk and where you may feel discomfort. Then feel free to peruse our site and check out the benefits of different runner and walking shoes, and please let me know what worked for you.
Below is a useful link for picking out the right shoe from Web MD
Happy Running
Alyssa
http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/how-choose-athletic-shoes?page=1>
