♪ Bob and Brad ♪ ♪ The two most famous ♪ ♪ Physical therapists ♪ ♪ On the internet ♪ - Hi folks, I'm Bob
Schrupp, physical therapist. - Brad Heineck, physical therapist. - 'Cause we are the most
famous physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- This video is a part of a series of
videos on plantar fascitis. Go to BobAndBrad.com for the entire series and you'll, you'll have enlightenment. Today we're gonna talk about
types of shoes you should wear with plantar fascitis. Basically, with plantar fascia, remember, the plantar fascia helps
form the arch of your foot. - Right.
- And generally, you're gonna wanna have a
shoe with good arch support. So you may be, even if
you're not a runner, or if you haven't been a walker, you may wanna get a shoe that is a walking shoe or a running shoe. - Sure, right.
- Because they have great arch supports in a lot of these. - That doesn't mean that
you should have a high arch. If you're a flat-footed person, you're not gonna get a
high arch and force it. So you need support
that matches your foot. - Right and so we're gonna
show ya a test right now that you can do to help determine kinda what foot you have. So basically, you could take a, you could take a bag, a paper bag, or you could take a vanilla folder here, a vanilla envelope here. - (laughing) Right. Lot of times, like a, a grocery bag, one of
those brown bags you get at the grocery store work really nice. - [Bob] Work really well. I'm just gonna go ahead and
put my foot in some water here, and I'm gonna go ahead
and put it on top of the, the envelope and then I'm
gonna put some weight on it. And after it's all said and done, you can actually see the imprint. Now we, mine's really crude. Brad did a lot better job on his, but. This is my arch and you
can see my arch is so high, it doesn't even connect on
the outside of the foot even at some point. The arch is, I really do have a high arch. - So this is his heel,
his toes are up here. And that, that connect, that's... Put your foot up there once, Bob. - Up where?
- Right up so they can see it. - Oh yeah.
- Yeah. So there's a section
right here, doesn't even-- - Touch, right.
- Contact very much. - [Brad] I've got such a high arch. - Right.
- And you've got about a medium. - Right, so you can see.
- You've got a more normal arch, I would say.
- I've got much more contact to the paper here. And if you got a flat foot,
you're gonna have a wet spot and it's gonna look like-- - Yeah, that spot's gonna get fit, the arch is gonna get filled
in if you have a flat foot. That is gonna be wet all
the way through here. - Yup and then you know
you're definitely flat-footed if it fills all the way across like that. - So, Brad, if you wanna
show ours, compared, mine compared to yours.
- Oh sure, right. Right. - So I do have more of
an arch than Brad does. Now this means I have a rigid foot. This is not necessarily good, but it's gonna determine what kind of shoe I wanna wear. And he has a normal arch. Now, with a, a flat foot, you actually have more of a flexible foot. There may be some laxity
in the ligaments there. And it absorbs stress better, to some extent. Because it spreads the forces out.
- Sometimes too much. (laughing)
- But sometimes too much, right. - So you can see, I can get this marker way under Bob's arch and mine I can just, just get it in and if
someone was flat foot, you wouldn't even be able to get your little finger in there. - Right, so let's go over some
of the types of shoes, Brad. The problem with shoes is
there's not a standard, standardization among the
shoes, is there, Brad? - Right, well there is motion control, stability and then cushions
is kind of there, but-- - Kind of the three.
- To get to detail, with the exception of this
store that we went here, we went the Rogan's. They have 31 stores in the Midwest, and they're actually
developing their own system across the brands, but-- - From one to five.
- Right, but it's not, it's not worldwide or in the
United States, it's standard. So you have to learn how to do this. - So this is just a generality here. Okay now if you have a
rigid foot like I do, with a high arch, you're generally go with what we call a cushioned shoe. Now a cushioned shoe, it actually has just what it says. It's very cushioned.
- Right, soft. - One test you can do on a cushioned shoe, you can often take it. Now this one's not a
complete cushioned shoe, but it's a pretty good one. You can grab the heel and the forefoot and you can actually twist it, wring it, almost like a rag. The other test you can
do is you grab the heel and the forefoot and you bend like this and it actually bends right in the arch. So there's not a lot of support here, it's just a lot of cushioning. So go to the second shoe in the list here. This is the one I actually do wear. This one's for someone who has, would have either a normal arch, or maybe a little bit of a pronator. For whatever reason, it works for me. I probably could go with
more of a cushioned shoe. Now with this one, it actually does have a
plastic portion in here. That's, maintains the arch. If I push on here like this, you can see it doesn't
bend in the arch at all. - [Brad] Right, so it's stable right here. - [Bob] It's stable here on both sides. It actually even have a
little plastic there too. - [Brad] But it does get forgiving and flexes in the forefoot, which you'll see on the
motion control's not the case. - Right and you can't twist this one. It just, it isn't gonna happen. You can take your fingers
and you can point it, push in here, it's a
little bit softer here, but it's hard plastic there. All right, now we go
to the motion control. Now this is a heavier shoes, first off. It's kind of like a
Herman Munster shoe here. But if I try to bend this, I can hardly bend this at all. It's very stiff. This is for a severe
pronator, I would say. - In other words, if
you're really flat-footed, and things are startin' to collapse in, when you put weight on and this falls in, and your ankle bone here
is startin' to drift towards the floor, you want
some good support there so you don't have severe
problems down the road. - Right so again now, you
can feel this is really tough material in here. And with all these, you're gonna wanna, it should feel good right
away, when the shoe. You shouldn't have to break into it. You wanna be able to find
a shoe that it feels good the day you put it on. And just because you
are a severe pronator, doesn't mean you're gonna
need a motion control. You might get by with a stability. You've gotta experiment around with it. - But at least you know and there are some sales people that really know their shoes and some that don't. (chuckles) - Right, the idea is, the
point of this whole video is we wanted to show you
there are different shoes, so you wanna make sure
that you try different ones to see which one works best for you. - So plan on trying a number of shoes on. And actually get up and walk with-- - Walkin' around in the store.
- Don't just try 'em on and stand on 'em, you need to walk. - I even run in the
store, if you're a runner. I actually--
- I can just see (laughing) vroom, back and forth. (laughing) - I think some places have treadmills that I've gone to.
- That, well there was one in La Crosse and then
they went out of business for some reason. (laughing) But I always say you should
have a treadmill in here and they never put one in at
the store I go to. (laughing) - All right, go ahead and watch, keep watchin' this program, this series of programs because, this series of videos, I should say 'cause it'll give you the
answers to all your needs for plantar fascitis.
- You better believe it. - Thanks for watching.
- Enjoy.
