| Wobbly is not good for you. Wobbly is instability and | | | | precisely you can reduce that motion without |
| inefficiency. Injuries will occur where you are most | | | | over-correcting, the better the alignment position of |
| vulnerable to your wobble.The arch is a space and | | | | the foot and entire lower extremity to the |
| regardless of how big or small that space you have | | | | ground.This correction in efficiency will absolutely |
| within it pronation, excessive pronation | | | | reduce and in many instances reverse problems |
| (AKA-hypermobility), over-pronation, hyper-pronation | | | | completely. Even for people with irreversible chronic |
| and supination motions.The more the arch space | | | | problems, a proper fitting orthotic can help greatly. |
| compresses/falls during pronation (whether you are | | | | Because at the very least, a proper fitting orthotic |
| high arched or flat footed), the more the rest of the | | | | provides a health benefit, just like brushing teeth (i.e. |
| foot up to the low back becomes bio-mechanically | | | | prevention rather than cure) and more than likely pain |
| wobbly. This is natural bio-mechanical weakness that | | | | will reduce (provided the problem(s) are biomechanical |
| comes from over pronation and produces the wear | | | | in nature.)Stabilizing the body from being too wobbly |
| and tear eventually seen as plantar fasciitis, Achilles | | | | should be the major goal of any functional orthotic. In |
| tendonitis, knee, ITB, hip/low back pain, bunions, | | | | addition:Any functional orthotic must be easy and |
| neuromas, hammertoes, Tarsal Tunnel, etc, etc.These | | | | comfortable to wear: |
| injuries are years in the making. How soon and where | | | | |
| the injury comes to the surface depends on a | | | | It must not cause anything else to hurt. |
| variety of factors such as the twists and turns and | | | | It must not over correct the foot on the ground. |
| angles of your bone development, weight, activities, | | | | It should support and balance each foot for the |
| and, of course your overpronation as it affects your | | | | greatest mechanical efficiency. |
| bio-mechanics.In order to minimize wobble, you have | | | | It should match the way your muscles work and not |
| to minimize the motion of the arch. The more | | | | just the shape of the foot. |