Shoe Bottom Leveling Matters

Using Feet Balance Orthotics in shoes w/ tilted bottoms in sideways tilts your anklebones again. Then your foot & major joints are getting damaged again. Also, shoes should have at least slightly higher heel than the front as they put the body weight on the arch area. Negative heel shoes (the heel is lower than the front even slightly) puts your body weight  mostly on the heel, & those shoes make you fail the Anklebone Alignment test.

Fortunately, if the shoes tilt the anklebones, then our body sends a warning signal to level the shoe bottoms w/ pain in the foot, knee, hip, lower back, or shin splint & other leg muscle tendonitis — the common symptoms of tilted anklebones.  It’s often due to shoes that are unknowingly sloped—most commonly tilted toward the lateral side (the pinky toe side).

How to Fix It

Titled shoe bottoms cannot be detect by just looking at them. We can find out with Anklebone Alignment test (AA test). Shoe bottoms mostly tilt to the lateral side (the pinky toe side) of the shoes, and you can correct this tilt by adding thin leveling strips (postcard thickness) inside your shoes—on the lower side, typically the lateral (pinky toe) side. First, find out how many strips are needed to level the shoe bottoms by doing the AA test with a postcard thickness paper under the lateral side of the shoes, and if you fail the test add a second paper, and still fail? Then add a third one. That’s it. Shoe bottoms tilt from 1 postcard thickness to 3 postcard thickness, which is very minuscule —  less than a half millimeter to one millimeter. You will be able to find out how many strips make you pass the AA test. Then you cut the paper into strips. These strips should be:

  • About 2 cm wide

  • 1 cm longer than your orthotics

& Place them inside the shoe—on the side that was lower (usually the lateral side). And do the AA Test again to make sure the shoe bottom are correctly leveled.

Even a difference of less than 1 millimeter can shift your alignment enough to affect your test results and your joint comfort.

Important Note:

Over 60% of shoes are manufactured with tilted bottoms, often to the lateral side. So when buying new shoes, always insert your orthotics and perform the AA Test to make sure the shoes don’t throw off your alignment.

 

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