That's what makes a new study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine so compelling. In short, the researchers found that the comfort of a pair of shoes doesn't vary with price. They compared nine pairs of exercise shoes from three different manufacturers, ranging in price from about $80 to nearly $160. The 43 participants in the study were not told how much the shoes cost, and were asked to rate the comfort of the shoes. Overall, there were no major differences among the shoes, irrespective of brand or price. In fact, plantar pressure was lower in the cheap to moderately priced shoes, although this difference was not statistically significant. Comfort ratings varied considerably, but there were no obvious differences among the shoes. And price was no indicator of comfort score. The bottom line? When shopping for shoes, don't be swayed by a flashy swoosh. Listen to your feet. Please enable JavaScript to view the Featured Perspectives by Versa. We geeks and scientists usually fall for this simplistic view that performance or measurable outcomes or features is all that matters when buying. Brand recognition is the strongest driver for sales. There is a reason why the apple logo lights up in a Powermac. One of the basic needs of humans, according to Maslow, is the need for belonging to a bigger group. If you position your brand nicely, people will buy your stuff because they want to belong in that group. Again, there a reason why all apple ads are cool and the pcs are presented as dorky. So yes, most geeks and rationalists would buy a car because of the MPGs, utility, price/feature ratio, security rating whatever. But almost everybody making enough money will buy a beemer, a corvette regardless of the fact that a subaru or a renault has better performance, more features and is cheaper. they want to belong and letting everybody else that they belong. Price is not always a factor, but I guarantee you that for a runner, you be better off with a good pair of Nikes than a no name $15 sneaker you find at the local sporting goods mega shop. The $15 sneaker might be perfectly comfortable for walking around, but try running miles and miles in it. There a reason good running shoes are expensive and it not the fancy swooshes it because they help cushion your foot and add motion control specific to your running style. A few years ago when training for a marathon, I started having knee pain. Went to the running store, they watched me run, and I switched to a different pair of shoes. The knee pain vanished. Those shoes are being produced in sweat shops around the world, especially in China and Asia. People are being paid a few cents an hour or maybe even just a bowl of rice a day to manufacture something idiots here are paying $80 to $160 to put on their feet! The manufacturers are pilfering our pockets with sweatshop labor on one end, and outrageous prices on the other. They are draining the US Piggy bank. And the CEOs of such companies are riding in limos, attending Red Carpet events and rubbing elbows with rock stars, movie stars and other global parasite shoes are in the same class as $1,000 pop concert tickets. shoes are being produced in sweat shops around the world, especially in China and Asia. you have to consider that those are developing countries. They do not have our physical, educational, and economic infrastructure in place. In many families in those countries most of the children will work in order to send one of the children to school and college with the idea that that childs better position will then pay for the others to get educations and better jobs and so on. They are pulling themselves up by thier bootstraps. sweatshops), to education and a better life for those workers go under. It is not reasonable to apply Western standards to developing world needs. I was working on a sporting goods design project and during this process spent some time inside a running shoe design studio near LA several years ago. The technology involved is substantial and the art of design detail is intense. In the $100+ price range there is simply no good reason for designers to those goods developed for the bottom of that range versus those intended for the top of the range. They pretty much apply current design idioms to everything they do. In fact, they often design on spec and present their complete portfolio of concept drawings to the company more designs than are actually selected for production. Some really there stuff they are sure will not get picked up. Just to make their next generation ideas seem more reasonable. They don know which ones will end up as high priced short runs and which will become lower priced high runners (pun intended). I was a serious runner. Through college and for a while after. My feet are sacred. I don care at all about price. But I know immediately if a shoe is right for me. Most are not. I almost never spend $100 because there are more great choices in the middle of the range and there is simply no reason to ever pay full price. I generally stand and fight. 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Friday, led, 31 20, to begin the second half and increased its advantage thanks to its defense.Freshman guard Kelly Fradet connected on the final bucket of the first half for the Tologs (8 5) with a 10 foot jumper with 29 seconds left that cemented the 11 point deficit.From that bucket forward, Flintridge Sacred Heart was held scoreless until fellow freshman guard Casey Johnson sank a similar 10 footer with 2:23 remaining in the third.The basket broke an 0 for 10 stretch for the Tologs, who had been outscored, 7 0, and trailed, 38 22, after the basket.talked about getting better with our man to man and help defense, Cormier said. had a spurt there where everyone did their job and we opened up the game. the Tologs scored the next bucket and free throw on a three point play from Johnson, La Salle closed the quarter with a 7 3 run capped on an 18 foot jumper from Crystal Haynes (assisted by Celeste Brown) at the buzzer that gave the Lancers a 45 28 lead.In the first quarter, even though La Salle shooting (five for 13) was better than that of Flintridge Sacred Heart (four for 16), the Tologs only trailed 13 12 because of their hustle and, in particular, their offensive rebounding.Flintridge Sacred Heart picked up five offensive rebounds, which led to eight points.However, Flintridge Sacred Heart 9 5 offensive rebounding edge in the first half dissipated over the finals 16 minutes as the Tologs only picked up two offensive rebounds. Friday. for the second game in a row, like we did last night against Hart, our effort and energy just weren the same in the second half. needs to change before Mission League play starts. Salle created separation in the second quarter, winning the period, 18 8, thanks in part to eight of 10 points from junior forward Brianna Rodriguez.didn play good defense first of all. We also weren shooting well and we were sloppy, said Rodriguez, who added eight rebounds. we started to run and that helped get us going and we were able to run them out of the building. Kandyce Smith led La Salle with 11 points, while guard Caroline Knop added 10 points and six rebounds and Sierra Bononi tallied seven points, seven rebounds and two blocks. Men Nike Free Run 2 Green White Turquoise,However, we reserve the right to delete inappropriate comments or ban users who can't play nice. (See our full terms of service here.) Here are some rules of the road: Keep your comments civil. 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Standing for long periods of time and weight pressure increases the stress on the ligaments. Therefore, if you are over weight, it increases your chances for plantar fascitis. Of course, if your job requires you to stand all day, it increases your susceptibility to foot tendinitis. Many different sporting activities are potential hazards for the feet: tennis = long periods of standing, plus a great deal of sudden starts and stops, increases the stress on the plantar ligaments. Similar problems with handball, racquet ball and squash. Twisted ankles inward (inversion) or outward (eversion), This disturbs the normal weight distribution over the bottom surface of the foot. It can, on occasion, adversely affect the Achilles tendon. Then there is the aging process: As we age the tendons and ligaments lose some elasticity and tone. They therefore tighten, and cause pain. The purpose of any therapy that hopes to deliver lasting results is to increase the elasticity (bounce back ability) of the tendon or ligament. Our therapy does just that! And it can be accomplished at home! Present day therapies include: Orthotics (arches). However, many tendinitis victims have been "turned off" by orthotics. Why? Because they put the orthotics in their shoes, and expect to walk off into the sunset, and never have a problem again!!! There is a right way, and a wrong way to use arches. Cortisone shots, especially if there is a calcium spur. The spur itself does not cause the foot pain, because it faces forward, not downward. The soft tissue around the spur becomes inflamed and produces the pain. This is why cortisone shots deliver temporary help. The root cause of the foot pain is the plantar fascitis. Always remember that plantar fascitis (as well as all other forms of tendinitis or ligamentosis) likes to become chronic. Chronic means it doesn't totally want to leave your body. It tends to return again and again. If that happens, don't dispair! Treat it with our home therapy, and it will behave! A heel spur can develop as a direct result of the pulling and tugging of the plantar ligaments on the front lower part of the heel bone. (calcaneus). The spur always faces forward, so it dies not cause the pain of the bottom of the foot near the heel. Men Nike Free Run 2 Green White Turquoise It's the closest most of us will ever come to being an athlete. But aside from its familiar moniker, athlete's foot or tinea pedis really has nothing to do with sports. It's simply an infection caused by a fungus known as Trichophyton. That fungus lives on your skin but typically loses its ongoing battle with bacteria that also call your epidermis home. A locker room is the perfect atmosphere for Trichophyton to grow, but any hot, damp place will do and once athlete's foot takes hold, it can create dry, raw and highly itchy skin. The infection can even occur on the scalp, leading to hair loss, or in the groin area an unpleasant occurrence described as "jock itch." Fortunately there are many solutions to the problem. Stay dry. It seems counterintuitive to keep your feet dry when they're already itching and cracking, but it's dark and damp atmospheres that the fungus loves. If you have cracking in between your toes, then you may also have an infection involving bacteria. Put your feet in a mixture of iodine and warm water for about 20 minutes each day. Commercials can promise a lot of things and fail to deliver, but over the counter remedies for athlete's foot are often quite effective. Creams tend to work best. Once your feet have been cleaned and dried, use medications such as undecylenic acid (Desenex), tolnaftate (Tinactin), or miconazole (Micatin). It's like returning to the scene of the crime. Putting fungus filled shoes on the feet you're trying to protect is asking for trouble. Focus on prevention. Wash out your shower or bathtub with antiseptic after each use. If you shower in a locker room, wear flip flops to minimize contact with the publicly used surface. Don't assume the problem is gone because the symptoms have disappeared. Treatment needs to be continued for three to six weeks to completely remove the fungus. If you don't want to buy or use over the counter medications, consider soaking your feet in a mixture of water and vinegar each evening. The ratio should be 1 cup (227 milliliters) of vinegar to 2 quarts (1.8 liters) of water. A 15 to 30 minute soak will do the trick. Saltwater can also be effective. Mix 1 teaspoon (4.9 milliliters) of salt per cup of warm water. 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