Daily Health Tips: 8 tips for buying shoes that are good to your feet

Tips for shoes that are useful to your feet

Buying the right shoes is an investment in foot health.

However, how would you find ones that fit appropriately and provide sufficient support?

Daily Health Tips: Start with your own feet and look at what's already in your closet, recommends Harvard Medical School. Stand barefoot on a bit of cardboard or paper, and trace the shape of every foot. Now take your shoes, one by one, and place them on top of the drawing. In case you're similar to the vast majority, your "comfortable" shoes will closely coordinate the outline of your own feet.

Identify the shoes that cause pain. In case you're a woman, most of these will be shoes with high heels or narrow toes. Check to see if the toe of the shoe is shorter or narrower than your own toes.

When you're ready to supplant some of that uncomfortable footwear, these tips can assist:

1:         Hold up until the afternoon to shop for shoes - your feet naturally grow with use during the day and may swell in hot weather.

2:         Wear the same kind of socks that you intend to wear with the shoes.

3:         Stand in the shoes. Make sure you have no less than a quarter- to a half-inch of space between your longest toe and the shoe's end.

4:           Have the salesman measure both of your feet - and get measured each time you buy new shoes. If one foot is wider or larger than the other, buy a size that fits the larger foot.

5:         Walk around in the shoes to decide how they feel. Is there enough room at the balls of the feet? Do the heels fit cozily, or do they slip off or pinch? Try not to rationalize that the shoes just need to be "broken in" or that they'll stretch with time - Health Tips. Find shoes that fit from the begin.

6:         Trust your own comfort level rather than a shoe's description or size. Sizes change starting with one manufacturer then onto the next. And no matter how comfortable an Ad claims those shoes are, you're the real judge.

7:         Feel the inside of the shoes to see if they have any seams, tags, or other material that may irritate your cause blisters or feet.

8:        Turn the shoes over and examine the soles. Is it accurate to say that they are sufficiently tough to give assurance from sharp objects? Do they give any cushioning? Additionally, take the sole test as you walk around the shoe store: do the soles cushion against effect? Try to walk on hard surfaces as well as carpet to see how the shoes feel.