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Orthopedic footwear by season
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Orthopedic shoes for the season - this is an excellent opportunity for your feet to feel more healthy. But how to choose the right orthopedic shoes for the season, because there are so many offers in the modern market! And suddenly there will be something wrong to choose - autumn orthopedic shoes can radically differ in their properties from half-shoes with sheepskin, which should be worn for colder weather. So, more about shoes for the season.
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Winter and Autumn Orthopedic Shoes
To winter orthopedic shoes include boots, boots (warmed), half boots. Here, perhaps, that's all.
Autumn orthopedic shoes - boots, boots, shoes, ankle boots, shoes. Almost the same, but with the addition of shoes, rather closed, deep and warm. What is characteristic of orthopedic footwear of the winter-autumn season? What are its properties that will serve a person well, save not only from bad weather, but also from diseases?
So, the top of such shoes is the skin, which is breathable and with water-repellent properties. Shoes season winter-autumn should not constrain the leg, especially if it swells and swells. This is typical of people with diabetes, suffering from kidney or urinary tract diseases.
If the orthopedic footwear with lacing, it should not constrain the leg, make it swell even more. Shoes for the cold season, which was made on anatomically correct patterns, will make the movement comfortable, the foot will not tire for a long time.
Is it convenient for you in this model?
To determine if your foot is comfortable with this or that model of winter orthopedic shoes, you need to put on both boots or boots and walk around the store for 15 minutes. If there is no inconvenience, shoes do not press and like - buy. Such shoes are especially good for people who have to actively move around the clock or, on the contrary, stand for hours - sales agents, teachers, sellers, hairdressers. And also for those who quickly formed heel spurs, bones on the legs, corns.
Winter orthopedic shoes are good for children who run a lot (and almost all children run around). Weather - the decisive factor, because of which you need to buy suitable orthopedic shoes with good protection. Please note: many children's orthopedic models of the fall-winter season have high backs that protect the ankle well. If you measure its height, then the back is higher than the ankle approximately 2 cm. This allows the bundles of the foot to feel the protection and support, they do not stretch. Bruising and stretching in such shoes is extremely rare.
Such winter footwear is still good for preventing flat feet, which, according to statistics, suffers from 20 to 30 percent of children. In orthopedic shoes, the correct placement of the foot is ensured, because of which the pedicel is almost never tired during the day. And the depth of orthopedic footwear for winter-autumn is a decisive point. Shoes for the cold season should be deep enough to be able to insert a thick warm insole, protect your foot from frost and cold wind, and rain. Such insoles provide an opportunity to resist flatfoot or stop the process of its development.
This is a big mistake - to believe that winter-autumn orthopedic shoes must necessarily be awkward, not fashionable, blunt, massive. Outwardly, it does not differ from ordinary fashionable and stylish footwear, except that the convenience of the pad and increased stability.
Spring-summer season
Orthopedic shoes for spring and summer are different kinds of sandals and sandals, slippers, light shoes, and spring boots. From autumn-winter shoes, they are distinguished by a lighter construction. But the skin for such orthopedic shoes, as well as the insole, shoe and sole should still be made of high-quality, strong material, which provides not only ease in wearing, but also stability and reliability.
Summer and spring orthopedic footwear with an open heel are clogs, sandals, sandals, shoes. Models for men, women and children are equally convenient and qualitative. If such shoes have a closed sock, it gives the person the opportunity to either hide finger defects, or protect them from damage. Especially the foot of the child, who has to jump and run a lot during the day. Such shoes are very good for walking, it can be used as home. The brightest representatives of summer-spring shoes for home use are slippers or ballet flats.
Shoes that have a well formed shoe, well supports the foot and gives a damping effect, correctly forms a foot, protecting the person from flat feet, does not allow the ankle to quickly get tired.
Summer orthopedic sandals, as a rule, have a well-fortified heel. It protects a man or woman from calluses and corns, fights with a calcaneal spur, reducing pain and discomfort. Orthopedic sandals are usually accompanied by comfortable insole, as well as straps, to adjust the size of the arch of the foot, when it swells or, conversely, decreases in volume. This is especially good for pregnant women, people suffering from diabetes, flat feet, poor kidney function.
In summer shoes like "sabot" we use a convenient design with strap regulation, a closed toe and a soft comfortable insole. Thick skin up to 3 mm makes it possible to perfectly protect the leg from damage and at the same time to allow it to breathe.
| View | Dimensions (cm) |
|---|---|
| for men | 24.5-30.5 |
| for women | 21.0-27.5 |
| for boys (teenage) | 24.5-28.0 |
| for girls (teenage) | 22.5-25.5 |
| for schoolchildren-boys (school) | 20.5-24.0 |
| for school girl-girls (school) | 20.5-23.5 |
| for preschoolers | 17.0-20.0 |
| small child | 14.5-16.5 |
| booties | 9.5-12.5 |
| hussariki | 10.5-14.0 |
Remember that when choosing orthopedic shoes for the season, you do not pay for quality materials and comfortable construction, but for the health of your feet and the body as a whole. The correct orthopedic shoes are shoes made of genuine leather. Well-made models of shoes are easily bent, they are plastic, strong, provide airflow to the legs and evaporation of excess moisture. Do not buy so-called medical shoes, the details of which are rubber, leatherette, plastic - with orthopedic footwear it has nothing in common.