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Orthotics - Good or Bad?

by Lenny Parracino
Date Released : 25 May 2006

Question:

I have a client who has been using orthotics when running for about a year now. She was advised to wear them after suffering bursitis at the hip joint during training for the London Marathon. She has never been comfortable running in them, and we now feel she is in a "catch 22" situation. Do we throw the orthotics away and run naturally or has her body become reliant on them? Will we be causing more problems than we are trying to solve, or have we done that already? In short: Orthotics - good or bad?

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