Shoe wear patterns

Shoes can come in many sizes, shapes and types- ranging from motion control to minimalist. That’s a good thing because runner’s feet also come in many many types- ranging from the really high arched to the absolutely-fully flat on the ground- flat footed. Since all my patients who are runners are put through a mandatory shoe check, I end up examining tons of shoes. So you can safely say that I have seen tons of features and noticed the eccentricities that the shoes can have after some mileage. This brings me to the topic at hand. Shoe wear patterns.

Shoe wear patterns are the wearing away of the shoe that happens inside, outside or both. To the untrained eye, this may seem like a minor fact; you may not even be able to see the pattern.