Pronated feet fixable via leg workout?

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Most of my reading about pronated feet has been all about

orthodics-orthodics-orthodics. Can strengthening certain leg muscles
help the situation - like strengthening one's inner quads to ameliorate

jumper's knee?

My shoes show outward pronation (outside worn out). I have a stress
fracture of my fibula, and I'm wondering if there is some way to get
stress off of that side as the fibula supports the outer stress when I
start rehabbing.

Thanks for your responses.>

My experience. After ramping up my mileage to 9 per day I pronated
badly, so stuck with Asics 2000 series for years, not trying anything
else. Then this year I bought some NB 807's, and lo and behold, I no
longer pronate. Why I don't know. I do several figure 8's in both
directions, and some jogging backwards, but if that helped or not I'm
not sure. I still pronate some days, but not others, but unlike you it
causes me no injurys, so it's a non-issue until it does.
On orthotics: Those are a LAST RESORT, only after you've tried various
brands and models of all kinds of MC and stability shoes. Avoid them if
possible.

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My experience. After ramping up my mileage to 9 per day I pronated
badly, so stuck with Asics 2000 series for years, not trying anything
else. Then this year I bought some NB 807's, and lo and behold, I no
longer pronate.

That's because those bricks are so damn heavy that it's nearly impossible
to run in them at all, let alone pronate in them.

NB 807s are good for the SSFA crowd.

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Why I don't know. I do several figure 8's in both
directions, and some jogging backwards,

Yep, when you were in the Asics, they said, "if you were going any slower,
you'd be going backwards". And then you got the 807s.

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/

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Most of my reading about pronated feet has been all about
orthodics-orthodics-orthodics. Can strengthening certain leg muscles
help the situation - like strengthening one's inner quads to ameliorate
jumper's knee?

I don't think so.

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My shoes show outward pronation (outside worn out). I have a stress

What sort of shoes are you wearing ? If you're breaking down the lateral
(outside) of the shoe, you should avoid anything with a medial post.

How old are your shoes ? If you allow an uneven wear pattern to
accumulate, it will aggravate any biomechanical problems you may already
have.

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fracture of my fibula, and I'm wondering if there is some way to get
stress off of that side as the fibula supports the outer stress when I
start rehabbing.

The first two things you can do to avoid breaking down the lateral side
of the shoe are very basic:
(1) If you're wearing the wrong sort of shoe, change to the right sort of
shoe. "The right sort of shoe" means a well cushioned shoe without a medial
post. Both the injury and wear pattern point to "cushion" shoes as being
appropriate.

(2) That, and don't wear old shoes. One you get substantial breakdown of
the lateral side of the shoe, the shoe no longer sits flat, and it aggravates
the underlying assymetry in your gate. It's like a bad feedback loop --
you run off-balance, which breaks down the lateral side, which throws you
off some more, which ...

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/

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My shoes show outward pronation

Nobody's said it, but this "outward pronation" is typically called
"supination" and considered pronation's opposite. So if you're reading
about shoe choices vs. biomechanics, that's the term on which to focus.

As Donovan says, usual rec is to seek "cushion" and "neutral" and be
wary of anything that sounds like "medial post", "dual density", or
"stability".