How do you cure flat feet?

Answer 1

flat feet are for life. However, you can buy shoes that give you more of an arch

Answer 2

You can't cure flat feet. The best thing you can do is to make sure that you wear shoes with an arch support or buy the arch support inserts.

Answer 3

If you find out how to cure flat feet in adults, please let me know! :-)

The reading I have done on the subject indicates that this is pretty hard to do at any age, to "cure" flat feet or create an arch, but once you are an adult, I think your chances of finding a cure other than surgery are slim to none once the bones of the foot have stopped growing and solidified in place. From that point on, I think it's usually one of two things, either your arch/flatfoot remains the same, or gets even flatter. Otherwise, I think the only solution is surgery, but I hear this can be quite successful, and there are some recent developments with implants which apparently are not as invasive as the old ways of constructing an arch in a flat foot.

But unless you really hate having a flat foot, or are subject to a lot of pain, surgery seems like a bit of overkill. Is it so bad having a flat foot? I would really like to help change society's impression that a flat foot is so bad to have/ugly.

Based on my personal experience, if your feet are still growing, you might be able to develop an arch on your own. As a kid, I had pretty normal arches as far as I can remember, but when I was a young teen, my right foot became totally flat to the point where my sole was resting 100% on the ground. It freaked me out the first time I realized it. After it happened, I looked at my shoes, and realized the right ones were all caved in to the inside, what I now know to be excessive pronation, and I realized I had developed some bad walking habits. But by making a determined effort to not let my foot pronate, and by doing exercises, I actually was able over the next couple of years to raise my arch, not so you'd notice much, but at least the footprint looked normal again.

Probably I was predisposed to have flat feet, because when I took up running in high school, my left foot flattened out some, which was actually ok with me, because then they didn't look so different. :-) I now know it's not so unusual to have one flat foot, one arched foot, but I felt totally weird about it as a young teen.

I have always looked for an answer to your question, because I think it's better for your body bio-mechanics to have a good arch in your foot. But by now, I'm mostly OK with the way my feet are (although I'm still ridiculously foot shy about it--it puts me immediately back in touch with those awkward teen feelings again). Since my condition stabilized in a pretty flatfooted way and they are no longer painful, I actually like the way my feet feel. In fact, I really came to like feeling my sole making complete contact with the ground, even though at first I hated the way it looked. Recently, after being stable for a long time, although there's no change in my left foot (low arch), my right foot started getting flatter again, to the point now that it's about as flat as a board again :-), but I'm mostly cool with that. But I have to admit I haven't given up on the idea of reclaiming my arches! :-)

I created my ID for the same reason a gay person calls himself queer--I decided I had been embarrassed about it long enough, and it's time to say, "I'm flat, I'm out, I'm proud, get used to it!" LOL

Answer 4

Other than surgical alternatives that are expensive and painful, the only thing is arch supports, and they don't "cure" or "fix" it, they just give your feet more support....

Answer 5

You can't. You can only buy special insoles from places like boots or specialist shops. I use either orthaheel or sorbothane insoles to replace the shoe insoles.
I also tend to wear trainers with the insoles mentioned as trainers are more supportive.

Answer 6

u could try to wear arch supports or buying shoes that have very good support in them, im a flat foot myself!

Answer 7

Chop them off and get a wheelchair!

Answer 8

No cure.
Do not wear high heels.

Answer 9

bend them

Answer 10

http://www.bofss.org.uk/html/flat_feet.shtml

Try this site, hope it helps.