Podiatrist weighs in on best shoes to buy your students while back-to-school shopping

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's back-to-school season, and that means galore families are buying caller outfits for their kids up of the caller year.

Health professionals are informing that erstwhile it comes to shoes, immoderate of the astir sought-after styles whitethorn not beryllium the champion for your feet.

"This is simply a precise fashionable shoe, and it's not truly the astir stable. You tin spot erstwhile you flex it, it's truly flimsy," Dr. Robert Buckenberger, a podiatrist, said.

He's been a podiatrist for 30 years.

He's a board-certified ft surgeon, and he's seen ft and ankle issues successful patients of each ages.

He says that for an mundane shoe, kids and teens should beryllium wearing thing that is unchangeable and not overly flexible.

"This benignant of footwear is simply a batch much stable. So, this would beryllium a much all-around benignant of shoe. It's got bully structure, truthful that's going to clasp up a person's ft overmuch better," Buckenberger said.

Buckenberger says adding insoles tin besides amended footwear function.

He says portion immoderate radical tin tolerate going barefoot, astir radical request support, including erstwhile they're wearing sandals.

"So radical say, 'Well, I don't spell barefoot. I deterioration this,'" Buckenberger said portion demonstrating with a sandal. "Well, you mightiness arsenic good beryllium going barefoot."

Instead, helium says, look for sandals with operation and much support.

Shoes should acceptable your child, but if you're buying a bigger size for them to turn into, Buckenberger says don't acquisition shoes much than fractional oregon 1 size larger.

"We don't privation to person to discarded a batch of wealth erstwhile kids are outgrowing their shoes, but you truly shouldn't spell excessively overmuch larger oregon you suffer footwear relation and past you make symptom anyway," Buckenberger said.

If you're buying secondhand, helium suggests sanitizing them and making definite they're not worn out.

He says the astir important happening is for kids to effort the footwear connected earlier buying it.

"Walk successful the footwear store. Try them on. Make definite they consciousness good," Buckenberger said.

Buckenberger says helium sees a batch of bottommost symptom commencement successful kids betwixt the ages of 11 and 14.

He says that tin beryllium prevented with good, supportive shoes. He besides suggests stretching and icing erstwhile symptoms are present.

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