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Some introduction first, but you can skip it immediately if you want to get directly to the point. :)

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I live in Poland - a country which is still less developed in some areas than many so called "western countries". I can give you an example from the runner's point of view. In germany, which is our nearest western neighbour about 100 thousand people regularly participate in marathons (I will refrain from commenting if running marathons is good or bad, that's is not the issue here). In Poland - this number is somewere between 3-5 thousand.
So this is 20 - 30 times less than Germany. But - Poland is only 2,5 times smaller than Germany (number of people living in a country). So it seems obvious - that we are developing and I can see it.
The thing is that I want to help in this development. So I'm promoting running.
But to promote running - you have to promote appropriate approach toward running shoes - peaople must understand - which shoe may be good for them.
And here there may be a problem in the judgment. Foot analysis. As the market has not developed yet, we don't have many specialists experienced in foot anaysis focused on runners. We have podiatrists. But - not much experience with running.

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Many of you are probabbly often analysing some runner's feets. There are plenty of places in the world (USA, UK, Australia, Germany, etc) where you can go and have your foot analysed with focus on running. This is done in some retail shops, in some special clinics sometimes. I realised - that there are many sophisticated equipment used for it very often.
There are even some companies specialising in it.

What is your opinion on it? Can you say that you can equally good analyse foot's needs without these super hi-tec equipment? Is a static foot analysis equally good to dynamic when performed by a specialist? Is it just a matter of good eye and experience ? And can I assume that my, Polish podiatrists will be able to analyse runners foots without these ? Or are these equipments made for those who have no knowledge and experience in foot analysis so these are infact "authomatic podiatrists"?

I don t really think that this is a "discrete and clever" way of doing promotion of this currex company and i am confident that podiatry does not exist in Poland

podomania

As I am not aware of standards on this forum - I deleted the link, however - it still exist in your post.

Podiatry does not exist in Poland ? What makes you think so ?
And you - or anybody did not comment the main issue: is the hight-tec foot analysis worth what they (high-tec guys) say what it is worth?

My focus is one - give a runner a clear information: you should choose this type of shoe or have yourselve made a "tailored made" orthotix and fit them into a cushion or stability shoe.

there are times when we have to embrace technology and there are times to run and hide from it,
I started using biomechanical profiling software over a year back, it has offered a better service for my clients and as yet i have not had a single problem with people getting duff results. the system uses sound biomechanical principles to give a profile of the client, [I have tried to beat the system and failed every time...complex algorithm or something techy like that]

one of the other reasons i use it is whilst i am not sure about the other readers on here but I certainly do not have time to keep up to date with the 1900 or so shoes/ updates that are released onto the market every 6 months.

I guess it all depends on what you are trying to achieve, what i want is to find the root cause of the problem/injury, and give the client a solution [shoe /orthotic/ workout program] The physios at 2 local football clubs are showing great interest in the system we use as we can screen their players and give them quantifiable results.

Do i think it works? yes, some may disagree.
Was it worth the money? almost certainly, the version i use also offeres me a great database facility, the print out i give to the client has the entire analysis and excercises clearly laid out with nice pictures, i find that if you give people a program in writing they may actually do it, tell them what to do and it gets forgotten before they leave the clinic.
Would I recomend it? yes, if you are dealing with a lot of runners then it makes life really easy