Quote Originally Posted by pll View Post
I suffered the consequences of being recommended a motion control shoe once --- 3 runs with those shoes followed by 1.5 years of plantar fasciitis. Never again!
I'm still dealing with plantar fasciitis that I developed after being put in motion control shoes at a local running specialty store. Actually, they did this twice.

A few months after buying the initial pair of shoes from them, I started developing shin splints and heel tightness, so I went back in and explained what was going on. (They were the "experts" after all, right?) So, they put me in a shoe with even more motion control. And that's when my already problematic knees went to hell, I strained a hip, and the plantar fasciitis came on full force and I was barely able to walk most mornings. Needless to say, I stopped trying to run.

Five months later, I read Born To Run and decided to give neutral shoes a try. They worked. I can run now (still very, very slowly), and only have the very occasional PF flare-up (and it's never as painful as it was before...just some tightness and a little twinge-y pain) which isn't necessarily connected to the days I run.

My S.O., on the other hand, has to have some pretty hefty motion control shoes or he can't run at all. Before he started using them, he had chronic shin pain and even stress fractures. But no issues in the 4+ years since.