Cover storyWe Spent £412 Testing The 4 Most Popular Insoles Through 12-Hour Shifts. The £24.99 Outsider Won.
The winner was the only pair that felt the same in hour twelve as it did in hour two, thanks to its four-zone support system.
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Buying GuidesThe Best Compression Socks for Long Shifts: Four Worth Your Money
Graduated compression is a simple idea done well or badly. Four that do it well, at four very different price points, and the group who should ask a GP first.
Buying GuidesAnti-Fatigue Mats: What Actually Helps, and What Is Just Foam
A good mat changes a hard floor into a slightly forgiving one. The category is full of thin foam that flattens in a month, so the differences are worth knowing.
Foot Health
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Why Feet Ache More on Hard Floors Than on Soft Ground
The surface does not absorb anything, so something else has to. Understanding what changes the way you think about a twelve hour shift.
Life on Your Feet
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The Two Minute Reset That Fits Inside a Shift
You cannot always sit down. You can almost always do this, and it addresses the actual mechanism behind heavy legs.
Pain & Recovery
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Why Heel Pain Is Worst in the First Steps of the Morning
It is one of the most recognisable patterns in foot pain, and the timing is the most useful thing you can tell a clinician.
Buying Guides
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How to Read the Specifications on an Insole
The features listed on the packet describe four different jobs. Knowing which is which tells you whether a given insole is built for your problem.
Workplace Wellbeing
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Anti-Fatigue Matting: What It Does and Where It Fails
The mechanism is real and quite specific. So are the situations where matting solves nothing and gets blamed for it.
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