Best running shoes for Haglund's Deformity?

Rupp?

Addidas solar glide have a nice stretchy, heel counter.

I have Haglunds as well. I just take a razor blade and cut out a bunch of the soft, cushion material on the heal of the shoe. I don't cut through the back of the shoe though. I've been doing this for many years now and it is a lifesaver. It used to take me 150 miles of intense pain to wear a hole through the back of my shoe. Try it... you'll thank me later.

rfed wrote:

Addidas solar glide have a nice stretchy, heel counter.

^This. For faster runs the Nike Zoom Fly SP has a completely unstructured heel counter.

I have the same problem. I used to run in the early models of the Saucony Kinvara, which were quite soft in the heel. However, the more recent versions seem to be getting progressively stiffer in the heel so I've had to stop buying them.

The Altra Torin Knit has a super soft back of the heel but the shoes didn't work for me at all. They caused intense pain in the middle toes of my "good" foot after 5 miles and had to return the shoes.

Currently my favorite shoe is the Nike Lunar Tempo 2, which also has a very soft back of the heel but has been discontinued and is almost impossible to find any more in my size. I've tried a few other Nike models that also have soft heels but otherwise don't fit my foot at all. I don't know what I'm going to do when I wear out my remaining old Kinvaras and Lunar Tempos, and I'm looking for a solution.

25% of the population struggles with this. You would think that every manufacturer would produce at least one model that accomodates it.

Dubbles wrote:

I have Haglunds as well. I just take a razor blade and cut out a bunch of the soft, cushion material on the heal of the shoe. I don't cut through the back of the shoe though. I've been doing this for many years now and it is a lifesaver. It used to take me 150 miles of intense pain to wear a hole through the back of my shoe. Try it... you'll thank me later.

I've tried this, but it doesn't help much unless I cut through the whole back of the shoe, and doing that makes the shoe so unstable on my foot that I can't run that way. I have completely chopped out the backs of the heels from my everyday walking-around shoes and that has made all the difference between being able to continue running and being completely disabled, as there is now no pressure on my heel during the 21-23 hours per day that I am not running. I still don't have a suitable solution for my running shoes, though.

Bump (pun intended)

Any other advice? I've done OK with the Sketchers GOrun Ride and replacing the insole, but feel like I could find better.

Great tip on cutting out the back padding. Damn heel is going to shred it anyway.

I had a surgeon cut my foot now all shoes fit haha.

The ones that felt the best pre surgery were ones with no structure in the heel. Soft and flexible like an old nike free

Heinenkleisner wrote:

I've done OK with the Sketchers GOrun Ride and replacing the insole, but feel like I could find better.

I'm also using the Skechers GOrun but I also wish I could find something better.

I’ve also used the goRun Ride but the newer models are getting a bit more rigid in the heel.

The adidas solar guide has a really soft heel with no plastic in the middle of the heel box. I think this would be worth a try.

The saucony iso freedom is another option but it’s a fairly minimal shoe for longer runs.

Atreyu's shoes. They have no heel counter, and I have a haglund's and it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

How long did it take you to make a full recovery and did the surgery completely eradicate the pain? im considering getting the surgery and am wondering if it will be worth it!

Jumping into this discussion also but I've also been dealing with haglund's for the last couple of years and deal with it a lot better now working on achilles calf/strength, specifically long isometric holds with added weight- kind of just treating it as insertional achilles tendonitis though the bump/calcification will always be there and cause some irritation I suppose. But footwear has continued to be a source of frustration.

I was running in the Pegasus 36 (trail and road versions) for a while and they seemed good but have reverted back to running all my runs in Free RN 2018 Flyknit's since they are the only shoe I've found that don't cause any irritation at all with the heel counter pretty much all being very flexible/soft elastic knit, though they don't provide much in terms of support/traction for runs on trails. Maybe I'll just have to start cutting the backs out of all my shoes and disregard how funny it would look

I’ve had both fixed. Bump cut off. Did not detach the Achilles. After the second one I was able to jog at 10 weeks. Pain completely gone.

new balance beacon work for me

Hi Stipe, can you give me more info on the surgery you had to avoid cutting the Achilles? I am hoping to be able to do the same. Was it the technique or specific location of your haglund's?

I am currently enjoying Altra Escalante and a couple of other lines of theirs. Soft heel cup (so no pressure) and wide toe box. They run a little short so I get 1/2 size up.

Had surgery several years ago after a lifetime of it screwing me over on an annual basis. Still prone to some irritation if I piss it off with the wrong shoes, but been steady in New Balance 1080 v10 for 3 pairs now. Soft enough in heel with a little dimple in it.

I used to cut the heel counters out whenever I could, but I jacked up more shoes doing that that than anything else really, and was never a permanent fix for me.

Side note: I find my everyday lifestyle shoe is what is more likely to get things inflamed bad more than my running shoe choices nowadays.