Shoes are important for keeping your balance and cutting hard from one side to another. But shoes also play an important role in keeping your knees, ankles and other joins, muscles and tendons in good condition.

So when is it time to change your kicks? For most marathon or long distance runners the general advice is 1 month! Surprising, I thought so. For most indoor sports, playing 2 or 3 times a week 3 months or so is the advice from sport-doctors/therapists. But this also depends on the way you are built. Flat feet for example are an "excellent" source for shin split, ankle and knee injuries.
According to Adidas chronic injuries by sport shoes are caused:

• Wrong type of shoe 44 %
• Low quality 17 %
• Too long using your shoes 11 %
• Too intense training 12 %
• Training too many times a week 9 %
• Other 7 %

The first three are all factors that are actually involved. Some basketball players buy shoes and use them for two year. Hey they aren’t cheap! But if you have the wrong shoe or a low quality shoe changing shoes will also help you.
In basketball, and especially on hard surfaces, dampening gets more and more important. Especially when you are taller and or heavier, or when you jump higher and more frequent. The dampening of the shoes usually wears much faster than the looks of the shoe or the grip of the shoe. Although many new technologies in shoes, like the Nike Air Shox system, will probably last longer it is a good idea to keep changing your shoes as much as possible, especially when you feel that your knees might be at risk.

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