Originally Posted by
burger
I think that Wyoming's advice is very bad. One thing I've noticed is that people get stress fractures when they change things: new shoes, big increase in mileage, etc. When I got my stress fracture, the first thing the doctor asked me was "What did you change recently?" It was my shoes--just a couple of days before the break.
So, drastically changing your walking style, when you may have been walking the same way for decades, is asking for trouble. Much better to try the other things mentioned above before you go about reconfiguring how you walk.