An Orthotist’s goal is to enhance function and improve comfort by prescribing corrective devices for people with physical problems such as functional loss and/or structural deformity of the body.

Pain slows us down and makes our bodies feel unnatural and awkward. Gain compensations as a result of pain often cause injuries to other areas. Careful re-alignment of your feet and legs change the way your body works, allowing affected joints time to heal. Correctly prescribed Orthotic insoles can have a profound effect on the way you walk and run, giving enhanced balance and control affecting your entire musculo-skeletal system by:

• Offloading key painful areas of your feet giving comfort
  
• Re-aligningyour body, protecting against weakness andinstability
  
• Improving muscular efficiency and performance

The design of each orthotic insole is critical in achieving the best outcome for you, ensuring the appropriate level of correction will suit your unique needs. 

Why is Orthotic Treatment good for Injury Rehabilitation?

Flat feet can feel painful or cause knee or back pain, giving increased muscular fatigue as a result of your body compensating for feet that have lost their springiness and natural elasticity. During walking, excessive flattening movement of your hind-foot (pronation) creates inefficiency as you propel forward over your mid-foot and lever off your toes. This causes pain and increases the amount of energy lost, impacting heavily on walking endurance. Orthotic insoles correct unnatural joint alignment protecting us from injuries by placing our limbs in the optimal position.

Did you know?

Try this for yourself...
Stand up and watch as you roll your weight to the outside of your feet, then relax and allow your feet to roll back on the inside border of your feet. Notice the movement of your knee and hips as you do this. When you walk on feet that are too flat it increases the normal internal rotation of your knees which then turns your hips in too much, making your pelvis tip forward. This in turn increases your lumbar curve (the curve in the small of your back) and makes your bum stick out! Alignment changes like this are normally fine when we are young and supple, but when we grow maturer (over 30) our bodies progressively become more rigid and less forgiving and we can quickly pick up injuries, or find that an old injury recurs.