Orthotics
In today’s fast paced society, the average person takes about 8,000 steps per day. That is a lot of pressure on our feet. Foot health has become an increasingly important part of our daily lives.
Foundation of Your Body
Your feet are the foundation of your body. They support you when you stand, walk, or run. They help protect your spine, bones, and soft tissues from damaging stress as you move around. Your feet perform better when all their muscles, arches, and bones are in their ideal stable positions.
Your feet have direct impact on the rest of your body. A small abnormality in foot function can have a large impact on joints higher in the body, causing pain and discomfort. When you are running, the pressure on your feet can be three or four times your body weight. Even walking can produce more pressure than the sum of your body weight. Discomfort and strain on your feet can lead to pain in other areas of the body such as; the ankles, knees, hips, back, shoulders and neck.
Help is Only Two Feet Away
Each individual’s feet interact differently with the ground, which affects the use of joints, muscles and tendons in the foot. By stabilizing and balancing your feet, custom made orthotics enhance your body’s performance and efficiency, reduce pain, and contribute to your total body wellness.
A thorough biomechanical analysis and custom fitting will allow us to produce the ideal orthotics for you. Custom orthotics are biomechanical medical appliances that are made to correct your specific foot imbalance. Therefore, they are covered by most extended health insurance plans.
Still wondering if orthotics are right for you? Take our test and find out
1) Do you stand or walk on hard surfaces for more than 4 hours daily?
2) Do you participate regularly in any physical sport?
3) Are you age 40 or older?
4) Have you had prior knee, back or neck injury?
5) Do you have joint pain while standing, walking, or running?
6) Do you have knock knees or bow legs?
7) Do you have obvious foot problems (bunions, corns, flat feet,
callus build up, etc)?
8) Do your feet “toe out” when you’re walking?
9) Are your feet sore on a regular basis?
10) Did your parents have foot related problems?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, or if you suffer from heel spurs,
shin splints, plantar fasciitis, flat feet, ankle, knee, hip and/or low back pain,
please contact us to see how custom-
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The average person takes 8000 steps per day, 192 million steps per lifetime, and will walk about ¾ of the way around the world in their lifetime.
