Today’s patient is a 20 year old male varsity basketball player at a local junior college. His chief complaint is recurring sprains on the outside of his right ankle. He has been playing team...
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Case Studies of the Use of Custom Functional Foot Orthotics #3: Basketball Athlete Caseposted in Practical Pearls
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Case Studies of the Use of Custom Functional Foot Orthotics #2posted in Practical Pearls
Our patient is a 39 year old female with a chief complaint of burning and occasional throbbing pain in the ball of her right foot. The pain started approximately six months prior and manifested ini...
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Case Studies of the Use of Custom Functional Foot Orthotics #1posted in Practical Pearls
The next few weeks of posts will consist of hypothetical biomechanical cases intended to stimulate the thought process behind building an orthotic device. Biomechanical data will be provided, as we...
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Innovative Tech in from Nikeposted in Practical Pearls
Recent announcements from Nike on emerging technology in the athletic shoe industry. I am not sure how this will pan out in the future, but very interesting concepts for biomechanists to discuss an...
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Combining Custom Foot Orthotics and Shoesposted in Practical Pearls
Providing the correct orthotic device for your patient includes not only the symptoms of the patient, the biomechanical findings of the patient, the body morphology of the patient including...
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Shoe Fitting and Sizing, Old Schoolposted in Practical Pearls
In last week’s post we introduced the ShoeFit IQ technology within the Foot IDPro app. This week, let's take a little time to review classic techniques that have stood the test of time. Ortho...
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Using ShoeFit IQ in the FootID Pro Appposted in Practical Pearls
A nifty added benefit to utilizing the Foot ID Pro app on your smart phone is a feature called ShoeFit IQ. ShoeFit IQ is very simple to use, and the only equipment or supplies required are your Iph...
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Custom Functional Orthotics versus Custom Accommodative Orthoticsposted in Practical Pearls
In every case, biomechanics practitioners are faced with the decision on what type of orthotic they choose to manufacture for their patients. A quick perusal of the KRM website demonstrates the myr...
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Custom Foot Orthotics versus Ankle Foot Orthoticsposted in Practical Pearls
The previous post compared custom accommodative foot orthotics to custom function foot orthotics. Now, we proceed along the spectrum of treatment options to ankle foot orthotics. We will limit this...
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Don’t forget About the Kidsposted in Practical Pearls
This time of year brings about the back to school rituals as well as the autumn sports seasons. It is a great time to remind ourselves of the often neglected biomechanical issues that may be lurkin...
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Using the Configurator in FootID Pro, Part 16posted in Practical Pearls
I want to thank the readers of the Forum for sticking with it through this summer school version of the FootID Pro tutorial. The process of prescribing custom foot orthotics can be simple and strai...
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Using the Configurator in FootID Pro, Part 15posted in Practical Pearls
I hope that readers of this Forum have learned as much about the contemporary methods for prescribing custom foot orthotics as I have in writing it. I started my practice of podiatry in 198...
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Using the Configurator in FootID Pro, Part 14posted in Practical Pearls
Our journey through the Configurator has finally arrived at the final column, "Covering". It is fitting for this to be the last step in constructing a custom foot orthotic. In essence, it is like t...
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Using the Configurator in FootID Pro, Part 13posted in Practical Pearls
In the last post in this series we left off within the “Pads and Cushions” section of the configurator with the met balance pad, the metatarsal punch and the slot accommodation, and the...
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Using the Configurator in FootID Pro, Part 12posted in Practical Pearls
This episode of our journey through the FootID Pro Configurator leads us to the area of “Pads and Cushions” that address primarily the plantar forefoot in and around the distal metatars...
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Using the Configurator in FootID Pro, Part 11posted in Practical Pearls
Today we will continue our review of the various pads and cushions available to customize your orthotic devices within the FootID Pro application. Many of these simple, yet effective additions not ...
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Using the Configurator in FootID Pro, Part 10posted in Practical Pearls
Functional custom foot orthotic devices are biomechanics based in nature and are intended to correct the deforming forces that create lower extremity symptomatology. This function is performed the ...
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Using the Configurator in FootID Pro, Part 9posted in Practical Pearls
Hopefully, by now, those of you reading this have become quite familiar with using the FootID Pro application on your phone and your computer, and are taking advantage of all it has to offer the bu...
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Using the Configurator in FootID Pro, Part 8posted in Practical Pearls
We continue our journey through a step by step review of the various options available for our clients in customizing their patients’ custom foot orthotics. Lastly, we left off with a fairly ...
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Using the Configurator in FootID Pro, Part 7posted in Practical Pearls
The most recent entry in this series of discussions focused on the rearfoot posting options within the FootID Pro application. The next field we will discuss is “Forefoot Post”. As I st...
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