Names behind
the brand.
Every orthotic we make carries two names, and two lifetimes of obsession with how the human foot really works.
A name isn't invented. It's inherited. KevinRoot Medical is what happens when the science one man spent a lifetime defining meets the hands of someone who refused to let it fade.
Dr. Merton L. Root, DPM, the Father of Podiatric Biomechanics.
The man who taught the world how the foot works.
The foundation · 1922–2002
In a chiropody classroom, a young Merton Root kept asking his professor a question no one could answer: how, exactly, does the foot function? That refusal to accept "we don't know" became a life's work.
He arrived at a deceptively simple idea, a neutral position, a concept of zero from which every foot could be measured. With Dr. William Orien he wrote the textbooks that became the foundation of modern podiatric biomechanics, and in 1974 he founded Root Functional Orthotic Laboratory.
He didn't just build a product. He built the language the entire field still speaks.
Read Merton Root's full story →A Life in Motion
Eight decades, one obsession
"There had to be a neutral zone, almost like a concept of zero."The idea, recalled by Root's family, that reshaped a profession
The steward who carried the work forward.
Kevin B. Rosenbloom · today
Kevin Rosenbloom found this world at eleven, in a chiropractor's waiting room, reading a pamphlet titled "Is it a good shoe?" At sixteen he taught himself to press custom insoles on a dusty machine in the back of an REI. In a Durango ski shop he decided, for good, that feet would be his life's work.
He opened his own lab with a single goal: give clinicians the highest-quality products and experience for every biomechanical need. He is the creator of Biomechanical Intelligence™ and Foot ID™, and today serves as CEO and Medical Director.
He'll tell you he's not the story here. He's the one making sure Merton Root's is never forgotten.
Read Kevin Rosenbloom's full story →
Kevin B. Rosenbloom, C.Ped, Founder, CEO & Medical Director.
"I was hooked on the feeling of a job well done."
A young master boot fitter, 2001.
Friends and coworkers from The Ski Barn, where the name "Feet in Motion" was first predicted. Zion, 2002.
Left: a young master boot fitter, 2001. Right: friends and coworkers from The Ski Barn, where the name "Feet in Motion" was first predicted, Zion, 2002.
Every mark along the way
From a ski-shop joke to a household name.
May 2020: two names. One mission.
In 2019, Jeff Root, Merton's son, went looking for someone to carry his father's legacy forward. By 2020, the two labs had merged. The science that started it all, now in hands that treat it like a responsibility.
What we do today
Technologies that help clinicians measure the body and improve human movement.
KevinRoot Medical is a full-service biomechanical lab: custom orthoses, bracing, 3D foot scanning and Biomechanical Intelligence, all in service of one thing, better outcomes for your patients. The science Dr. Root began, carried forward and prescribed with precision.
A doctor's science.
A steward's promise.
One name.
Root Lab, est. 1974 · KevinRoot Medical, est. 2020
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