A variety of foot conditions
can be treated conservatively
with footwear. We have
the tools and know-how
for difficult cases.
- Accessory Bones (Accessory Ossicle, extra bones in the foot)
- Accomodation (shock absorption and distribution, accommodate deformities)
- Achilles Tendonitis
- Ankle Equinus (limited or no heel contact with the ground during gait)
- Acquired Adult Flat Foot Deformity (AAFFD, Posterior Tibial Tendon Disorder)
- Amputation
- Arch Pain (medial, longitudinal, transverse)
- Arthritis (degenerative joint disease, Osteo, Rheumatoid, other forms)
- Ankle sprain
- Asymmetry between feet (different shoe sizes, structure, biomechanics)
- Atrophy
- Balance (stability, proprioception)
- Biomechanical disorders of the foot
(excessive pronation, hypermobile first ray, excessive supinated) - Brace-to-shoe Fitting (brace, AFO, prosthetic shoe-fitting)
- Bunions (Hallux Abducto Valgus, Dorsal bunion, Tailor's Bunion - 5th MPJ)
- Callus formation (callosity)
- Cancer. Side effects from medication causing neuropathy
- Charcot Foot
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Chronic Repetitive Strain Syndrome
- Claw Toes
- Club Foot (talipes equinovarus)
- Contracture
- Corns
- Chronic foot conditions/disorders
- Deformities (Congenital and Acquired)
- Diabetic Foot care
- Diabetic Ulcer (woundcare)
- Edema (Swollen Feet)
- Exostoses (osteophytes,bony deformity)
- Extrinsic factors (related to effects from above the ankle)
- Flat Feet (Pes Planus)
- Floating Toe
- Foot Infection
- Frontal plane disorders
- Functional Correction (improved foot structure and biomechanics)
- Functional disorders (occurring dynamically)
- Gait Abnormalities
- Ganglion
- Gout
- Hallux Rigidus/Limitus
- Hard-to-Fit Feet
- Hammer Toes
- Heel Pain
- Heel Fissures
- Heel Spurs
- High Arches (Pes Cavus, excessively supinated foot, elevated long arch)
- Hypermobility (excessive joint motion)
- HIV/AIDS
- Ingrown Toenails
- Intrinsic factors (related to effects from the foot and ankle)
- Iliotibial Band (IT) Syndrome
- Joint pain (Tenosynovitis, functional and structural disorders)
- Joint fusion (Arthrodesis)
- Joint limitations (Ankylosis, limited range of motion)
- Knee pain (Chondromalacia Patella)
- Lateral column pain (pain along the outside of the foot)
- Limb-Length Inequality (Discrepancy, Asymmetry)
- Low Arches (Pes Planus, excessively pronated foot, low long arch)
- Lumbar Radiculopathy (support for lower-back pathology)
- Lymphedema
- Mallet Toes
- Medial column pain (pain along the inside of the foot)
- Metatarsalgia (pain in the ball area of the foot -"metheads"/MPJs)
- Mis-mated Shoe Sizes (feet are different sizes and/or widths)
- Mortons Toe (Morton's syndrome, short first toe/metatarsal)
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Muscular Dystrophy (complications due to Muscular Dystrophy)
- Myalgia (muscle soreness or pain, strain)
- Narrow shoe sizes
- Neuro-Muscular Disorders -
- Neuropathy (numbness, peripheral neuropathies)
- Neuroma (Morton's Neuroma)
- Numbness (loss of sensation in all or part of the foot/toes)
- Obesity
- Orthotics and Prosthetics support (shoe fitting for O&P)
- Osteochondrosis (Avascular Necrosis, Osteonecrosis, Freiberg's disease)
- Overlapping Toes
- Overuse Syndromes (repetitive stress on the foot)
- Pain (foot, knee, postural)
- Palliative care
- Parkinson's Disease
- Pathomechanics and Joint Malalignment
- Pediatric care
- Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD)
- Periostitis
- Peroneal Tendinitis
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Plantar Fibro Matosis (Dupytren's contracture of the foot)
- Post-Polio Syndrome
- Post-Tib Tendonitis/ (Posterior Tibual Tendon Disfunction, PTTD)
- Post Surgery
- Pregnancy
- Pronation (generally excessive with hypermobile feet)
- Psoriasis
- Reiters Syndrome
- Rehabilitation support
- Rigid joint(s) in the foot and ankle (limited or no joint motion)
- Rigid Pronated Feet
- Rigid Supinated Feet
- Raynaud's disease
- Saggital plane disorders
- Sesamoiditis
- Sinus Tarsi Syndrome
- Shin Splints
- Shoe fitting and shoe modification
- Sore, Achy Feet
- Splayed Fore-foot (fore-foot is substantially wider than the rearfoot/heel)
- Spasticity (cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, spina bifida)
- Sports performance & related injuries (sports medicine)
- Stress and Fatigue (relief for soft tissue, joints, and bone structures of the feet)
- Stress Fracture
- Structural disorders (caused by osseous deformity)
- Supination (generally associated with rigid, high-arched feet)
- Tarsal Coalition and other Joint Coalitions
- Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome
- Tailor's Bunion
- Tendinitis (Tenosynovitis, Peritendinitis, Achilles Tendinitis)
- Tendinosis
- Tendon Strain
- Tissue Stress (pathology-related compression, tensile, and shear forces)
- Toe Deformities (hammer, claw, mallet, overlapping, floating)
- Transverse plane disorders (abduction, adduction, overlapping toe)
- Turf Toe
- Ulcerations and Lesions (wound care)
- Vascular Disease (affecting the feet)
- Wide shoe sizes
- Wounds
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