painful conditions
Reduced foot function is classically as a result of genetics, injury or disease.
How can Orthotics reduce my pain?
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.
Hard skin or calluses are formed as a result of shear forces slipping and tearing your skin repetitively. Untreated this will build up continually causing discomfort and reduced walking ability.
Painful bony prominences under the fore-foot cause significant discomfort when wearing heeled footwear or when walking on thin soled fashionable footwear.
Claw or hammer toes, although very common, can in an uncorrected state be very difficult to accommodate within footwear due to pressure on the top of the joints of the toes.
Leg length discrepancies can give rise to serious lumbar back pain that is typically felt to be single sided in origin arising deep on one side of the small of your back. This frequently occurring problem can remain unnoticed during your youthful flexible years and come to notice during the maturing or stiffening of the musculo-skeletal system.