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Enhancing Performance, Comfort & Safety in Shoes
MEDICAL CONDITIONS
A variety of conditions can be treated conservatively with pedorthics.
Since 2003
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 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)
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 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
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