Does plantar contact necessarily = control?

Eric,
Well said....I agree to the research and will begin it very soon. It is an exciting question and I hope to have some high speed videos that may or may not settle this question. I will try to have a large enough N to be statistically significant.

I realize that you could not tolerate our orthotic, that is a shame, we have very few like you and I think that your study of one may not have a large enough N to be meaningful and might also be biased. Our company's growth would seem to be inconsistent with this finding unless we are appealing to the masochist market....If so, there sure are a lot of them and they must really like pain because they keep ordering second pairs (one guy today ordered 10 more pair....a real glutton for punishment ).

Ed

PS: The gellin" comment was meant in fun. I just want to comment that I love discussing biomechanics with you. I always feel that the winner in our discussions will be the patient and the intention is good and I admire that about you. Please excuse my sense of humor.

 

Please call me a Salesman

Simon,
Your claim that my orthotic does not work is based on nothing. You have never tried Sole Supports on a single patient. I can at least say that I tried posted and skived orthotics for many years before moving on to something that worked better clinically for me. The vast majority of my customers have had the same experience.
I do not want to publish my methodology because I do not want to fight lawsuits to defend my patent from hundreds of cheap coppies. Craig traveled to Nashville and saw that callibration is very real....and as he has alluded to in this thread, we do have the "really cool way of doing this". We did not do ten years of research to just give it away. When research is completed and published, we might consider licensing the technology to many labs as we are acutely aware that we will never be large enough to satisfy the growing demand for an orthotic that works at this level.
Please feel free to continue to reference the phenomenal succes of our company. ...I also find myself looking at our numbers in disbelief......it is truly a phenomena and cannot simply be attributed to my salesmanship. Don't get me wrong, I love sales, and am quite good at it. Show me any successful person and I will show you a salesman.....I also consider that a compliment. Sales and science are not mutually exclusive as Thomas Edison demonstrated. I don't think that after he did 50,000 experiments over 10 years to invent the battery, he just disseminated the methodology. Do you use the products invented by this salesman....or will you remain in the dark?
Clinicians capable of independant thought are examining my technology, trying it and finding in many cases that it is an improvement. Maybe that doesn't jive with your financial interests, or Kevin's or those of many who currently use or manufacture other technologies. Sorry about that.

Respectfully,
Ed
www.solesupports.com