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Custom Orthotic, Fabricated Directly from the Patient's Foot

Discussion in 'General Issues and Discussion Forum' started by terigreen, Jul 10, 2022.

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A heat moldable thermoplastic orthotic is a custom orthotic fabricated directly from the patient's foot. It allows you to duplicate a lab quality built custom orthotic in less than 10 minutes for the fraction of the cost.

The thermoplastic orthotic blank that is heated with a toaster oven, boiling water or a heat gun until it is flexible. The orthotic arch support device blank is placed on a pillow or under the patient's shoe insole. Then the patient will press down with the practitioner controlling the subtalar joint (usually in neutral). This direct contact fabrication of an orthotic allows the practitioner to control the production process from start to finish without costly orthotic lab fees or messy plaster casts. Patients appreciate no having to wait weeks for the device. Usually, costs to the practitioner are much less than those charged by orthotic labs.

Atlas Biomechanics' thermoplastic heat moldable custom orthotic blanks allow you to produce a lab quality orthotic in office in about 10 minutes for a fraction of the price. Atlas Biomechanics offers dress and athletic orthotic blanks and prefab orthotic. Uses include arch support for plantar fasciitis, heel spurs, flat feet, overpronation, knee, and lower back pain.

Orthotics
1) Narrow Profile (dress) Heat Mold, Direct Contact Orthotic
2) Medium Profile (athletic) Heat Mold, Direct Contact Orthotic

Please view our Orthotic Fabrication Guide to learn how easy it is to make a custom orthotic.
Our orthotics ( arch supports ) will control subtalar joint pronation that causes valgus heel, collapsed arch, and plantar fasciitis.

Heat Moldable, Direct Contact, Custom Orthotics:
* fraction the cost of orthotic labs.
* 3/4 semi-rigid shell, long lasting, total contact fit custom orthotic.
* 1.3 mm thin proprietary material for ease of molding.
* two orthotic models, Athletic (medium profile) and Dress (narrow profile).

Teri Green
Atlas Biomechanics

terigreen, Jul 10, 2022

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