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Quick Foot Orthoses

Discussion in 'Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses' started by yerfdogyrag, Feb 17, 2014.

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< Video Gait Analysis | Development in casting technique 2014 >

yerfdogyrag Welcome New Poster

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Hi,

I'm actually on the patient side of the house here (PTTD), but I figured I'd throw this out to y'all and see if it might be useful to anyone. I'd had custom orthoses once from a doctor and they seemed to make my condition worse than my hand-whittled versions. So, I decided to try and make better ones. Here's a video describing my current technique:

And the material:

http://www.smooth-on.com/Rigid-and-Flexible/c10_1253/index.html

(Soma Foama® 25)

My current versions have about 4mm additional material on the medial side at the heel and this seems to make things a bit better than my previous ones.

Feel free to tell me I'm a complete idiot for trying this at home.

Regards,
Gary Godfrey
Austin, TX

Last edited by a moderator: Sep 22, 2016

yerfdogyrag, Feb 17, 2014

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