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In this Foot of the week, a patient explains his success with the Blaze AFO and Ian Engelman, CPO, describes how to determine and adjust the length of the AFO strap.
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This is the second episode of Insightful Product’s “Orthotic Me Challenge” series. This episode of our orthotic challenge was filmed at the Annual Science & Management Symposium (SAM) held in Orlando, Florida in January by the Florida Podiatric Medical Association (FPMA). In this Episode, Dr. Ben Wolansky, DPM takes the challenge and demonstrates the Orthotic Me product on his wife. In the orthotic challenge, each podiatrist was challenged with the task of fitting the orthoticMe product. Each doctor had his or her own strategy and solution for the patient. Follow our series and learn orthotic theory from the many expert podiatrists who took the OrthoticMe challenge!
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This is the first episode of Insightful Product’s “OrthoticMe Challenge” series. This episode of our orthotic challenge was filmed at the Annual Science & Management Symposium (SAM) held in Orlando, Florida in January by the Florida Podiatric Medical Association (FPMA). In this Episode, Dr. Chris Swartz, DPM takes the challenge and demonstrates the OrthoticMe product on our control subject or patient. In the orthotic challenge, each podiatrist was challenged with the task of fitting our control subject with the orthoticMe product. Each doctor had his or her own strategy and solution for the patient. Follow our series and learn orthotic theory from the many expert podiatrists who took the Orthoticme challenge!
Dr. Rosen, DPM endorses Insightful Product’s Blaze MI brace for PTD (post tib) and the custom Step-Smart brace for drop foot. Both AFO’s have helped his podiatry practice and he is very satisfied with Insightful’s customer service.
Insightful Products launch its new foot orthotic technology that allows the patient or practitioner to create a custom orthotic in just minutes without the need to take foot molds, modify plaster, heat and mold materials, grind, glue or buff. This modular foot orthotic can be fully customized on the spot without the need for any equipment. The patient or practitioner can build and make custom adjustments in just seconds to provide the proper foot correction eliminating foot pain. Using a proprietary velcro and composite system, the Orthotic Me can be built from the ground up to suit not only the specific patient but also the specific shoe the patient may wear.
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In this week’s video blog, we have a guest appearance by Diana Bean, granddaughter of LL Bean, who happens to wear Insightful’s Blaze MI brace for post tib (posterior tibial tendonitis). She had some pain in her toe caused by a condition called hammertoes. This condition is not addressed by the Blaze brace, but provided us an opportunity to show how shoes often need adjustment in order to relieve pain and discomfort. In this particular situation, the shoe needed to be marked in the area creating the pressure so that the orthotist could remove some material from the shoe thereby creating more space for the problematic toe. Often times when pressure or irritation is a problem, people incorrectly think that adding padding is the answer. The solution is actually the reverse of what most people might think. Rather than adding more padding or cushioning to the area of the foot and ankle, the answer is to remove material from the shoe or ankle brace, creating the required space. This is called a “relief” for the prominent area of the foot and ankle. This is a practice commonly used in AFO’s or ankle foot orthoses but also is commonly needed in shoe fitting.
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In this Week’s vblog, we talk about the use of the term orthotic and how it is more than just a word to describe the Foot orthotic but also the AFO or Ankle Foot Orthosis. Also, we discuss AFO straps and how simple it can be to adjust your strap’s length by simply cutting excess material. We have many foot and ankle patients that dont feel comfortable altering the brace strap but so long as you leave enough of the strap to fasten the brace to the foot and ankle, its fine to cut off the excess material to make the adjustment.
In this week’s episode, we demonstrate how the Step-Smart brace (treatment) for drop foot can be adjusted to track better on the leg. The existing orthotic should be removed from the shoe before inserting the brace. The Step-Smart AFO has a good arch support and foot orthotic built into the braces footplate. This needs to be aligned properly so that the calf section tracks on the leg properly.
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In this episode, we compare the Step-Smart AFO with the Dynamic Walk AFO, Dorsi-strap, and Swedish style posterior leaf spring drop foot orthosis / brace. These ankle foot orthoses are compared for shoe fitting, comfort, and general gait proficiency.
In this weeks’s vblog, we discuss our pediatric AFO, called the SMO. The SMO ankle brace or SMO orthotic, stands for Supramalleollar orthoses. This pediatric AFO is a soft AFO for children. The ankle orthosis allows both dorsiflexion and plantarflexion but provides the support kids require when pronation is a problem.
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