Prescription Custom Orthotics
Prescription Custom Orthotics are specially designed arch
supports used to reduce pain and support your feet!
Prescription Orthotic Process
First, we do a screening test to determine if we need to further evaluate your feet.
Step two, if you have a positive screening test, we will evaluate your feet precisely biomechanical foot issues by measuring your unique foot structure and each individual lower extremity for joint alignment and range of motion, muscle function for flexibility, and strength.
Next, we use a digitized gait analysis to get an evaluation of your feet. Then we will use a computer digitized gait analysis to get a pressure map evaluation of your foot biomechanics.
We prescribe custom made orthotics to correct biomechanical foot problems and treat foot pain caused by shin splints, heel pain, plantar fasciitis, flat feet, knee pain, painful calluses, long standing foot issues, or diabetic foot problems like peripheral neuropathy.
After your evaluation is completed, we'll ask you questions to help pick out the most appropriate custom foot orthotics for your daily life situations. You'll have the choice of a custom orthotic for dress shoes, work shoes, or any shoe you use to play sports even ski boots.
Your custom orthotics will have many things built into them including arch support, foot cushions to combat foot fatigue, extra cushioning to absorb shock (if needed), and most will have semi rigid material for overall support of your foot.
We offer you the best when it comes to prescription foot orthotics. Our Fargo chiropractors will prescribe a custom pair of foot orthotics for your individual needs.
Prescription custom orthotics help support proper alignment and correct abnormal motion of your lower extremities including your feet, ankles, and legs.
Foot Orthotics: Our custom-made prescription foot orthotics are specially designed for YOUR feet
Why settle for mass produced arch support shoe inserts or over the counter insoles sold in a retail store?
When you can have Great Feet with custom orthotics supporting your every step. Your foot pain will be gone and so will your heel pain, plantar fasciitis, flat feet, foot and ankle joint pain and other foot problems. Your back and body will thank you!
Our custom orthotics are designed to provide maximum control by using four layers - top cover, cushioning, module, and bottom cover - to create the best foot orthotic fit and support. They offer excellent motion control without added bulk or discomfort.
Foot pain
Foot pain and foot disorders are common concerns for older people. If you have foot pain, your life can be made harder because carrying out normal daily tasks such as walking, getting in and out of a chair and climbing stairs can be more challenging. When you have foot pain activities like balance are more difficult and could lead to easier falling. Pain can lead to less mobility leading to weight gain, weakness, and heart issues. Getting older doesn't mean you have to put up with foot pain or decrease your activity levels.
Structure of the Foot
Each of your feet contain 26 bones, 33 joints, and more than 120 muscles, ligaments, tendons, and nerves.
These all work together to support the weight of your body, act as shock absorbers, keep you balanced, and push you forward with each stride. On average, people spend about four hours standing on their feet every day and take around 5,000 individual steps. Because feet are small compared to your whole body, they receive an enormous impact with each footfall. Adding up to hundreds of tons of weight every day. Normal walking can be 1-3 times your body weight. Running can be 3-5 your body weight and going down stairs can bring up to 7 times your body weight.
One of the main causes of foot problems is poor-fitting shoes. Three out of four people over the age of 65 wear shoes that are too small. Narrow or high-heeled shoes, shoes with slippery soles, or shoes that offer no protection or support may cause serious injury and pain and increase your chance of a fall. Most foot problems are treatable through non surgical and non drug ways.
What are Foot Problems?
Decades of standing changes your feet. Much of the natural cushion of padding under your heel and the ball of your foot is lost. The arches get flatter and less flexible, your ankles and foot joints become stiffer, and your whole foot gets wider and longer. Because of these changes, you may develop foot pain and other problems even if you never had difficulties with your feet before. Certain medical conditions put you at greater risk of foot problems. For example, diabetes can cause reduced blood circulation and nerve damage in the feet. Poor circulation from other reasons such as hardening of the arteries, or peripheral arterial disease, can also cause foot problems.
The Most Common Types of Foot Problems
In older adults, the foot complaints encountered most often are:
- Bunions - A bony growth or misaligned bone at the base of the big toe, or sometimes on the small toe. Eventually, the big toe may bend abnormally toward the small toes.
- Calluses and corn - Dead, yellowish, thickened skin on toes.
- Hammertoes - Toe joints (usually the second toe but all the middle toes may be affected) that curl up or under, either rigidly or with some flexibility, often resulting in a permanently dislocated joint.
- Toenail problems - Ingrown (growing into the skin), thickened, or discolored toenails.
- Foot problems related to diabetes - These can include stubborn foot ulcers that are difficult to heal, loss of feeling, or circulation problems.
- Foot problems associated with deformities - These may be caused by arthritis, including rheumatoid arthritis and gout.
- Heel pain - This pain is present at the back of the arch from heel spurs, bony outgrowth or plantar fasciitis, an inflamed ligament along the bottom of the foot.
Some other foot problems that are less common but may be encountered among older people include:
- Arch pain - From fallen arches (flat feet), or abnormally high arches.
- Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome - A type of pinched nerve disorder.
- Achilles Tendonitis - Inflammation of the tendon that connects your heel bone to your calf muscle.
- Morton's Neuroma - A nerve growth between the third and fourth toes.
How Common are Foot Problems?
Approximately 1 out of every 3 people over the age of 65 have foot pain, stiffness, or aching feet. The less active you are the more likely that you will have foot problems. Just over 87% of people in the USA will have painful feet at some time in their lives. Most of the foot problems are from tight fitting shoes or high-heeled shoes. Foot problems are present in higher percentages in older or obese people, people with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, or knee, hip, or back pain. For women, pain in the toes and ball of the foot is much more common than in men, it gets worse with age. However, pain in the heel tends to decrease as we get older.
Older people are more likely to have foot pain if they also have a chronic disease. Foot pain in younger people tends to come from aching muscles and stress on bones. In older people, pain most often comes from corns, calluses, and toe deformities, of which 75% are bunions. As much as one-third of all older people have a bunion. About 30% of older people with foot pain have calluses and about 15% have corns on their toes. It has been estimated that one-third of all older people have fungal infections in a toenail. The likelihood of having a fungus infection is even higher in older people with diabetes, psoriasis, reduced immunity, poor circulation, or obesity.
It's important to be educated on what is causing your foot pain. For more information about foot injuries, go to:
Get Rid of Foot Pain Once And For All!
Your custom orthotics will be designed to provide maximum control by using four layers - top cover, cushioning, module, and bottom cover - to create the best foot orthotics fit and support. They offer excellent motion control without added bulk or discomfort. It's really worth your time get evaluated and fitted for prescription custom foot orthotics created just for YOUR feet!
Spinal Orthotics: Spinal Orthotics are used to help correct and support the proper alignment of Your Spine
Denneroll spinal orthotic devices allow you to continue your treatment at home, helping you get better results faster while improving flexibility and function.
Denneroll spinal remodeling devices are based on tested evidence-based research. Denneroll offers treatment of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal regions. Denneroll devices correct spinal misalignments.
You will love how Denneroll devices help you get better results faster in your restoration plan. Denneroll devices are firm and flexible making them comfortable to use.
Below you will find videos if give you guidance on how to use your Denneroll.
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