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| Custom Orthotics Can Help You Relieve Foot Pain |
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| Foot and arch ailments not only leave you in pain, but can also interfere with your normal routine. FootSmart, dedicated to keeping you moving in comfort, offers a variety of custom orthotics designed to ease painful symptoms, keep feet and lower body in proper alignment and get you back in the swing of things. |
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| Why You Need to Wear Custom Orthotics |
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The body needs sound support to maintain its weight and perform normal activities. If the support structure is weakened, the muscles must work harder to keep the feet, knees, hips and back in alignment.
Heel, arch, ball-of-foot, knee, leg and lower back pain can all result from improper arch support and misalignment of your heel and forefoot as you walk. But you can help relieve pain by wearing custom orthotics.
- Relieve Back Pain with Custom Orthotics: The body’s foundation starts with the feet, so minor changes in shoes – buying more therapeutic shoes, avoiding high heels, giving your feet support via custom orthotics – can also help limit the strain feet place on the hips and back.
- Relieve Ball-of-Foot Pain with Custom Orthotics: Wearing shoe insoles or custom orthotics can help spread your weight more equally across the entire bottom of the foot. Shoes and insoles also provide stability to prevent the abnormal collapsing of the arch.
- Relieve Knee Pain with Custom Orthotics: Chronic pain behind or around the kneecap is often diagnosed as chondromalacia, or “runner’s knee,” an abnormal softening of the cartilage that makes it difficult to move your knee. Wearing stable shoes with custom orthotics that provide crucial arch support, especially during exercise or walking, can help relieve knee pain.
- Relieve Arch Pain with Custom Orthotics: When the arch is fully collapsed or rolls inward, you have flat feet, meaning you’re missing crucial arch support. Wearing insoles or custom orthotics that support the arch and stabilize the heel can help relieve pain and keep you moving in comfort.
- Relieve Leg Pain with Custom Orthotics: Wearing insoles and other custom orthotics can help reduce the stress placed on muscles and tendons on the front and sides of the legs, helping you avoid conditions like shin splints.
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| Find Custom Orthotics on FootSmart.com |
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The following custom orthotics are available on FootSmart.com and via our mail-order catalog:
- Custom Comfort Insoles – These custom orthotics are constructed from IsoFoam, a revolutionary cushioning material that conforms to the impression your feet make when you walk. This unique pressure responds to your every step, yet won't flatten out or change shape, even after hundreds of miles of wear.
FootSmart offers these and many other custom orthotics, including insoles, arch supports, knee braces and much more, to help keep you moving in comfort. Please start shopping today to find the right custom orthotics to help ease your foot pain.
We hope that FootSmart, the largest direct retailer of foot and lower body healthcare products in the U.S., will be your sole destination for foot and lower body healthcare products like custom orthotics.
If you are suffering from chronic foot pain, and the use of custom orthotics does not help ease your pain, we suggest you visit your local podiatrist before attempting the use of any other foot product.
Information on foot, leg and lower body health conditions provided by The Podiatry Institute, dedicated to advancing the standard of care in podiatric medicine and its effects on muscoskeletal health. |
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| Disclaimer for Health Content Pages |
FootSmart lower body health condition content pages describe general principles of healthcare that should not in any event be construed as specific instructions for individual consumers. This material is not intended as a guide to self-medication or as a substitute for proper medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. This healthcare content is for reference only and should not be used to determine treatment for specific medical conditions – only a healthcare provider can do that.
You should discuss the information provided with a podiatrist, physician or other licensed healthcare professional, and make sure to read any product information (including package inserts) regarding dosage, precautions, warnings, interactions and contraindications before administering or using any device, support, brace, compression hosiery, shoes intended for use by diabetics, skincare product, herb, vitamin or supplement discussed on this site.
Proper treatment of lower body health conditions depends upon a number of factors, including, but not limited to, your medical history, diet, lifestyle and medications that may be taking. Your healthcare provider can best assess and address your individual healthcare needs. |
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