Orthotics

A bespoke orthotic is a device that is designed to align the foot and ankle in the most anatomically efficient position possible. They resemble insoles, but they are biomechanical medical devices that are custom-made to treat your individual foot imbalance. Custom orthotics function on your feet in the same way that glasses work on your eyes: they minimize stress and strain on your body by re-aligning your feet so that the appropriate muscles work at the right time, decreasing tiredness and allowing them to be used more efficiently. The bespoke orthotics’ plastic body assists in re-aligning the foot by diverting and minimizing specific movements that occur during the gait cycle. Custom orthotics are as comfortable as insoles and have the added benefit of being constructed from exact impressions of your foot.

A casting of your feet is combined with a static and dynamic scan of them with the GaitScanTM to create your bespoke orthotics. The TOG GaitScanTM is a cutting-edge diagnostic equipment and digital casting technology that enables practitioners to assess member biomechanics and order specific orthotic items. GaitScanTM is the market leader in dynamic scanning capabilities, with 4096 sensors and a scan rate of 300 frames per second.

What does this have to do with you? A dynamic scan, a novel, in-depth approach of measuring your gait cycle, provides your health care practitioner with access to a variety of information that cannot be gained with the naked eye. Over a million data points are collected, revealing subtle defects in your biomechanics and casting light on problems that, if left unchecked, might evolve into painful disorders over time.