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This innovative orthotic treatment challenges conventional ideas & myths on sports shoes, sports medicine and orthopedics. Rely on this advice & shoe guide.

This scientifically advanced orthotics treatment changes peoples lives but the success is completely under your control/dependant on you:

The orthotic devices are only effective in correcting posture with the support of strong soled shoes.

That does not mean fairly strong, it means rigid and not able to be bent or twisted through the middle of the shoe. Flimsy or soft shoes must be replaced. Sports shoes are often too soft or have ill conceived gadgets and existing sports shoes may have to be replaced if their design is inappropriate.

Improvements in your condition then depend on your constant use of the orthotics.

Orthotics should be worn constantly. Some people may only consider that they suffer problems during exercise but most of us eventually have knee, hip or back problems that affect our daily life and the orthotic devices need to be worn constantly in strong soled shoes to realign your posture and prevent the injury and wear which otherwise accumulates faster than our body can repair. When you take the orthotics off you immediately revert to your unhealthy alignment, your knee and hip click out and your spine slips out of alignment again. Despite popular myths you may have heard, the muscles cannot sustain the effort and there is nothing in the neuromuscular system which tells them how hard to pull to hold you straight. The skeleton is your framework, only the orthotics realign it. People who exercise should still wear the devices at other times to be realigned during 'incidental' daily activity which can be significant in causing further damage.

Special exercises are not required as the skeleton is our framework and when realigned by the Orthotic devices normal exercise and incidental daily activity will work and build muscles in correct balance.

Existing problems. The orthotic devices realign posture to achieve healthy function in joints and muscles preventing injury and wear, allowing the body to begin to heal. How long this takes depends on the nature and severity of the problem and your involvment.

The ambitious devices are suited to roomy sports/casual shoes and will not fit the shape of a pointy women’s fashion shoe. Women with bad angles of correction will have to re-evaluate their idea of fashion in order to solve their problems. Square or rounded toe accommodating fashion shoes bought larger may suit the orthotics. Dress orthosis can be made to more easily fit sensible dress shoes, still bought slightly larger. Correction is reduced but significant for when less active. The ambitious orthotics are more effective and should still be the preferred orthotics.

Shoes. The devices take up room depending on the degree of correction an individual requires. New shoes may be required but the long term benefits in health and lifestyle make it worthwhile, nothing else will work. Try the devices in shoes when buying them, removing any loose inner sole. Buy shoes to achieve depth not wider as you will slide around in the shoes. Having purchased shoes, tear out any glued-in lining to create room and avoid interference. Look for models that hold you at the heel, if you find they do slip have heel grips fitted at the top edge.

Sandals with removable inner soles are available, they are not strong but better than you going barefoot. Try them on and see if your ankles & knees are straight. If they seem O.K. you could try them and see if the orthotics still work for you and your problems are improving. Otherwise get more strict and back into strong lace ups again.

Replace or repair shoes with existing wear, e.g. outside edge of heel.

How will it feel? These ambitious Orthotic devices are the correction required to realign your posture to achieve results. It may feel strange and exaggerated at first but this is what is necessary and you will become accustomed to it The orthotics significantly realign your posture to achieve results and our body only knows what has been familiar. You may feel very strange, even slightly uncomfortable until you become accustomed to the new posture. Some tight muscles will have to stretch, others that have not been aligned to take their share of work before, will now feel the effect.

Spine adjustment. If you feel the need, get adjusted. It will be more effective and hold much longer than before because your Orthotic devices realign and stabilise the entire lower skeleton including the pelvis, giving stability to the spine and a chance to hold alignment and improve.

How long do they last? 2 to 3 years depending on how they are treated and used, i.e. the level of activity and weight of the individual. While you are problem free, they are obviously working. When symptoms start to return it is time for them to be replaced. Your casts are usually kept at the workshop for around 4 years, except with the young (still growing) or the elderly with skeletal deterioration. Contact the clinic regarding subsequent sets of orthotic devices.

How to care for the Orthotic devices. Do not use chemicals. Keep away from fires and heaters! May be washed under the tap with mild soap and allowed to dry gently.

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