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What's foot orthosis?


              A foot orthosis is a device that is applied to the foot. The possible functions may be follows, evenly distribute weight bearing forces over plantar surface, relieved pain from painful sensitive areas, support arches of foot, decrease amount or rate of hyperpronation in walking or running, accommodate congenital foot deformity, compensate for leg length discrepancy, decrease some weight bearing stresses at specific joints. Pathologies that we will make a foot orthosis for patient such as pes planus, pes cavus, metatarsalgia, painful heel.
       The orthotic intervention needs a clear understanding of pathology, daily activities and materials and techniques for making.
       Insole is one orthotic solution for the foot, this design is simple to manufacture and fit, can be made to fill the entire length of the shoe or be ¾ in length. Usually for provide support of longitudinal and transverse arches. Rigid, semi-rigid, flexible materials can be used. It is indicated for mild arch instability, mild sub-talar instability, and insensate foot. But it is contraindications for moderate or severe arch instability and moderate or severe sub-talar instability.
        Casting is one of the processes to make insole. The  purpose of the casting procedure is to obtain the accurate alignment and shape of the patient’s feet that for capture the foot in most functional position, subtalar neutral is the main objective, secondly is forefoot neutral.
        There are a variety of methods for taking an impression of the foot to send to a laboratory for fabrication of orthosis. The most popular, and probably the most accurate, method remains the plaster cast. The application of the plaster bandage to the foot can be done in variety of ways, such as circumferential wrap or slab casting. Plaster casting is the optimum method of capturing the foot in subtalar joint neutral. it have most ability to capture the needed areas more proximally, such as for heel-foot type of devices. Plaster bandage techniques can do either non-weight bearing with the patient lying in supine or prone position and partial weight bearing with patient sitting. But patient may need to use plastic wrap to cover their skin and orthotist may need to use glove to prevent dirty from plaster using.
negative cast from plaster casting

        A second option is the foam impression method to get an impression of the foot in a partial weight bearing position. A semi-weight bearing may often better capture the location of a bony prominence, callus, or fibrous tissue mass. So the foam impression technique tends to have more soft tissue deformation on the plantar surface, which simulates the soft tissue changes taking place in weight bearing and this reduces the amount of modification needed to account for this. The one disadvantage of this method is that more proximal contours (e.g. calcaneus) are not captured as well.
negative cast from foam impression casting

positive cast

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