Foot Levelers Custom Orthotics Make All the Difference

Foot Levelers custom orthotics simply work. Our process results in the highest-quality, most comfortable custom orthotic on the market.

Foot Levelers custom orthotics are individually designed for your feet – helping achieve a balanced foundation and stabilized pelvis. Our custom orthotics are handmade for your unique feet based on 3D scans or casts, and your doctor’s exam.

Only Foot Levelers custom orthotics support all 3 arches of the foot, which make up the plantar vault. Since our orthotics are custom-made by hand from scans or casts of your feet, no two pairs of Foot Levelers custom orthotics are alike! Innovations like 3-Arch Support, and high quality materials and scanning technology, enable a uniqueness to each orthotic – shaped and crafted to your individual feet – resulting a much higher-quality orthotic that also happens to be extremely effective in reducing low back pain and other forms of pain typically related to foot conditions.


Understanding Your Feet

Are your feet healthy? Flat feet, foot pronation, or foot imbalances can lead to foot pain, knee pain, hip pain, back pain, and even shoulder pain.

If you are considering individually designed Custom Orthotics, a health care professional can perform a foot scan to show you how imbalances in the feet can lead to problems in the knees, hips, back and shoulders. The foot scan will show how Functional Orthotics may help. Following a foot scan, a report will provide you a Pronation/Stability Index, a Foot Assessment, and a Body Assessment.


THE OPTIMAL FOOT

This image shows what the optimal foot looks like. The red areas represent where pressure on your foot should be – your toes, the balls of your foot, and heel. However, 99% of feet do not look like this.


THE FLAT FOOT

This image shows what flat feet look like on the scanner. In this example, all three arches of the foot have collapsed. Once your arches collapse it throws the rest of your body off-kilter when you move, putting you at a higher risk for pain. This includes pain in the feet, knees, hips, back, and neck.


Your Body

The body assessment image shows how imbalances in the feet can lead to knee rotation, pelvic tilt and shoulder drop. These imbalances in the body can be caused by pronation and supination of the foot.

These instabilities can lead to conditions such as plantar fasciitis, knee pain, hip pain, back pain, and neck pain.

A properly aligned body will have symmetrical feet, level knees, pelvis and shoulders. Wearing Custom Orthotics may help alleviate imbalances and conditions caused by those imbalances.


Achilles Tendonitis is most commonly found in individuals aged 30-40, with 90% of these cases occurring during sport/exercise. It’s most frequently brought on by excessive physical training (in particular running or lunging) or by wearing inappropriate footwear while training.

 Achilles tendonitis usually occurs due to overuse and is most commonly reported in athletes—most frequently, runners. It's also common in middle-aged “weekend warriors” who engage in sports.


Achilles tendonitis is most commonly found in individuals aged 30-40, with 90% of these cases occurring during sport/exercise. It’s most frequently brought on by excessive physical training (in particular running or lunging) or by wearing inappropriate footwear while training. The condition usually develops over a course of weeks or months, with pain and stiffness gradually worsening. Without proper treatment, the condition may become chronic.


Drop foot (or foot drop) is a general term in which the lifting of the forefoot (front part of the foot) is difficult. Drop foot is not a diagnosis in and of itself; rather, it is a symptom associated with an underlying neurological, muscular or anatomical problem, including nerve or muscle injury or disorder or a brain/spinal cord disorder, including Herniated disc, Spinal Stenosis, Spondylolisthesis, and Vertebral Fractures. Walking Is made difficult, so the foot might drag on the floor. Those suffering from drop foot may also attempt to compensate by raising the thigh up in an exaggerated fashion while walking, as if climbing the stairs. High steppage gait is the most common symptom of drop foot. 

Leg length inequality, or leg length discrepancy, may affect as many as 60 to 90 percent of the population.  Categorized as either functional or structural, both have profound effects on the body's biomechanics and may result in back pain, the most common symptom. Other resulting conditions include arthritis of the knee, psoasitis, arthritis of the hip, patellar tendinitis, patellofemoral pain syndrome, plantar fasciitis, medial tibial stress syndrome and metatars, iliotibial band syndrome with lateral knee pain, trochanteric bursitis, sacroiliac discomfort, Achilles tendinitis and cuboid syndrome.

The body can tolerate such leg inequality for short periods, but over time, subtle and serious biomechanical problems throughout the body can occur.  Its ability to adapt to abnormal stress may be overwhelmed and the surrounding soft tissues become exhausted.  Consequently, routine movements require greater muscular effort and energy, and endurance is reduced.  Excessive stress is transmitted to the ligaments, creating a vicious cycle of misalignment, muscle fatigue, and ligamentous stress.


Running hurts. Plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis, medial tibial stress syndrome, metatarsalgia. And one of the most recognized ‘injuries,’ runner’s knee. But in fact, runner’s knee is not an injury in of itself. It’s a generally broad description of knee pain caused by other knee injuries, including iliotibial band syndrome, patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS), and/or chondromalacia patella.

Some estimates put the number of runners who are sidelined annually by injuries, including knee injury, at 90%.

Runner’s knee, poor biomechanics and overuse injury

Runner’s knee is almost always attributed to one of two things (or both for that matter): poor biomechanics and/or overuse.

Feet are the foundation…of pain


When a foot is severely “pronated,” it means its arches have fallen and the foot is flat. Flat feet are less shock-absorbent, and make for a less stable “base” for everything above—the bones, muscles, ligaments and tendons of the entire body. They can also:


Sciatica (pronounced sigh-at-eh-kah) refers to sensations of tingling, numbness, or weakness that originate in the lower back and travel through the buttock and down the large sciatic nerve in the back of each leg. It is a symptom of an underlying condition; not a diagnosis in and of itself. A number of common lower back problems can cause sciatica including a lumbar herniated disc, degenerative disc disease, sacroiliac joint dysfunction, pregnancy, spinal tumor, infection, muscle strain, and a number of other conditions.

Your doctor’s approach to treating sciatica will depend on the underlying cause. In most cases, it is more likely to be successful when the focus is on restoring balanced function in the entire body—starting from the ground up—rather than simply reducing the pain and inflammation in the irritated tissues. Chiropractic care plus custom orthotics can help.


Also known as “heel pain syndrome,” plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain, resulting from a gradual degeneration of the plantar fascia or sudden trauma to the area. Patients may describe the sensation as sharp stab or deep ache in the middle of the heel or along the bottom of the foot that typically occurs during walking or standing.

Pain often occurs early in the morning, when taking your first few steps out of bed, or after other long periods of sitting/lying down/non-activity. As the foot naturally tightens at night, the fascia may gain new tears in the morning, initiating a painful cycle. Appearing in one heel or both, the condition tends to be chronic and can be difficult to heal without a combination of conservative treatments and persistence.


A heel spur is a degenerative outgrowth of bone on the calcaneus. While the heel spur itself is sometimes painless, the condition is commonly associated with Plantar Fasciitis.

When there is an increase in tensile stress on the fascia under the longitudinal arch, a low-grade inflammation develops at the point of attachment on the calcaneus.1 If the increased stress and inflammation continues, calcium is deposited, and a bony outcropping builds up.

Studies suggest that heel spurs themselves are not what causes pain; rather, spurs occur in 50-75% of heels afflicted with painful plantar fasciitis, (though they have also been found in up to 63% of asymptomatic heels). Those who suffer from heel spurs often report a sharp pain in the heel, which may radiate to the bottom of the foot.

Symptoms can interfere significantly with walking, especially with the first steps out of bed in the morning. Palpation of the foot will result in pain and tenderness with direct pressure over the medial tubercle of the calcaneus.


**Your feet don’t have to hurt to be causing problems in other areas of your body. “Asymptomatic” (symptom-free) feet do NOT equal problem-free feet. Mis-positioned joints may not be painful, but they can cause biomechanical issues, neurological deficits and other problems throughout the body. Foot Levelers custom orthotics, Shoethotics® and Sandalthotics® can help by properly supporting and positioning the feet—and we’ve got the research to prove it. 

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