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Orthotics to the Rescue!

An orthotic is a shoe insert that has been custom molded to your foot to help your feet perform at their peak efficiency. Orthotics more correctly position the bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments of the feet to avoid and treat injuries or problems.

When these parts of the foot are well aligned, your feet and your entire superstructure will perform better. Wearing orthotics will eventually help to decrease or eliminate foot problems, as well as knee, hip and lower back problems that are the result of improper foot function and faulty foot mechanics. They will also help to alleviate fatigue of the legs and back that result from the use of using the wrong muscle at the wrong time.

Orthotics can correct these issues by changing the angle at which the foot strikes the ground, and changing the motion in the various joints of the foot. Orthotics are often prescribed following foot, knee, hip or lower back surgery, as well as in the treatment of heel pain and other pain issues of the feet and lower extremities.

Orthotics can help realign your skeletal posture to a more improved and efficient position, resulting in a more improved and efficient you! An orthotic specialist like Karen A. Langone DPM can help!

Every day you take 8,000 to 10,000 steps. With each step, your feet must bear several times your body weight. Structural imbalance of the foot causes the heel, ankle and leg to roll abnormally, causing muscles and joints to become displaced. As a result, the muscles, ligaments and bones work longer and harder and are out of sync with the rest of the joints in the body. Over time, this leads to fatigue and pain. No wonder your feet hurt!

Today's orthotics are built with aerospace materials to more comfortably realign and stabilize the foot for proper gait, balance and posture. Orthotics also activate and aid your body's natural shock absorbing mechanisms.

While over-the-counter "arch supports" help people with mild symptoms, they cannot address the more severe problems that prescription orthotics can. Orthotics can help your podiatrist to enable you to once again enjoy healthy feet and a healthy life!
Not always is medical treatment of the foot or ankle required to help resolve your podiatric issues. Sometimes a biomechanical treatment of the foot, ankle or lower extremities – such as through the use of orthotics – will help the patent most. An experienced podiatrist in New York (or more notably a sports and fitness medicine podiatrist) who is also an orthotic specialist can identify the solution that is best for your specific needs.

Find out if orthotics can help you! Today’s orthotics just might be the solution you have been searching for. Contact Dr. Karen A. Langone for an appointment today and start living a more pain free life tomorrow!

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