Custom orthotics made from a scan of your own feet, for the aches that start at the ground and travel up. Fitted in Kettering alongside chiropractic care, so the support matches how you actually stand and walk.
Custom orthotics are shoe inserts made to the shape of your own feet rather than pulled off a shelf. They are used when the way your feet load the ground is part of why something further up keeps getting irritated, and they are fitted alongside hands-on care rather than instead of it.
Feet are easy to leave out of the conversation, right up to the point where a knee, a hip, or a low back will not settle and nobody can say why. Here is a plain-language look at what custom orthotics are, how they are made, who tends to be fitted for them, and what to expect once you have them.
A custom orthotic is an insert made to the contours of one particular foot. That is the whole difference from the arch supports sold in a pharmacy, which are made to an average and then sized up or down. Your feet are not an average, and if one of them loads differently from the other, an off-the-shelf pair carries that difference straight into your shoe.
They are worn in your ordinary shoes, and most people move them between two or three pairs rather than buying new ones.
Feet come into it more often than people expect, and usually because something else has not settled:
Not everyone with sore feet needs them, and part of a first visit is saying so when that is the honest answer.
The fitting itself is short and there is nothing to recover from. We look at how you stand and walk, take a scan or an impression of both feet, and send that away to be made up. When they arrive we check them in your own shoes and adjust the fit if anything rubs or sits oddly.
New orthotics are usually worn in gradually, an hour or two a day at first, because your feet are being asked to load in a slightly different way. That is normal and it settles.
No referral is needed, and we will go over the costs with you up front, so there are no surprises.
Coverage for orthotics varies a great deal between plans, and some do not cover them at all. We will tell you what yours says before anything is ordered rather than after.
Three things that change what an adjustment is worth.
The adjustment is matched to what your spine is actually doing that day, rather than the same sequence for everyone who walks in.
Every visit starts by checking how you are moving, so what happens next is based on today rather than on your first appointment.
You leave with something to do between visits, which is what keeps the relief from wearing off by the next one.
No surprises, and nothing you have not agreed to.
Your first visit starts with history and questions, not an adjustment.
We look at how you move and work out whether this is something we can help with, or something that belongs with another provider.
You hear what we found, what we would suggest, and roughly how long before you should expect to notice a change.
Most people start with a short course of visits and taper as things settle and daily activity gets easier.
The 4 we are asked before almost every first visit.
Ask us directlyNew patients are welcome. Come as you are, we will take it from there.
Tell us a good time and we'll call to confirm.
