13 Categories of Foot Conditions Requiring Bespoke Orthopedic Shoes
Channel: Orthopedic Shoe Making
Date: 2019-05-01

Although the last is the core element of orthopedic footwear, it is only one third of the process, the other two being the uppers and the soles plus heels. Bill Bird explains how the shoe has to mimic the intent of the last.

In this video Bill explains how he has catalogued over 60 conditions that effect the feet in such a way that they are in pain walking and need shoes to be specially made. All these conditions can be placed into 1 or more of just 8 treatment categories:

1. Chronic Soft Tissue Swelling
2. Fragile skin
3. Anasthesaea
4. Chronic Internal Pain
5. Hypermobility
6. First Degree Deformity
7. Second Degree Deformity
8. Third Degree Deformity

In addition to the last which has been the focus of much of these videos so far, there are 13 elements bespoke orthopedic footwear design:

1. Style
2. Upper Materials
3. Lining Materials
4. Appliques & Findings
5. Insoles
6. Inserts & Corks
7. Stiffeners
8. Toe Puff
9. Welts
10. Soles
11. Waist
12. Heels
13. Top Piece