Patent ID: 7694437

Claim:
A shoe comprising to better define over the prior art of record: an orthotic footbed moldably configured with a three-dimensional, anatomically-shaped contour, the footbed having heel and toe portions extending from a metatarsal region, the heel portion having a first structural stiffness, the toe portion having a second structural stiffness different from the structural stiffness, and the metatarsal region having a structural stiffness sufficient to substantially maintain at least a vertical deformation of the toe portion relative to the heel portion after being loaded and unloaded; a chassis, moldably configured in conjunction with the orthotic footbed to nestingly and similarly conform therewith; and a shoe sole comprising a plurality of pods, each pod extending generally in a fore-aft direction and coupled to the chassis, wherein a first region of the chassis spans a first lateral distance between a forward pair of pods and a second region of the chassis spans a second lateral distance between a rearward pair of pods, the forward and rearward pairs of pods separated by an arch region of the chassis, wherein the footbed and chassis structurally and closely cooperate to selectively distribute weight to the plurality of pods while the footbed remains removable from the chassis.