Patent ID: 7938788

Claim:
A method for classifying foot types based on positional measurements of a human foot comprising the steps of: with a patient in a supine position, a. measuring a Rearfoot Supinatory End Range of Motion position in the foot and determining whether the position is one of inverted or everted; b. measuring a Rearfoot Pronatory End Range of Motion position in the foot with reference to a bisection of the lower one third of a patient's leg after applying an eversion force upon the Calcaneous until it can no longer move, and determining whether the position is one of inverted, perpendicular or everted; c. measuring a Forefoot Supinatory End Range of Motion position in the foot with reference to the foot's fifth metatarsal after applying a plantarflectory force downward upon the foot's first metatarsal from above until it can no longer move and determining whether the position is one of dorsiflexed or plantarflexed; d. measuring a Forefoot Pronatory End Range of Motion position in the foot with reference to the fifth metatarsal after applying a dorsiflectory force upward upon the first metatarsal from below until it can no longer move and determining whether the position is one of dorsiflexed, vertical or plantarflexed; and e. classifying the foot into a distinct foot type selected from a group of sixteen different foot types, each of said sixteen foot types being determined based on the position of the foot according to results of steps a) through d).