Description: Custom plastic bi-valve boot with rocker bottom sole; Can be made with custom insole; Fully padded
Function: Maintain foot and ankle stability; Prevent shear forces; protect limb; prescribed for patients who have foot ulcers or insensate feet; can be modified to unload weight at specific areas to grant opportunity for ulcer healing
Indication: Plantar ulcers; Charcot foot; Post-operative foot/ankle edema
Description: Contoured plastic; Custom molded to patient model; trimlines anterior to ankle to help control medial/lateral stability; optional custom insole
Function: Maintains ankle in neutral position during all phases of gait; Subtalar stabilization
Indication: Foot drop/weak dorsiflexion and/or weak plantarflexion; Ligament injury about the ankle; Mild knee instability
Rx: Diagnosis
Description: Contoured plastic; Custom molded to patient model; trimlines posterior to ankle; optional custom insole
Function: Maintains ankle in neutral position during all phases of gait;
Indication: Foot drop/weak dorsiflexion
Description: Two-piece Contoured plastic orthosis connected with joints at the ankle level; Custom molded to patient model; optional custom insole
Function: Provides Medial/lateral stability and plantarflexion/dorsiflexion control; Typically used to allow dorsiflexion and limit plantarflexion by means of a Plantarflexion stop; joints may assist or limit both dorsiflexion/plantar flexion
Indication: Drop foot secondary CVA, peroneal nerve injury,
Description: Custom plastic ankle foot orthosis with anterior shell; Custom molded to patient
Function: Decrease forces on plantar weight-bearing surface of heel, ankle, foot
Indication: Heal ulcers; Calcanectomy; Plantar skin graft; Severe foot/ankle trauma
Description: Walking boot with inflatable pneumatic bladdes to maintain contact for stability
Function: Total contact fit to reduce edema and shear forces with pneumatic bladder feature; Immobilizes leg like a cast, but can be removed to evaluate wounds; 90 degree fixation at ankle to reduce motion
Indication: Acute injuries (ligament sprains/tears); Post-operative stabilization or support; Fractures
Description: Double upright metal bars with ankle joints; Ankle joints are attached to a stirrup that may be attached to shoe or footplate; Custom fabricated to tracing of patient’s leg;
Function: Provides control to knee and ankle joints
Indication: Patients with weakened lower extremity and fluctuating edema, sensory or visual impairment, unable to tolerate total contact of plastic AFO or patient preference.
Our patient care facilities are all accredited by the American Board for Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics and Pedorthotics, Inc. (ABC). This means we have chosen to have our patient care centers measured against the most rigorous standards in the profession. We have the staff, equipment and expertise that ABC believes are important for the delivery of high quality patient care.