Orthotics -who needs them and why?
Most people who suffer from chronic or re-occurring muscular skeletal pain could benefit from Kinetic Orthotic therapy.

Orthotic therapy is a form of treatment that began around the principle of using a form of splint to support and influence the foot in order to alter foot function. The idea is that when foot function is altered in a positive way the patients presenting muscular skeletal pain can be reduced or even totally resolved.

Like most things, the more the understanding of how feet function and how their function effects the rest of the muscular skeletal system has evolved. The approach to the way orthotics are designed and manufactured has also evolved. The ability to predictably alter foot function is now the key driving aspect in the technical development of Kinetic Orthotics. We use the latest computer technology to accurately improve orthotic design variables. This technology is also used to reduce the lack of reliability inherent in the traditional manufacturing process. Our goal is to take the pseudoscientific art driven approach and develop it into a true scientific method of treatment.

Feet are the foundation on which we stand, walk, run and play. When you stop to think about how much even the average person uses their feet for locomotion alone, is over 10,000 foot strikes a day. Every one of these movements can add up to a considerable contribution in stress to the muscular skeletal system. Furthermore, just think of how much more the stress and pain could be magnified if the feet were unstable or imbalance.

The human body has a remarkable ability to adapt and compensate for muscular skeletal imbalance. The only problem is that compensation to avoid pain in one area can lead to pain in another area. Often treatment solely aimed at the muscular imbalance in one-area can lead to either temporary resolution in that area or a gradual shift of stress and pain to a new area altogether. If treatment does not involve the effective diagnosis of the cause of muscular skeletal imbalances people can be treated over a number of years for pains in their knees, hips, or back whilst the feet are completely ignored. In other cases, the feet are treated poorly, further compounding the complexity of the ongoing symptoms or creating a compelling false hood that their role is irrelevant.

Kinetic Orthotic therapy has evolved over ten years of research dedicated to understanding how orthotic design can predictably improve muscular skeletal alignment. A unique manufacturing processes was developed and combined with set protocol for fitting and follow up so as to effectively apply the maximum benefit of the orthotic design to predictably alter function.

Come and experience the Kinetic Orthotic difference today - it may well change your life.

With are liable product it becomes increasingly feasible for the practitioner to specify and apply the kind of orthotic control you need. The clear goal of Kinetic Orthotic therapy can be defined. The goal of Kinetic Orthotic therapy is to resolve supination resistance and facilitate a smooth and efficient transfer of kinetic force during the gait cycle.

Our approach to achieving this goal has been based on an analysis of the way energy is transferred in the foot during the gait cycle as described from different planar perspectives, and then deriving a cohesive theoretical model. The theory behind this reasoning is called Kinetic Theory.

Kinetic Theory is based on the idea that in order to have a gait cycle that minimises bio mechanical inefficiencies it is necessary to balance the ground reaction forces with the postural compensation forces in such a way as to maximise the net transfer of kinetic energy required for locomotion. This is to optimise the partition of energy into locomotion and minimise the disbursement of errant energy into alternative bio mechanical sinks with possibly pathological results.

Over the past seven years of clinically testing and evolving this product on over 7,000 individuals it has now become possible to use a specific treatment protocol in conjunction with the product to achieve extremely reliable results.This evolving understanding has lead to the development of a unique treatment protocol that, when used with the product, delivers more consistent and predictable change in a patient's gait. In fact the combination of the design and manufacturing system with the evolved protocol allows for any new user of the system with minimal training to achieve the same outcome as anyone else. The unique qualities of the product allows for a wide degree of specific adjustments that can be made as part of a method of progressive function adaption of the foot due to the influence of the kinetic orthotics.

Kinetic Orthotics are more than a prescription made orthotic device, we provide a total treatment system that offers guaranteed results in applications where poor functional bio mechanical alignment is a primary cause of existing pathology.