Opioid Addiction Stories – being on the front line of managing patients with opioid addiction

Opioid and heroin addiction is unfortunately all too common, and this addiction is mean.   It changes people in a way that is almost incomprehensible.  In my practice, I’m confronted every day with decisio...

Can a Lateral Sole Wedge Insert be worn with a Prescription Orthotic?

Lateral Sole Wedge Inserts are used and recommended to limit supination of the foot. Excessive supination leads to biomechanical overload of the medial knee making patients prone to early-onset osteoarthritis of the knee.  By lim...

Levers, rockers and carbon graphite insoles

Part 3 – Putting it all together

In part 1 of this conversation I presented a common customer question:  can I wear just one carbon fiber insole?  I briefly discussed gait and how a carbon fiber insole may affect gait.  In part 2 of this conversation, I ...