Taking care of your feet helps with your overall health. Good foot health promotes an active lifestyle and enables you to maintain mobility into older age, increasing your general health and wellbeing. Here at Foot Solutions, we can help you look after your feet with a full foot assessment that includes looking at your lifestyle habits, listening to your concerns and using advanced foot scans to gain deeper insight into your unique foot structure.
“It’s important to note that these scans are separate from our gait analysis – they complement it, but are not part of the same process.“
While gait analysis helps us understand how your feet move, our proprietary 3D laser scanning, pressure mapping, and design technology give us a precise picture of your foot’s shape and needs. This combination allows our foot-wellness experts to craft personalised solutions designed specifically for you. Since no two feet are the same, a customised approach is far more effective at relieving foot pain and improving overall comfort than generic, off-the-shelf products.
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Why do I need a Foot Assessment?
If you are experiencing pain in your feet, legs or lower back, you may find that small adjustments to your gait or your footwear can make a huge difference. Using custom-made orthotics or finding footwear that provides cushioning in the right places for the contours of your feet can transform the way you feel, and our customers are often amazed at the way their pain disappears with such small but important adjustments.
A free foot assessment can identify the cause of any foot pain, and our experienced foot wellness experts can suggest ways to improve it. Some solutions may work immediately, while others may take some time. A foot assessment can also be helpful if you are looking for specific footwear, such as training shoes for an endurance event or comfortable walking shoes for a holiday.
What is a Foot Assessment?
If you have never had a foot assessment before, it can help you to know what to expect. A foot assessment at Foot Solutions usually takes around 20-45 minutes and is carried out as follows:
- Understanding your lifestyle. The first step in any foot assessment is to listen to your experiences. Here, we will take the time to understand any concerns you have or foot pain you are experiencing, or any particular fitness goals you are aiming for. Whether you are planning an extended walking challenge or simply want to move around your home without pain, our highly trained experts will gather a picture of your lifestyle, and this will inform their suggestions and recommendations.
- Evaluating your foot biomechanics. Biomechanics simply refers to the way your body works, including the way the muscles, bones, tendons and ligaments work in conjunction with each other to enable movement. Since each foot contains 26 bones, 33 joints and more than one hundred muscles, ligaments and tendons, there is a lot of potential for damage! The feet have complex structures and bear a great deal of weight in daily life, so they need to be working well to prevent injury and pain. Understanding the way your foot moves can enable us to identify any areas in which you need more support, and this can inform our recommendations for custom-made orthotics or footwear that suits your foot better.
- Observing your gait pattern. Your gait pattern is the way you move when you walk, jog or run, and a cycle of gait can be measured from the moment you place the heel of one foot on the ground until the same heel is placed on the ground again. Your gait is a result of the way your bones, joints and muscles work together, and our foot wellness experts will be looking for any changes or inconsistencies in your gait which may compromise your comfort. Your gait may change as you age, and this may mean that changes to your footwear give you better support and counter any pain you experience.
- Making recommendations. Once we have carried out our foot examination and observations, we can make recommendations to suit your unique foot shape and lifestyle. We can suggest solutions for any problems that are causing you pain or discomfort, and we can take a look at the options to provide the most comfortable, supported footwear for you. Our solutions might include custom-made orthotics, which are small inserts that are shaped to give you more support where you need it most. In the process of making these devices, we take moulds from your feet so that we can assure a perfect fit. This means that you are provided with a custom-made solution that is especially for you, and this can be life-changing. We may also suggest changing your footwear to a type that is better suited to your feet, and you are likely to notice the difference immediately.
After your foot assessment, we will be able to offer you the benefit of our expertise so that you find solutions that work for your feet. Many of our customers are surprised and delighted by the difference our recommendations can make, and we keep in touch after purchase to ensure that your foot wellness plan continues to help you maintain your foot health.
How do I book a Foot Assessment?
It is easy to book a free Foot Assessment at your local Foot Solutions store, and you can do this on our website, by calling us or by popping in to see us in person. We will ensure that you feel comfortable throughout the process.
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