People who experience back pain, hip pain, and/or foot pain often turn to orthotics to help relieve their discomfort. At Northern Districts Physiotherapy, we adopt the latest in technology in health and diagnostic tools such as using Gaitscan to create custom orthotics.

What are custom orthotics?

Custom orthotics are an investment that pay your body back exponentially over time and helps save you money long-term. Non-custom orthotics, while cheaper, are often made with unreliable and lower quality material, are not designed to fix your specific issues, forcing you to spend more money to find relief.

When getting assessed for custom orthotics a scan of the feet is used to learn about each foot independently and collectively. These scans can highlight any differences between your feet like one being smaller, wider, or flatter than the other.

This information is essential to creating orthotics and helps achieve a result that over-the-counter orthotics simply cannot provide since both insoles in a package are the same, despite your two feet likely being different.

Are custom orthotics worth the price?

So, although non-custom orthotics may be less expensive, they are essentially like putting duct tape on your foundation and may not resolve the issue and/or cause more problems and greater costs in the future. Making the investment of custom orthotics, however, can help you find relief and avoid unnecessary spending and frustration.

The process of getting custom orthotics, including a foot scan, can provide you with important information to keep your body operating optimally, which is priceless. But, wearing custom orthotics can provide fast relief and prolonged comfort in your daily life.

If you’d like to book in for a foot scan, book your appointment at Northern Districts Physiotherapy and Sports Clinic with one of our friendly and experienced practitioners today.

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