PATIENT SELECTION
Elite, amateur or professional athletes and other active patients.
BIOMECHANICAL INDICATIONS
Sport Orthotics |
- All rearfoot and forefoot deformities
- Congenital gastrocnemus equinus
- Shin Splints
- Chondromalacia
- Plantar fasciitis
- Low back pain
- Neuroma
CONTROL
Semi-flexible.
MATERIALS
Five different grades of polypropolene are used with the appropriate selection being based on the patient's activity.
ADDITIONS FOR SPECIFIC SPORTS
| Golf: | Forefoot extension, intrinsic rearfoot posting. |
| Tennis: | Forefoot extension. |
| Marathon: | Longitudinal arch re-enforcement, forefoot extension with forefoot posting. |
| Ski: | Forefoot extension. |
| Sprinter: | High-flex (1/16" polypropolene shell) PoronTM arch fill, extensions with forefoot posting. |
POSTING
Materials vary according to the sport from white styrene butadiene rubber varying from 26-60 duro-meter, to an open cell sponge rubber. Posts are covered with an unbreakable rubber or polypropolene.
GUARANTEE
Lifetime guarantee against breakage with normal wear.
"The difference between Paragon's sport orthotic and my previous ones, is like the difference between night and day."
Mr. J.A. Bones