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Why Your Physical Therapist Should Hear About Your Shoes

Why Your Physical Therapist Should Hear About Y...

October is National Physical Therapy Month. The American Physical Therapy Association uses it to remind everyone that physical therapy is not just something you do after an injury, but something...

Why Your Physical Therapist Should Hear About Y...

October is National Physical Therapy Month. The American Physical Therapy Association uses it to remind everyone that physical therapy is not just something you do after an injury, but something...

Boot Season With a Leg Brace

Boot Season With a Leg Brace

Somewhere around the third week of September, the Pacific Northwest remembers what it is. The sky turns the color of wet concrete, the rain settles in for its nine-month residency,...

Boot Season With a Leg Brace

Somewhere around the third week of September, the Pacific Northwest remembers what it is. The sky turns the color of wet concrete, the rain settles in for its nine-month residency,...

Why Braces Wear Out the Backs of Shoes

Why Braces Wear Out the Backs of Shoes

If you wear a brace and your shoes keep failing at the heel, it is probably not the shoes. Here is what is actually happening, and what stops it.

Why Braces Wear Out the Backs of Shoes

If you wear a brace and your shoes keep failing at the heel, it is probably not the shoes. Here is what is actually happening, and what stops it.

Helping Someone With a Brace Get Their Shoes On

Helping Someone With a Brace Get Their Shoes On

A guide for family members, spouses and care aides — how to help without taking over, what makes the job physically easier, and how to hand the task back when you can.

Helping Someone With a Brace Get Their Shoes On

A guide for family members, spouses and care aides — how to help without taking over, what makes the job physically easier, and how to hand the task back when you can.

How to Choose Shoes That Fit Over a Leg Brace

How to Choose Shoes That Fit Over a Leg Brace

Depth, width, closures, sizing, and the features that actually matter when you are buying footwear to go over a brace — from someone who has fitted them for decades.

How to Choose Shoes That Fit Over a Leg Brace

Depth, width, closures, sizing, and the features that actually matter when you are buying footwear to go over a brace — from someone who has fitted them for decades.

A Guide to Leg Braces and the Footwear Problems They Create

A Guide to Leg Braces and the Footwear Problems...

Ankle-foot orthoses, carbon braces, walking boots, leather gauntlets — each one changes what footwear works and why. A plain-language guide to the main types and what they mean for your shoes.

A Guide to Leg Braces and the Footwear Problems...

Ankle-foot orthoses, carbon braces, walking boots, leather gauntlets — each one changes what footwear works and why. A plain-language guide to the main types and what they mean for your shoes.