New Treatment for the Feet

For years, Hosenfeld Chiropractic has evaluated feet through examination of the foot, ankle, knees, and pelvis in all movement patterns and has recently implemented a new revolutionary scanning method which scans your feet while weight bearing. This produces a color graphic picture that allows us to know how YOU distribute weight across your feet and subsequently how this relates to the structures above. This information provides our physicians the ability to more accurately diagnose and treat a wide variety of issues from plantar fasciitis, ankle pain, to knee, hip lower back and even neck pain. Also, it allows us to prescribe an orthotic insert, if needed, that is tailored for each individual needs. When combined with the proper exercise rehabilitation program, this has been shown numerous times to be a quick, efficient and effective way to correct a multitude of injuries.

To identify if you are a candidate to for this new treatment and scanning method, please contact our office today to set up a consultation with one of our physicians.

Foundation of your Body

Your feet are the foundation of your body. They support you when you stand, walk, or run. And they help protect your spine, bones, and soft tissues from damaging stress as you move around. Your feet perform better when all their muscles, arches, and bones are in their ideal stable positions.

The foot is constructed with three arches which, when properly maintained, give exceptional supportive strength. These three arches form a supporting vault that distributes the weight of the entire body.

If there is compromise of one arch in the foot, the other arches must compensate and are subject to additional stresses, which usually lead to further compromise.

It’s a chain reaction.

Healthcare professionals know alleviating pain in one part of your body often requires treating a different part. The pain you feel in your neck could be caused by a misalignment in your spine that is caused by unbalanced positioning in your feet. See? It’s a chain reaction.
By stabilizing and balancing your feet, Foot Levelers orthotics enhance your body’s performance and efficiency, reduce pain, and contribute to your total body wellness. Proper orthotics complement our treatment when you stand, walk, and live your active life.

Postural Effects from Imbalances in the Feet:
A loss of arch height will cause a flattening and rolling in of the foot— this is termed pronation. Because everything is connected, the bones of the leg also inwardly rotate.
Excessive rotation of the bones of the leg (tibia and femur) will cause unnecessary stresses on the knee as well as twisting of the pelvis and spine. If the pronation is more prevalent on one side, there can be a resultant unleveling of the pelvis and a functional scoliosis.
Tilting of the pelvis places tension on muscles and connective tissues, which can eventually lead to chronic back problems.

High levels of heel-strike shock can result from breakdown of the body’s natural “shock absorbers.” The shock wave then transmits up the kinetic chain causing painful symptoms all the way up to the head, slowed recovery of leg and spine injuries, and aggravation of other conditions.

How Spinal Pelvic Stabilizers Work:

Wearing Spinal Pelvic Stabilizers inside your shoes is similar to placing a shim beneath the leg of a wobbly table: it adds support to eliminate unwanted motion in the entire structure.
The foot is formed of three distinct arches, which create an architectural vault. The result of supporting these three arches is improved stability and postural integrity.
Flexible Spinal Pelvic Stabilizers encourage optimal muscle and nerve function by guiding the feet through a more normal pattern with each step taken.

About Foot Levelers’ Spinal Pelvic Stabilizers (SPS) Orthotics:

Using weightbearing impression images of the feet in the position of function (either from a foam casting kit or a digital scanning system), along with instructions from your physician.
Skilled laboratory technicians create unique Spinal Pelvic Stabilizers designed to correct and support areas of weakness.
 
The combination of flexible, yet supportive and durable construction materials ensure that the stabilizers will both guide the feet when walking and provide support during long periods of standing.

Unlike other stabilizing technologies, which use rigid materials to force the feet into a theoretical “ideal” position and may result in muscle atrophy and abnormal nerve proprioception, Foot Levelers’ allow controlled, supported movement for the dynamic human body.
(material Adapted from Footlevelers, Inc)