Post Polio Syndrome

Custom Made Braces 

1. FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE

Custom-made devices play a transformative role in achieving functional independence for individuals with unique physical needs. These tailored solutions are designed to restore or enhance mobility, dexterity, and the ability to perform daily tasks, empowering individuals to live more self-sufficient and fulfilling lives.

Key contributions of custom-made devices to functional independence include:

  1. Restoring Mobility: Personalized orthotic or assistive devices enable natural and efficient movement, reducing reliance on external support.

  2. Supporting Activities of Daily Living: Devices are designed to address specific functional challenges, allowing individuals to perform essential tasks like walking, dressing, or working with ease.

  3. Improving Comfort and Fit: Customization ensures that devices fit seamlessly with the user’s body, minimizing discomfort and maximizing usability.

  4. Enhancing Confidence: A device that works effectively and blends aesthetically contributes to emotional well-being and encourages greater engagement in social and professional activities.

  5. Preventing Secondary Issues: Properly designed devices help avoid complications such as pressure sores, joint strain, or postural imbalances, ensuring long-term independence.

By addressing each individual's unique needs and goals, custom-made devices empower users to take control of their lives, achieve greater autonomy, and participate fully in the world around them. 

2. COMFORT 

For individuals with uncorrected disabilities, comfort is paramount to maintaining a high quality of life. Accommodative solutions focus on providing stability, reducing pain, and minimizing the physical strain associated with fixed or uncorrected impairments.

Key aspects of comfort through accommodation include:

  1. Customized Support: Tailored orthotic devices, such as braces or insoles, are designed to fit the individual’s unique anatomy, distributing pressure evenly and preventing discomfort.

  2. Pain Relief: Accommodative devices alleviate pressure points and reduce strain on muscles and joints, helping to manage chronic pain effectively.

  3. Improved Mobility: By providing support and balance, these devices enable smoother and more natural movement, allowing individuals to engage in daily activities with greater ease.

  4. Prevention of Secondary Issues: Proper accommodation helps prevent complications such as skin breakdown, joint misalignment, or further physical deterioration.

  5. Emotional Well-being: The sense of ease and relief from discomfort fosters confidence and a positive outlook, empowering individuals to live with dignity.

Accommodating uncorrected disabilities with well-designed solutions ensures that individuals can navigate their lives more comfortably, maintaining independence and enhancing overall well-being.

3. Prevent Disability progression

Custom-made devices play a vital role in the correction of physical deformities by providing targeted support, alignment, and functionality. These devices are meticulously designed to address the specific needs of each individual, promoting gradual improvement in posture, movement, and overall physical health.

Key benefits of using custom-made devices for deformity correction include:

  1. Precise Alignment: Devices such as braces, splints, or orthotic supports are designed to gradually realign bones, joints, or soft tissues, addressing deformities like scoliosis, limb length discrepancies, or joint misalignments.

  2. Improved Posture and Functionality: By correcting deformities, these devices restore natural body mechanics, enhancing mobility and reducing strain on surrounding muscles and joints.

  3. Pain Reduction: Properly fitted devices alleviate discomfort caused by deformities, improving the individual’s comfort during daily activities.

  4. Prevention of Progression: Early intervention with custom devices can prevent the worsening of deformities, reducing the risk of secondary complications.

  5. Collaboration with Healthcare Professionals: Custom devices are developed in partnership with orthopedic specialists, physiotherapists, and other professionals to ensure they meet the patient’s medical and functional needs.

By offering personalized solutions that address both form and function, custom-made devices empower individuals to achieve long-term improvement, enhanced mobility, and a better quality of life.

Contact us today for a biomechanical assessment, 3D scans and personalised design of the orthotic device.

FAQ

What does the process of designing a custom orthotic device involve?

The first stage involves a biomechanical assessment consisting of a foot and visual gait exam and a footwear evaluation. The second step entails taking a 3D scan of the feet. Finally, the impression is sent to the lab to produce the product.

What makes our orthotics different?

Our orthotic devices are a blend of recycled, organic materials aimed at reducing our carbon footprint. Usually, common materials used to create orthoses include thermoplastics, metal and Plaster of Paris (PoP). However, these devices are tweaked or substituted to promote sustainability and improve the patient’s experience. For example, PoP has been replaced with advanced computer design, so the body is scanned, and a replica of foam is made; this is vastly different from the body being wrapped in a bandage made of plaster.

Do orthotic devices hurt the knees?

Custom-made orthotic devices are uniquely designed to meet your postural needs. Shoe inserts are made to relieve foot pain and strain. If these inserts do not fit, this will result in knee pain and knee instability.

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