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A source of relief for disruptive foot conditions, orthopedic custom golf shoes give you a competitive advantage from the ground up.
Exquisite finishing. Your choice of leathers.
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ORTHOPEDIC CUSTOM GOLF SHOES
Your power golf swing begins with how stable and comfortable your feet are transitioning through the swing cycle. Your short game demands competent stability. Imagine the orthopedic insight of a master pedorthist, combined with fine custom shoe making, at prices made more affordable due to advances in mass customization.
Boston Pedorthic is proud to present Otabo Custom Golf Shoes for discriminating golfers who wish to maximize their potential on the fairway and the green, all day from when you tee off to the final hole.
- Success Factors for Custom Golf Shoes
- Using Boston Pedorthic for Custom Golf Shoes
- Reasons for Orthopedic Custom Golf Shoes
Success Factors for Custom Golf Shoes
At its foundation, successful custom shoe making is complex, requiring a high degree of experience, skill and resources at all points along the process. A respected trade in Egypt 4000 years ago*, the process has been enhanced over time, but remains essentially as follows:
Success factors for the best custom shoes
Measuring and Detailing for Custom Shoes
- Your individual orthopedic requirements, knowledgeably determined - Faithful fabrication of a custom shoe last from which to build your custom shoe |
| Otabo Custom Manufacturing Process, from left to right: A laser-based optical scanner captures over 200,000 data points on your foot mold to create 3D digital models of each of your feet.
Lasts (the form on which your shoe is made) are digitally designed and sized, and then cut on a high speed, computer numerical control lathe. True 3D digital pattern making allows for flexibility in design and custom sizing. |
Using Boston Pedorthic for Custom Golf Shoes
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Contact Us at (617) 787-8779 to get started |
Boston Pedorthic routinely provides measuring and detailing for custom shoes, working with a variety of shoe makers, including:
1. Traditional custom shoe makers, building one custom shoe at a time, according to a pre-existing or new pattern.
2. Technology-driven custom shoe makers using mass customization processes to bring together highly skilled, computer trained technicians and engineers with traditional, hand-skilled shoemakers.
The process starts with an in-depth, pedorthic assessment to determine your foot condition. Beginning with a recounting of your history and symptoms, the pedorthist will examine your feet and your gait and then seek to determine the contribution your custom shoes can make toward your goals.
Why pedorthics? More prevalent in Europe and Canada than in the USA, a pedorthist is an allied health professional, focused on footwear, as it performs to meet the requirements of your individual foot condition. Pedorthists are highly skilled in evaluating shoes, fitting and detailing custom shoes, manufacturing custom foot orthotics and all manner of orthopedic modifications to shoes. Boston Pedorthic is an Accredited Facility by the American Board for Orthotics, Prosthetics and Pedorthics (ABC), and is a member of the Pedorthic Footwear Association (PFA) and the Diabetes Coalition of Massachusetts (DCOM).
Candidates for Orthopedic Custom Golf Shoes
Because of their expense, custom golf shoes for orthopedic purposes are a resource for truly enhanced comfort and structural support, and a prioritized option for the discriminating player. A skilled pedorthist can help you consider functional, off-the-shelf golf shoes or orthopedic modifications to golf shoes prior to considering custom golf shoes.
A skilled pedorthist can contribute as a member of your clinical team. It is always preferable to work with a medical prescription and detailed diagnosis from a qualified clinician like a physical therapist, physiatrist, orthopedic surgeon or podiatrist to best inform the design and purpose of your custom golf shoes.
If you are considering custom foot orthotics, you can also combine the Boston Pedorthic Advanced Custom Foot Orthotics with custom golf shoes, and many quality ready made golf shoes.
Among other conditions, the following are foot ailments routinely addressed with custom shoes:
| Achilles Tendonitis or Tendonosis
Amputations Ankle Fusions Arch Pain / Arch Strain Arthritis Big feet Bunions & Bunionettes Broken Bones Calluses Cerebral Palsy and other disease states producing foot deformity, gait anomaly, and pain.
Charcot FeetCharot Marie Tooth Claw Toes Congenital Deformities Corns Diabetes related risk factors to the feet Edema Foot deformity due to accidents, injuries
Fixed equinus deformity
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Gait anomaly producing instability resulting in “slip & fall risks Hallux Rigidus Hammer Toes Heel Pain Heel Spurs Hyper Pronation (Pes Planus) Hyper Supination (Pes Cavus) Instability. Specifically identified and diagnosed foot instability by a qualified doctor that can be favorably addressed with custom shoes. Leg length discrepancy Long feet Metatarsalgia Mismated feet; whereby one foot is sized differently than the other foot.
Morten’s ToeMultiple Sclerosis and other disease states producing foot deformity, gait anomaly, and pain.
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Narrow feet Narrow heels Neuropathy Pain. Foot pain, lower extremity pain or other pain helpfully addressed by astutely made custom shoes
Parkinson’s Diseaseand other disease states producing foot deformity, gait anomaly, and pain.
Pedal EdemaPeripheral Neuropathy Peroneal dysfunction Plantar Fasciitis Post Polio Syndrome Post-Tibia Tendonitis Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Rheumatoid Arthritis Shin Splints Short feet Wide feet Wound Care (ulcerations and infections)
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Feel free to contact Boston Pedorthic to inquire about your specific condition, symptoms, goals, or general agenda for your footwear.
To summarize, the overall function of an orthopedic custom golf shoe is to provide accommodation of the various dimensions of the foot, be they severely narrow, severely wide, or a complex combination of circumstances that produce challenges to a good fit and comfortable function from ready-made shoes. Custom golf shoes are useful in addressing structural deformities that cause pain or gait anomalies like leg length discrepancies and painful joint motion. Providing a structured, custom innersole provides the intimate full contact for healthy alignment of the foot throughout your swing and as you walk.
Boston Pedorthic is specifically trained and experienced to fit and detail custom shoes.
Custom golf shoes at Boston Pedorthic are detailed with precision for the individual requirements of the customer or medical prescription, combined with fine finishing and your choice of a wide variety of patterns and leathers.
It's easy to get started. Just call (617) 787-8779 to schedule your no-cost, no-obligation appointment for custom shoes, conveniently located on Commonwealth Avenue, just north of Cleveland Circle in Brighton, Massachusetts.
Footnotes
* Handmade Shoes for Men, László Vass & Magda Molnár
Otabo Custom Golf Shoes
Made for Se Ri Pak's induction into
the Golf Hall of Fame