Sidas Custom Foot Orthoses
The First and Only for the Scottish Borders
As an advance Podiatry practice, we are always looking for innovative ways to help our patients progress on their journey to healthier, happier feet as quickly as possible. Custom foot orthoses are specialised insoles that have been designed specifically with you and your feet in mind.
Alongside our off-the-shelf range of devices and our 3D-printed custom devices from our lab partners, we are extremely proud to be the Scottish Border’s first and only practice to offer custom foot orthoses made in-house. Our friends at Sidas Medical have made this possible with their premium station which our practice took ownership of in winter 2019.
By creating fully-bespoke foot orthoses in-house, we have complete control over ever part of the process and can give our patients the opportunity to walk (and hopefully skip!) out of the clinic with their new devices on the very same day as their consultation.
Moulded to your feet, ready on the day.
The obvious advantage as already mentioned is the speed of delivery of our Sidas orthoses; whilst our lab partners remain vital to us for many of the devices we need to help our patients, the lead time is typically 2-3 weeks. When we can achieve the desired outcome with our Sidas devices, this lead time vanishes almost entirely; 95% of patients will leave with their new orthoses in-hand (or rather in-shoe) the very same day. And on the 5% of occasions where extra time is needed to perform more complex device modifications, we will have this done by the next day.
We also love that the whole process can be carried out right before your eyes and patients regularly report how satisfying this is. We begin by vacuum-moulding the exact shape of your feet with the Sidas silicon pillows. Meanwhile, our carefully selected base materials that will make up your device are gently vacuum-heated until pliable. The soft devices are then placed in between you and the mould of your feet to take shape. After cooling and firming, our Podiatrists will carry out any additional tweaks to the devices depending on what we are trying to achieve for your feet and voila! Foot orthoses made uniquely to your feet, ready to take home.
Getting you back on your feet.
Foot orthoses of all shapes and sizes represent an important tool in the rehab. tool box. The primary goal of orthotic therapy is to change where load is distributed through the tissues in your foot, ankle and lower limb. By reducing the load on an injured structure we are aiming to give it the opportunity to heal more effectively.
As always this only works well in the long term if we also gradually expose the body to stress/load again in a thoughtful manner that gives it something to respond and adapt to. The goal is not for your orthoses to be a life-long crutch. Rather they are a helping hand which, for many conditions, will not be needed forever.
The beauty of our Sidas orthoses is that, not only are they tailored to your own feet for maximal effect, they are supremely easy to modify; as your rehab. progresses it is simple for our team to modify your devices using heat moulding, grinding and various other tools in our workshop to make sure they are always best suited for whatever stage of recovery you are in. This is why they are our device of choice for many patients when we are considering orthoses as a short- to medium-term tool on your road to recovery.
Guide Prices
£135 - £165 depending on device and modifications required
