Our El Paso Foot Doctors Use Advanced Technology to Craft Quality Custom Orthotics Right in Our Offices
Feet hurt? Don’t neglect them. When foot or ankle pain makes every step uncomfortable, turn to The Foot Institute for comprehensive podiatry care you can trust.
Our skilled team of board-certified El Paso podiatrists, led by Dr. Efren Buff De La Rosa, offers a broad range of effective treatments, including custom orthotics. These prescription insoles and inserts hold your foot in its ideal position, relieving pain and pressure and making your day more comfortable. Our state-of-the-art, in-office laboratory allows us to fabricate quality orthotics quickly, so there’s no reason to ignore your foot or ankle pain.
What to Know About Custom Orthotics for Your Feet
Custom orthotics are one of the most effective conservative treatments we offer. Podiatrist-prescribed orthotics are more than just shoe insoles or inserts; they’re functional medical devices. Like eyeglasses that help you see better, custom orthotics improve how your feet function.
Custom Orthotics Versus Store-Bought Shoe Inserts
Considering the wide availability of over-the-counter and even “customizable” insoles, patients often ask our podiatrists if custom orthotics are necessary. However, prefabricated, store-bought inserts and insoles differ significantly from our orthotics.
While over-the-counter insoles come in just a handful of varieties to accommodate the most common foot sizes, shapes, and structures, we craft custom orthotics to your feet’s exact specifications, ensuring a better, more comfortable fit. We also create our orthotics from stronger, more comfortable, and better-quality materials than retail inserts for increased durability and longevity.
Exploring the Benefits of Custom Orthotics
The main advantage custom orthotics have over premade insoles is their ability to provide support and cushioning precisely where you need it. When prescribed and fabricated by an experienced podiatrist, these medical devices can offer numerous benefits, such as:
- Relieving foot pressure, discomfort, and pain
- Managing the symptoms and progression of podiatric deformities
- Correcting abnormal walking patterns
- Reducing the risk of athletic injuries and enhancing performance
- Improving overall balance and stability
- Preventing and alleviating back, knee, and hip pain associated with poor foot alignment
- Reducing fatigue and improving comfort during prolonged standing or walking
- Supporting recovery from foot or ankle surgery
Custom orthotics are also noninvasive, suitable for patients of all ages, and often a more budget-friendly choice than other foot and ankle treatment options.
Getting Custom Orthotics From Our El Paso Foot and Ankle Experts
At The Foot Institute, our adept podiatrists and friendly staff strive to provide an exceptional experience for every patient. With multiple locations in El Paso and an in-office computerized CAD-CAM orthotics laboratory, we make it easier and more convenient than ever to get the quality medical devices you deserve in a fraction of the time.
Biomechanical Evaluation and Gait Analysis
Our skilled podiatric professionals use cutting-edge computer technology to assess and analyze your foot structure and movement patterns, allowing us to pinpoint—and correct—the most likely causes of your pain. The program also takes precise measurements of your feet to ensure the completed orthotics provide the perfect fit.
Custom Orthotics for Your Favorite Footwear
We offer a full range of orthotics to accommodate various styles of footwear. Ask our podiatrists about personalized orthotics for your athletic shoes, casual shoes and sandals, and dress shoes and sandals.
In-Office Orthotic Fabrication
After scanning your feet into the computer and making prescription corrections to the specifications, we transfer them to our computer-milling machine, which fabricates the orthotic shell. This process is much faster than traditionally crafted in-office orthotics or sending your prescription to an outside lab for fabrication.
Hand-Finishing
Once the machine milling is complete, we modify and finish the device by hand to match your prescription perfectly. The time and dedication committed to crafting your custom orthotics is one of many factors that makes them more effective than store-bought inserts.
We Use Custom Orthotics to Address Wide-Ranging Podiatric Problems
Another benefit to custom orthotics is their ability to address, manage, or resolve copious foot and ankle conditions, such as:
- Arthritis
- Bone spurs
- Bunions
- Capsulitis
- Chronic ankle instability
- Flat feet
- Hammer toes
- High arches
- Overpronation
- Plantar fasciitis
- Runners' knee
- Sesamoiditis
- Shin splints
- Stress fractures
- Supination
Looking for a more advanced treatment? Talk to our foot and ankle specialists about MLS Laser or Shockwave (EPAT/ESWT) therapy for podiatric pain or surgical correction for progressive deformities.