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Foot of the Week – Episode 2 – Custom AFO Solutions

In this week’s video blog, we demonstrate a drop foot AFO solution utilizing a custom footplate.

Video Transcript: 

Welcome to episode two of Foot of the Week.

This foot has a very bony prominence right at the fifth metatarsal head and at the first metatarsal head.  When I got this cast in I noticed this, so I called the physician, and we agreed that something more needed to be done. If we had done the traditional trim lines it wouldn’t have worked because we would have had a trim line ending back behind the metatarsal heads, but there wouldn’t be enough pressure relief for the two bony prominences. So, what we did is we did a sulcus trim line which means we bring the trim line just in front of the ball of the foot but behind the toes and we add these two reliefs by taking away plastic.  I’ll show you right here.  This is the final product, and you’ll see we took away plastic right at those two locations, replaced it with pour on, so now when the person steps down they have a nice, cushioned relief at the two sensitive areas of their foot.  And we’ll be able to get the lift we need from the ball of the foot.

Thanks for turning into episode 2 of Foot of the Week.  We’ll see you next week!

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