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This is a good example of someone who could use orthotics, you can see his feet are collapsed
on both sides, while this potentially can use some rehab, it's just a lot of work, and
probably not worth it. If we get to focus on getting his foot back to neutral, that's
kind of what his foot shape should be like, and you can relax again, and you can see as
his foot collapses his whole knee rolls in and gets back out to neutral when he puts
his foot in normal position, and that rotation here, comes all the way up to his hip, and
this is happening every time he is taking a step, So if this is happening hundred and
thousand times a day, it starts to twist and torque on the joints that really aren't meant
to do that. So a lot of times you will run in to some Achilles problems, or knee problems
or hip problems, even low back stuff. Even if pain is not an issue, it's going to be
an efficiency leak for him. So he's going to have to work harder to do the same thing,
to walk the same amount of distance, to run or to skate, something with that collapsed
foot position, he's just going to be losing energy. So if we can get him into an orthotic,
it's going to shore up some of that mobility and give him better mechanics down there,
save his knees and hips from too much motion and just make him more efficient.