The Algarve Biomedical Center inaugurated last Friday, April 12th, in Faro, the insoles laboratory. The Insoles Laboratory is a new health and wellness service provided by the ABC Academic Center, available to the community.
The foot is the basis of all alignment and support of the human body. Throughout the development and growth of the musculoskeletal system, the feet experience changes to regulate and coordinate static and dynamic posture while walking. This often doesn’t happen physiologically, causing deformities and misalignment of its structures. These alterations can lead to pathological plantar pressures that affect balance and posture, and can induce pain, calluses, flits, and other pathologies or complications such as diabetic foot ulcers.To minimize the harmful effects of misalignment and foot pathologies, plantar orthoses (orthopedic insoles) aim to: align the foot, redistribute plantar pressures, reduce compressive, traction or shear forces, hyperkeratosis, ulceration, or others..With this new service, the goal is to provide more effective and personalized foot orthoses through a biomechanical assessment of the lower limbs, tailored to the specific needs of each client, including:
- Foot and toe deformities
- Pain
- Diabetic foot
- Pediatric foot
- Sports performance