Performance Boosters: Maximising Potential with Sports Orthotics
Performance Boosters: Maximising Potential with Sports Orthotics
Individuals who are active in sports aim to work towards maximising their potential and overall performance. Dexterity, endurance, and strength are core characteristics of an athlete. Achieving them can be critical in accomplishing athletic milestones. This is where sports orthotics can be beneficial, custom orthotics can be tailored to your specific needs and activities.
Aligning muscles, bones, and ligaments
Custom sports orthotics prove beneficial in many ways. They optimise power transfer, enhance balance, and can help prevent injuries. By aligning your feet, it can have an effect on aligning the lower limbs and help to enhance your performance as an athlete.
Reducing impact and absorbing shock
Specialised custom sports orthotics are capable of shock absorption whilst running, reducing the risk of ankle sprains and fractures.
All athletic disciplines involve relentless impact on the feet due to different activities such as running, pivoting, and jumping. All these activities can lead to a wide range of injuries. This is where the effective shock absorption of these products plays such a crucial role.
Gait analysis and orthotics assessments
Prior to providing custom orthotics, a podiatric specialist will carry out a gait analysis. They can then determine what type of orthotics would benefit your specific requirements. The gait analysis is an assessment of how you walk and run, typically this will be filmed and the footage slowed down in order for a more accurate clinical diagnosis.
