Pedobarography Combined with Computerized Shoe Insole Design and Manufacture: Clinical Applications in Orthopedics and in Sports Medicine

Pedobarography can be used in clinical practice in many areas, as a diagnostic tool, in monitoring of the effect of therapy, both surgical and nonsurgical such as physical therapy and rehabilitation of injuries, painful conditions, degenerative and rheumatic diseases, habilitation of the children with developmental disorders. Pedobarography can also be used as a combination of diagnostics of gait disorders and computer-aided design (CAD) with computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), resulting in producing orthopedic insoles. There is a broad spectrum of possibilities using orthopedic insoles. A number of clinical findings in orthopedics and sports medicine (sports traumatology) are shown and interpreted. The use of orthopedic insoles in the most common diagnoses in orthopedics as there are Flat transverse arch and metatarsalgia, Flat feet and High-arched foot (pes cavus) are presented. The application of orthopedic insoles in different entities in sports medicine like there are Plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinitis/tendinosis, Flexor hallucis longus muscle dysfunction, Posterior tibial muscle dysfunction, Peroneal muscles dysfunction, Anterior impingement syndrome of the ankle, Sesamoiditis, Stress fractures, Sever disease, Patellar tendinitis/tendinosis (jumper’s knee), Osgood-Schlatter disease and Groin pain are described.