The Insightful Orthotics Blog

Blaze AFO refurbishment

In this week’s episode, we show an example of a Blaze AFO refurbishment. We can clean it up, add new pads, straps and top cover. Looks almost like new. Video Transcript:Hi Ian from Insightful Products, we help people walk. We’ve got a pair of Blaze MI braces that were sent to us today. The patient has been wearing them for many years and really can’t live without them. So, we’re gonna do a quick turnaround for them and send them right back. They need to be refurbished and we can do that for the Blaze MI design as well as the other designs we do here. This design here has the navicular window and the practitioner ended up padding in order to distribute the pressure to prevent that banding. Since then, we’ve made the adjustment and we put in a cut, a relief cut to create some yield within the

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Post Tib Brace Evolution

In this “Foot of the Week” episode, we talk about the evolution of the medial malleolar window in our custom brace design for post tib or posterior tibial tendonitis (PTTD or PTD). The Blaze MI brace includes a relief for the medial malleolus called a window, and since its origination, the shapes have changed. Now the brace even includes a relief or window for the navicular or any other prominent bone of the foot. This provides the required support while also providing the needed space and “give” when pressures and pain are high. Video Transcript:Welcome back to Foot of the Week. Today we’re going to talk about the medial malleolar window and the evolution of the window and where it stands at this date. As you can see this is one of our first designs. We made the malleolar window to provide the support and provide the relief at the

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New Custom AFO for PTD Testimonial, Dr. Marc Feder, DPM

Dr. Marc Feder, DPM, talks about the new Blaze MI AFO for post-tib (Posterior Tibial Tendonitis or PTD). The Blaze MI ankle brace is a custom ankle foot orthosis that helps people with medial ankle instability. It is an articulated design that works well for those with early-stage PTTD.

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Custom AFO testimonial – Dr. Rosen, DPM

Dr. Rosen, DPM endorses Insightful Product’s Blaze MI brace for PTD (post tib) and the custom Step-Smart brace for drop foot. Both AFOs have helped his podiatry practice and he is very satisfied with Insightful’s customer service.

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Foot of the Week – Episode 6 – AFO Solutions

In this week’s video blog, we show you our preferred method of “ankle brace casting” for a custom AFO. Although, we will take any type of cast, we prefer the STS sock, ranging from STS slipper casts, 3/4 length STS casts and full length STS sock casts.

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