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Hello @chrisspiz, Welcome to Connect. I don't have any experience with the technology but @domiha posted...
experiences of other members: -- "foot ... drop orthotic" - https://connect.mayoclinic.org ... search=foot%20drop%20orthotic -- &#34
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Jan 3 8:25am
Hello, projfan (@projfan) I am go glad you did NOT hesitate to suggest gait therapy! I've...
severe flat feet, genuinely relieved by orthotics ... (since the 1980's); then a drop-foot ... grotesque 8" wound in my left foot
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Nov 20, 2025
My husband starting having symptoms about six years ago and has slowly progressed. He has been...
waterskiing and snowskiing due to the foot ... drop. ... have also been helpful in moving his foot ... His AFOs were fitted, ordered by orthotics ... large to accommodate the insert of the orthotics
Discussion: Drop foot
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Jan 25, 2025
That brings back memories. I knew I had broken something in that foot a long time...
knew I had broken something in that foot ... the Medicare-won't-pay-for-it-ortho-sandal ... My god the foot wouldn't even been ... have a sole exactly the same as the ortho ... but also in the area I dropped my computer
Posted: Dec 21, 2024
I have a dropped left foot due to PN. The nerves in my left ankle stopped...
I have a dropped left foot due to PN ... Braces are lighter now, and so are orthotic
Discussion: Foot weakness
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: May 21, 2022
Hi Amanda. Yes, they are working as a team, but have no clue. I even saw...
bone bruise on the bottom and top of foot ... taking as much until my ankle and foot ... Just using eye drops over the counter ... taking ibuprofen for the swelling in my foot ... and ankle, per Ortho, until the swelling
Support Group: Visiting Mayo Clinic
Posted: Jul 21, 2021
I had insoles made by a podiatrist, sanity saver. They take a imprint of your sole....
As to foot drop orthotics here's ... Adjustable Drop Foot Brace Foot Up AFO ... Brace Unisex Fits for Right/Left Foot ... AFO Drop ... Foot Brace Orthosis for Hemiplegia
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Oct 22, 2024
@dbeshears1 - Debbie, your story from weakness to wheelchair in 10 days reminds us of how...
My numbness in 2 left toes to drop foot ... My ankle foot orthotics eliminate drop ... foot and help with balance.
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Jun 29, 2024
AFO - Ankle, foot orthoses. The type I have - walk-on-flex by Ottobock. Again, not for...
AFO - Ankle, foot orthoses. ... doc wrote out a prescription due to drop ... foot. ... went to a company that specializes in orthotics
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Nov 29, 2023
@ikcooley I’m sorry your experiencing this numbness. Getting good orthotics may help and massage to help...
Getting good orthotics may help and ... Orthotics would straighten your gait ... just pain in my leg and I was getting drop ... foot.
@horowitz71 - As I read your post, many of us can relate to your situation, but...
I wear orthotics 97 of% the time, help ... a great deal, was prescribed for drop ... foot but as an added benefit, they ... When I don't wear my orthotics, ... My orthotics have worked out well for
Discussion: "Rubbery" Legs?
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Apr 18, 2023
Oh Jeez--I feel for all you knee people on here. I am a 65 year old...
bike religiously--and I wired my left foot ... kinda waiting for the other shoe to drop ... I have been to 3 different ortho people
Support Group: Joint Replacements
Posted: Jan 24, 2019
@ray666 - I happen to have drop foot caused by sensory motor PN. I was in...
@ray666 - I happen to have drop foot ... early 2020 and my therapist felt that orthotics ... would help me with drop foot as they ... natural position, so the front of the foot ... It helped with my drop foot but as an
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Feb 28, 2023
mmata - My PN started much the same way. I now have polyneuropathy, both sensory and...
the motor became worse, I developed drop ... foot causing tripping followed then ... Due to drop foot, I was prescribed Ottobock ... There are various types of orthotics
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Jan 22, 2023
Chuckkc - I'm 72 yrs old, 2 yrs ago, I was in P. Therapy and it...
Therapy and it was suggested that I try orthotics ... They work well for me as I have drop ... foot, these allow a more normal heel
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Jun 27, 2022
my Cauda Equina problem was NOT diagnosed by the neurosurgeon and other doctors who i saw...
he wouldn't do surgery until my foot ... dropped and I pooed myself. ... The ortho surgeon did an xray in his
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Oct 14, 2024
I think @gba could be right, sounds like you are developing drop foot and, in my...
right, sounds like you are developing drop ... May I suggest, if you have drop foot ... toe situation, then you might have drop ... foot. ... orthotics.
I absolutely agree with gardening for health - and for natural grounding, as it turns out...
ago when metatarsalgia (ball of the foot ... The penny has now dropped that the sudden ... indoors wearing thick-soled synthetic orthotic ... ground much with those insulated-sole orthotic
Posted: Jun 15, 2024