Therapeutic footwear : a comprehensive guide /

THERAPEUTIC FOOTWEAR: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE gives authoritative and wide-ranging information to health professionals concerned with the prescribing and fitting of surgical and corrective footwear. Wendy Tyrrell and Gwenda Carter have combined their many years of teaching and clinical experience to p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tyrrell, Wendy
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors:	Carter, Gwenda
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone, 2009.
Subjects:	Orthopedic shoes. Orthopedic apparatus. Foot Diseases > rehabilitation Shoes Foot Diseases > physiopathology Orthopedic Equipment Chaussures orthopédiques. Appareils orthopédiques. Orthopedic apparatus Orthopedic shoes Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

It's not just "a pair of shoes"
Patient concordance
The last
Footwear components and construction methods
Retail footwear
Shoes for special purposes
Footwear and orthoses
Prescription footwear
Footwear sole and heel units
Stock and modular footwear
Measurements for bespoke footwear
Fitting bespoke footwear
Treating patients with complex pathologies
Case studies.