Therapeutic Footwear
eBook - PDF

Therapeutic Footwear

A Comprehensive Guide

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Therapeutic Footwear

A Comprehensive Guide

About this book

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 produce a textbook that is accessible, clear and without doubt the most definitive account of the subject currently available. Broad in scope, the text ranges through patient assessment, suitability of styles, retail and bespoke footwear, orthoses, measuring and fitting, all from the relatively simple to the most complex of cases. There is no other available single resource that offers such complete support and guidance to practitioners who wish to prescribe, fit and assess the effectiveness of therapeutic footwear.•Unique: the only book available on therapeutic footwear.•Authoritative: authors combine many years teaching and clinical experience in the area.•Comprehensive: covers all aspects clearly and readably.•Contains many line and photographic illustrations throughout.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Therapeutic footwear: A comprehensive guide
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Biography
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1 It's not 'just a pair of shoes'
  9. Chapter 2 Patient concordance
  10. Chapter 3 The last
  11. Chapter 4 Footwear components and construction methods
  12. Chapter 5 Retail footwear
  13. Chapter 6 Shoes for special purposes
  14. Chapter 7 Footwear and orthoses
  15. Chapter 8 Prescription footwear
  16. Chapter 9 Footwear sole and heel units
  17. Chapter 10 Stock and modular footwear
  18. Chapter 11 Measurements for bespoke footwear
  19. Chapter 12 Fitting bespoke footwear
  20. Chapter 13 Treating patients with complex pathologies
  21. Chapter 14 Case studies
  22. Index