Category: Footwear Modifications

Custom footwear modifications is a specialty service performed by our Pedorthists and our Pedorthic Technicians. We are trained in orthopaedic modifications of footwear to improve function, accommodate deformities, improve foot and leg biomechanics and alignment; as well as simply making your footwear fit your unique foot shape. From internal to external lifts, custom stretching, wedging, widening a shoe to altering the pitch and angle of your footwear, Okaped does it all.

• Lifts: to accommodate leg length differences and angular deformities of the feet.
• Stretching: to improve the fit of a shoe over various regions.
• Rocker soles: to relieve pain in the ball of the foot, aggressively offloading certain areas of the foot or to improve walking by reducing heel impact or push off loads.
• Ballon patches: to increase the room in the shoe not accommodated by shoe stretching.
• Sole splits: to make the sole of the shoe wider so that it more closely matches the actual foot width
• Excavations: to reduce the pressure on sensitive areas within the shoe.
• Reinforcements: to strengthen an area and reduce premature wear.
• Flares and buttresses: to directionally strengthen the shoe and stop the foot from distorting the shoe on the sides.