What is an Orthotic device?

So, an orthotic is quite simply some sort of device that we would give you to wear in your shoe. So, as simple as a cushioned insole or a fleece lined insole if you get cold feet, all the way through to something that's tailor made and very specific and might have been taken that might have been given to you by an orthotist who you might see and be referred to from your diabetes care practitioner or your podiatrist might refer you to an orthotist who can who can take maybe a cast of your foot or an impression of your foot to make you a bespoke device to go into your shoe to deal with maybe how you walk and the load going through your foot or to offload certain areas to to protect them or the podiatrist might get you to stand in into a foam box and take an impression and they might send that off themselves and get get an orthotic made or indeed the orthotics department might make you footwear if you have a deformity you know if you've had if you've had some sort of surgery or if you've had as a process of diabetes or as a process of another health condition affecting your feet that your that your feet aren't in a good shape to go into shoes that fly over the counter, the orthotist can provide bespoke footwear that again will accommodate your foot, be able to accommodate the insole, the orthotic device that we want you to wear and offload certain areas of your foot and therefore protect it from potential tissue damage and potential ulceration that might occur in the future.