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Declaratory Ruling Regarding Commercial Foot Appliances

Discussion in 'USA' started by Craig Payne, Jan 25, 2015.

  1. Craig Payne

    Craig Payne Moderator

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  3. LeonW

    LeonW Active Member

    I had a patient the other day a girl of 8 years of age who was excessively pronating she had some arch and hell pain on and off while walking. Her mother asked me if she wore orthotics would it change the shape of her foot? Would it cause the pronation that she currently has to reduce permanently? I understand that an orthotic may reduce excessive pronation during wear, but will it cause the foot to grow in a way where it reduces in pronation permanently due to the orthotics or have no long lasting effect. What do you think?
     
  4. Ninja11

    Ninja11 Active Member

    ...."The Board finds the conduct and activities set forth below by a retail merchant fall outside of the exculpatory provision of General Statutes 20-65 & constitute the practice of podiatry under General Statutes 20-50 (hereinafter "nonexempted conduct and activites").
    1. Diagnosing, assessing and/or examining a person to determine the eitiology of any ailments of the foot and ankle, including ailements to anatomical structures of the foot".....

    A pity this does not apply in Australia. I would think that Athelete's Foot would skate very close to venturing into podiatry practice, given they use their computerised footbed scanner to identify and diagnose a customer, and use that to determine "the best shoe" for that customers feet (albeit the shoe of the week that as retail sales people they are told they have to promote the most and sell the most that week). I use to have fairly high regard for their product, and still do, but became disheartened by their sales ethos, when a manager of a shop had the audacity to tell one of my post op patients that they refused to sell the patient the shoe I recommened because "your podiatrist only knows about orthotics, I am a specialist of footwear". Needless to say following this incident, and couple more similar incidents, I stopped sending my clients to Athelete's Foot, as they seemed to be over stepping their scope of practice (pardon the pun).
     

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