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Foot orthoses: how much customisation is necessary?

The relative merit of customised versus prefabricated foot orthoses continues to be the subject of passionate debate among foot health professionals. Although there is currently insufficient evidence to reach definitive conclusions, a growing body of research literature suggests that prefabricated f...

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Autor principal: Menz, Hylton B
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2714293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19589160
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1146-2-23
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description The relative merit of customised versus prefabricated foot orthoses continues to be the subject of passionate debate among foot health professionals. Although there is currently insufficient evidence to reach definitive conclusions, a growing body of research literature suggests that prefabricated foot orthoses may produce equivalent clinical outcomes to customised foot orthoses for some conditions. Consensus guidelines for the prescription of customised foot orthoses need to be developed so that the hypothesised benefits of these devices can be thoroughly evaluated.
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spelling pubmed-27142932009-07-23 Foot orthoses: how much customisation is necessary? Menz, Hylton B J Foot Ankle Res Commentary The relative merit of customised versus prefabricated foot orthoses continues to be the subject of passionate debate among foot health professionals. Although there is currently insufficient evidence to reach definitive conclusions, a growing body of research literature suggests that prefabricated foot orthoses may produce equivalent clinical outcomes to customised foot orthoses for some conditions. Consensus guidelines for the prescription of customised foot orthoses need to be developed so that the hypothesised benefits of these devices can be thoroughly evaluated. BioMed Central 2009-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2714293/ /pubmed/19589160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1146-2-23 Text en Copyright © 2009 Menz; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Foot orthoses: how much customisation is necessary?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2714293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19589160
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