Patient information

Patient product care information is essential for the proper use and durability of your prescribed items. The physical flyers included with your product provide comprehensive instructions on handling, cleaning, and maintaining it. Following these guidelines not only optimises the product’s performance but also supports your long-term health and well-being.

Wear + Care Instructions

Foot Orthoses & Insoles

The foot orthoses or insoles that are supplied to go into your footwear. They are designed to improve comfort, reduce pain and realign the foot into a more normal position. It is important that they are used in combination with suitable footwear, your Orthotist will have advised you of this.

improve comfort, reduce pain and realign the foot

How do I look after my orthoses?

Foot Orthoses & Insoles

Do not wash the orthoses, either wipe with a damp cloth or dust lightly with talcum powder.

Keep ALL orthoses away from direct heat as this may distort the shape of the material.
 

Keep away from pets. As with your slippers, your orthoses can be a very attractive plaything for your pet.

If the top lining wears off, contact the Appliance/Orthotic Department to have them re-covered.

Do not try to adapt the orthoses yourself.

Remove them from your shoes each evening as this allows them to dry out properly.

Allow them to dry at room temperature.

Wear shoes which accommodate the orthoses comfortably. Make sure that your toes don’t pinch.

Please don’t wear them in sandals or open shoes.

Do not lend your orthoses to someone else as most foot orthoses are made to suit your foot shape and position.

Kinetec®

Kinetec® have been supplying continuous passive motion devices and orthopaedic traction frames to the rehabilitation market worldwide since the 1970s. Kinetec® is world renowned for quality, innovation and service.

A continuous passive motion (CPM) machine is a motorised device that passively moves a joint through a pre-set range of motion.

Experimental investigations in the 1970s provided the scientific basis for CPM treatment using motor-driven exercise equipment. Positive clinical experience, with this exciting therapeutic modality being well received by surgeons, therapists and patients, accelerated its widespread acceptance.

Fifty years later, advances in technology and the extension of this form of post-surgical rehabilitation therapy to new indications and protocols demonstrate that CPM still plays an integral and significant role in orthopaedic recovery. For the patient, it is a valuable and well-tolerated method of rapidly restoring lost joint function, mobility and confidence.

Simply put, traction is the practice of pulling on a broken bone or dislocated body part in a slow, steady manner to realign it into proper position and keep it stable. This is typically done with ropes, weights, and pulleys.  Traction can also be used to prevent or control muscle spasms. 

Kinetec® has a wide variety of Knee supports & braces available on their website: Here.

Kinetec® has a wide variety of off-the-shelf diabetic footwear available on their website: Here.

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