The rigid inserts or insoles such as the Morton’s Extension Carbon Fibre Insole Plate and the Full Width Carbon Fibre Insole Plate are generally indicated for conditions where flexion at the joints across the ball of the foot is painful such as hallux rigidus (osteoarthritis of the big toe joint), turf toe (a traumatic injury…
Read MoreThe rigid carbon fibre plates are often used for making the shoes stiffer or more rigid when you walk to restrict the motion of the joints in the big toe and ball of the foot. These shoe-stiffening inserts are used for things like osteoarthritis of the big toe joint, turf toe injury of the big…
Read More‘Hallux rigidus‘ is typically a painful stiff big toe joint that is caused by osteoarthritis in the joint. Walking is painful in that big toe joint (the ‘hallux’ joint) and becasue of the osteoarthritis in that joint it becomes stiffer and does not move as well (the ‘rigidus’). We need and use that big toe…
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