font-family: \'Open Sans\', sans-serif;Ernie | BFS Pedorthics - Part 4

Blog Archives

Disguise. Don’t advertise.

Leg length buildups are mostly hard to disguise. The larger the difference the harder it is. Men don’t seem to mind as much as women. And children and youth have a worse predicament with school colleagues ready to pick on anything non conforming. We understand that.  Sometime the footwear  look hideous and awful. Some practitioner […]



Read More

Checkers Anyone?

It is one thing to have a disability of the extent where people will notice how you walk. An orthopaedic buildup is one such case. A height of more than 20 mm is nearly always noticeable at the very least, to the user. In this case, a young man with a 42mm shortness and desperate […]



Read More

Choice?- Red and White Laces or Black Laces?

Your Choice – Red and White Lace or Black? Here is an example of not knowing what to do. The photos are custom made footwear for a fantastic female patient . We copied a Converse look. Rubber edged. Toe cap has concealed stitching. This lady had talipes as a child – club foot.  Not only does she […]



Read More

Footy boots with a familiar logo

We get requests to hand make all types of footwear for all shapes of feet.   Custom Made footwear costs bear no relevance to retail costs of Asian factory footwear.  For us it’s all a labour of love and made exclusively for the individual foot and the individual client. People don’t get custom made footwear every […]



Read More

People with Disabilities – Creative and never boring

  The colors we choose say a lot about us as a person. The wonderful choice of colors here shows up this ladies personality perfectly. She is always happy and a delight to do work for with a loud, infectious laugh, it was our pleasure to craft the boots that help her walk more stable […]



Read More

Stabilising and improving alignment

Improving Alignments is a major part of what we do at BFSPedorthics. As demonstrated here this person has a very low muscle tone in some areas. An ankle foot orthoses or AFO is being used because this person cannot activate or move the ankle joint through normal range of motion (commonly called ‘dropfoot’). In the photo that’s […]



Read More

Custom made business shoes

Custom made business shoes recently made for long term client. These shoes are built to last a long time. Eight years in fact were his last pair and he is still wearing them A welt sewn shoe is the most durable method of construction. Quality French or Austrian calf for the uppers, full kowkip linings, […]



Read More