A passionate athlete and active track and field athlete, Luigi trained almost daily. Until a cruciate ligament injury on his right side threw him off track. And that’s where we came in and Luigi pro-actively approached us. The subsequent examination showed him to have a relatively healthy, mobile foot, which, however, in motion during the phase of load bearing, showed a significant eversion of the calcaneus with a significant drop in the longitudinal arch of the foot – more so on the right than on the left. Therefore, the approach was to intervene via an active foot orthotic approach, thus supporting the plantar fascia muscles to counteract overpronation. In the muscle-link chain – so the theory goes, this should also improve knee tracking and unload the cruciate ligaments.
The medial rearfoot element was constructed to provide support at the sustentaculum tali while simultaneously approximating the tendon of the posterior tibialis muscle at its insertion and origin. This gave the muscle an activation impulse, with each step and as a subconscious training in the shoe.
Today Luigi is symptom-free. He can train regularly again and – very important – cut a good figure for us and others at shootings. Sometimes fate takes good paths.