Who Uses it?

An alternative healthcare therapy, it is typically chosen as an optional tool by chiropractors, oesteopaths, physiotherapists and podiatrists who wish to enhance their main area of practice.

Functional Orthotic Therapy can work well as an associated treatment option for chiropractors, oesteopaths, physiotherapists and podiatrists because it has the potential to directly and positively influence the treatments that their main area of expertise offers.

Yet because Functional Orthotic Therapy is very new and given the mixed reception to the use of custom orthoses in the past, the decision to invest time, money and reputations in it are not taken lightly.

Although there are many chiropractors, podiatrists, oestopaths and physiotherapists who already include it as an integral part of their services, there are many more who do not currently wish to incorporate it into their practice.

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What about the NHS?

At present, the idea of using Functional Orthotic Therapy to improve health sits way outside of conventional medical practice. Whilst some General Practitioners are happy to refer patients to chiropractors or physiotherapists, Functional Orthotic Therapy currently holds very little credance as an accepted treatment option.

This is a shame, especially considering the number of people who visit their GP for help, advice and treatment about one of many muscsuloskeletal complaints and disorders like back pain or oesteoarthritis, yet leave with a packet of painkillers, told to keep moving and to book another appointment in 3 weeks time if the pain has not gone away.

The lucky few manage a referral to a state registered physiotherapist, yet all too often whilst exercises may help in the short term, successfully eliminating or significantly reducing the problem in the long-term is rare.