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littleSTEPS® foot orthotics in a handy 5 drawer cart As we step into 2019, our thoughts are returning to cleaning out the old, organizing, and refreshing! Now is a great time to go through your orthotic stock and see what you are missing, what you need to order, and how you can make it easier on yourself to find things.

Have you ever wondered how you could keep your littleSTEPS® foot orthotics and gait plates organized in your treatment room so that they are handy for fitting your patients? Most treatment rooms are pretty full as it is, so it can be hard to keep any kind of inventory on hand in there as well. Louis J DeCaro, DPM shares some pictures of his treatment rooms and his

littleSTEPS® foot orthotics in a handy 5 drawer cartsystem of organizing his littleSTEPS®. He is able to fit 2 complete sets of littleSTEPS® foot orthotics and 2 complete sets of littleSTEPS® gait plates in a 5 drawer cart. His drawers are clearly labeled with the sizes that are in each drawer, making it quick and easy to choose the correct size to fit his patients.

Nolaro24, LLC is going to make it even easier for you! If you purchase a Double littleSTEPS® kit (2 pairs of each of the 11 sizes), we are now going to give you a 5 drawer cart for FREE. This gives you enough stock to keep a set on hand for fitting, and a set on hand for dispensing. You can contact us to get pricing – call Bert Parsloe at 203-725-6179, or call our ordering department at 877-792-4669 to get your treatment rooms organized TODAY!

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I’m excited to do my inaugural blog post about Foot typing and functional foot orthoses. For those people who don’t know me. I Graduated as an Australian Podiatrist in 1994 and I am also a US Certified Pedorthist. My specialty is biomechanics and functional foot orthoses. I have been working part-time for the QUADRASTEP SYSTEM® as a biomechanics instructor for the past couple of years and I have recently become their Education Coordinator.

I first heard about foot typing and the QUADRASTEP SYSTEM® when I was attending a Podiatry convention in Las Vegas about 4 years ago and I heard a lecture by Dr. Louis DeCaro, DPM and he kept referring to foot typing and how all the patients he sees get assigned a foot type. I was fascinated by this concept and liked the idea of having a standardized assessment model for patients. One of my pet peeves is the fact that if a patient goes to see a foot practitioner for foot orthoses and then sees someone else that patient can end up being prescribed and dispensed different types of orthotics for the same condition! This is very confusing for patients. It is a different story in the world of Optometry, for example. It doesn’t matter where you go and who you see, anywhere in the world, if you need eye glasses you are going to get the same glasses prescription no matter where you go.

Anyway time went on and I happened to see Dr DeCaro lecture at another convention and in this lecture he went into the Basics of how foot typing works and doing the assessment on the QUADRASTEP SYSTEM®. My first thought and initial reaction was that I wished I had of known about this when I was in Podiatry school it would have made my life much easier. I made a decision at that point that I really wanted to find out more about this and be able to teach it to others and I’m pleased to say that I have been able to do just that in recent years. Since I’ve been teaching the one day class on Functional Gait Analysis, which I now like to call Biomechanics Made Easy, it has been my intention to make the understanding of prescribing and dispensing functional foot orthoses much easier plus more fun and rewarding. I know the way I was taught biomechanics in Podiatry school was very confusing and there is a lot of misconceptions and conflicting information which just adds to the confusion. Roberta Nole, who invented the QUADRASTEP SYSTEM® and foot typing algorithym, is a modern day genius in my opinion.

How to Organize your littleSTEPS® Foot Orthotics and Gait Plates

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