For decades, the footwear industry has been focused on style, comfort, durability, and basic functionality. These days, consumers are looking for more.
Let's look at some specific examples of what the future of footwear might look like, based on what we're seeing in the product pipeline today.
Smart footwear – and smart textiles in general – go beyond the basic fabrics and materials and offer some kind of performance-enhancing aspect to the product.
For example, some new materials offer odor-neutralizing properties. Others light up when the wearer's body temperature reaches a certain point. Now, we're seeing footwear with embedded sensors that can track distance traveled, calories burned, and other biometric data.
The expanding footwear space will look out for:
Who's innovating for the sake of innovating and who's truly listening to their customers and designing products around them?
Even with these technologies being readily available, consumers will still need the expertise of medical professionals.
Digital Process + Technology + Podiatric Expertise = The Future of Orthotics
Footwear can often be the cause of foot pain, it can also be the best treatment. Simple as it may seem, wearing the wrong footwear can cause tremendous pain and suffering.
Apart from Footwear Technology, it is agreeable that choosing the right pair of shoes for your foot type can be hard!
This can be made even more complicated if you have to deal with using podiatrist orthotics or you have other medical conditions like diabetes.
So, which pair of shoes should be bought?
Fortunately, now there are many different brands and types of shoes made to accommodate different functions and fits, but even this can be tricky to the untrained eye.
That’s where we, Pioneer Podiatry can come in!
Our Podiatrists are well placed to prescribed the correct footwear that suits your need.
Before providing a footwear recommendation, our Podiatrists will:
make an assessment of your foot type
assess the needs of your sport or activity
The assessment will consider a person’s biomechanics, foot structure, injury history, and the activity that they will be used for.
Our Podiatrists will then give you a detailed recommendation of the shoes that you should be buying and where to get them at reasonable prices.
For a foot assessment and how footwear technology works at Pioneer Podiatry please book online now!
