A Systematic Review of the Explicit Knowledge Used and Evidence Base in the Process of Design and Fabrication of Orthopedic Footwear

The design and manufacturing of an effective orthopaedic footwear (OF) and or foot orthosis (FO) is a complex multidisciplinary problem involving biomedical and gait pattern aspects, technical material and geometric design elements as well as psychological and social contexts. This complexity contributes to the current trial-and-error and experience-based orthopedic footwear practice in which a major part of the expertise is implicit. This hampers knowledge transfer, reproducibility, and innovation.

This presentation will provide a systematic review of literature that has been performed to find evidence of explicit knowledge, quantitative guidelines, and design motivations of pedorthists , orthopaedic shoe technologists