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A health worker checks the fit of a person's therapeutic footwear.
Mobility

Therapeutic footwear

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This module teaches how to provide therapeutic footwear following four service steps.

Module duration: 2 hours online, followed by supervised practice as needed

Before you start, check that you have completed the following modules:

Resources you will need

Access to some of the commonly used types of therapeutic footwear described in this module for practice:

  • Therapeutic closed shoe
  • Therapeutic open toe sandal
  • Therapeutic open heel shoe.

You will also need:

  • Large (foot sized) pieces of paper
  • A marker pen.

Click on the links below to download and print the:

Resources

Click on the links below to download and print the following:

Lessons

1. Introduction

3 Topics

  1. 1.1. Key words
  2. 1.2. Who uses therapeutic footwear?
  3. 1.3. Features and types of therapeutic footwear

2. Step one and two: Select and fit

4 Topics

  1. 2.1. Foot screen
  2. 2.2. Assess
  3. 2.3. Fit
  4. 2.4. Plan

3. Step three: Use

2 Topics

  1. 3.1. Wearing therapeutic footwear
  2. 3.2. Looking after therapeutic footwear

4. Step four: Follow up

4 Topics

  1. 4.1. What is follow up and when to do it
  2. 4.2. What to do during follow up
  3. 4.3. Maintenance and repairs
  4. 4.4. Discuss and agree on actions

5. Post-module quiz and acknowledgements

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