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

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Mobility

Therapeutic footwear

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:

Lessons

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1. Introduction
3 Topics

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Not completed: 1.1. Key words
Not completed: 1.2. Who uses therapeutic footwear?
Not completed: 1.3. Features and types of therapeutic footwear

2. Step one and two: Select and fit
4 Topics

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Not completed: 2.1. Foot screen
Not completed: 2.2. Assess
Not completed: 2.3. Fit
Not completed: 2.4. Plan

3. Step three: Use
2 Topics

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Not completed: 3.1. Wearing therapeutic footwear
Not completed: 3.2. Looking after therapeutic footwear

4. Step four: Follow up
4 Topics

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Not completed: 4.1. What is follow up and when to do it
Not completed: 4.2. What to do during follow up
Not completed: 4.3. Maintenance and repairs
Not completed: 4.4. Discuss and agree on actions

5. Post-module quiz and acknowledgements

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