pedorthics

Potential jobs include certified athletic therapist, physiotherapy, sports medicine physician, chiropractic, massage therapy, pedorthics, strength and conditioning specialist, kinesiologist and a number of others.

Though there are a variety of places in town where the limp and blistered can seek relief in footwear, pedorthics are practiced at Eneslow to the exclusion of all else.

International Symposium: CAD/CAM Systems in Pedorthics, Prosthetics & Orthotics, Nuremberg, Germany, May.

A Certified Orthotist (CO) is an orthotist who has passed the certification standards of the American Board of Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics and Pedorthics.

"This is not just about learning how to walk," Steve Fletcher, director of clinical resources at the American Board for Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics and Pedorthics, told CBSNews.com.

Pedorthics (orthopaedic footwear) includes products for foot comfort like arch support and a wide range of other services such as shoe raises and modifications, toe fillers, partial foot prosthesis and custom manufactured footwear.

"Medicare itself it has got much more difficult," Steve Fletcher, CPO, director of clinical resources at the American Board for Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics and Pedorthics, previously explained to CBSNews.com.

The field is known as pedorthics, which Nancy Hultquist, a spokeswoman for the Pedorthic Footwear Association, a trade group in Columbia, Md., defined as "the design, manufacture, fit or modification of shoes and foot orthotics to alleviate pain associated with disease, injury or overuse."

He has published many articles on pedorthics and footwear which have appeared in Current Pedorthics, M. Jahss: Foot & Ankle, Podiatry Management, Biomechanics, PM News, Pedorthic Newswire, Healthy Living from the Ground Up, etc.