Align Your Feet!
Step Forward Orthotics are the shape of a perfect foot. Your
feet will gradually adapt and conform to this correct shape, thus enabling them
to work more like nature intended. Step Forward Orthotics flex as you walk, much
like walking barefoot on sand, grass, dirt, mud and gravel. You can expect relief
from aches and pains caused by poor alignment.
Step Forward Orthotics are available from approved doctors,
from selected public shows, or direct from Step Forward offices.
The Step Forward Process
How Do I Get Fitted? How Do I Try Them?
1. Understand & agree with the logic of the Step Forward approach.
Listen to our explanation, study the web-site, ask questions. It is essential that
you have a good understanding of why Step Forward Orthotics are going to be able
to help you.
2. Know the price & understand why this represents excellent value.
Step Forward Orthotics are $350 per pair. Custom-made orthotics are typically anywhere
from $200 up to $800. Pre-formed orthotics cost around $50 and are recommended to
be replaced every 12 months. Step Forward Orthotics have a typical life of 15 years
(guaranteed for 10 years) which equates to about $25 per year. There is no GST on
Step Forward Orthotics in Australia.
Another way to realise the value of Step Forward
Orthotics is to calculate how many visits you could make to a doctor or therapist
before you have spent more than $350. Not many!
3. Have a free appraisal and fitting.
This process takes about 10 minutes and is completely free of charge and without
any obligation. If you still aren’t convinced, you can take your footprint with
you and do more research. This means that if you wish to buy your orthotics later,
you can do so over the phone, as your correct size is written on the footprint that
you take with you. We do not keep any information about you until such time as you
decide to make a purchase.
During the fitting we will take an impression
of your footprint, explain what that is likely to mean to your body, select a pair
to suit the bone structure of your feet, put them in your shoes and send you on
a small walk in them. By this time you will have a good understanding of what Step
Forward is all about. Remember, all this is cost-free and obligation-free. You pay
nothing unless you choose to keep the orthotics.
4. Purchase your pair of Step Forward Orthotics.
We accept cash and most credit cards, including Amex. If you phone the office to
have them sent to you, we will add a $15 fee for postage & handling. They will come
to your letterbox by Express Post or to your door by courier. The orthotics (a left
and a right) will be accompanied with full instructions and a tax invoice/receipt.
5. Allow your feet to adjust to the orthotics.
If you had been walking barefoot all day every day on sand, grass, mud, dirt and
gravel, then your foot muscles would be strong enough to carry your weight all day.
However, since you have been walking on the bones, your muscles are under-developed
and need to develop steadily over a few weeks. You only wear them about 15 minutes
the first time, then slowly increase the wearing each day. The average person takes
about 3 weeks until they can wear our orthotics all day. You will be given advice
about this at the time of purchase.
6. After-sales care is always available if needed.
The vast majority of people have no trouble adjusting comfortably to Step Forward
Orthotics. However, if you do experience any discomfort or unexpected changes do
not hesitate to ring our National Office for advice. The most common problem is
people who try to adjust too quickly! However, there could be other issues that
we can usually solve without any difficulty. Please do not persist with problems
without contacting our office. We cannot help you if you don’t let us know about
your problems.
7. Wear your Step Forward Orthotics in comfort for many years.
Step Forward Orthotics will fit into the vast majority of existing shoes, unless
they are already too tight. Use the Velcro dots to attach them securely to backless
sandals. They’ll become so comfortable you’ll want to wear them most of the time,
including in slippers around the house, in your boots in the garden, in your sports
shoes or in your office shoes or work boots. They should last around 15 years, by
which time sand and grit in the shoe may have abraded a hole through the material,
most likely under the heel. They are guaranteed for 10 years against breaking, cracking
or splitting.
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© 2005-08 Impexis Pty Ltd.
We are the exclusive importer of Step Forward for Australia, Eastern Europe,
India, Middle East, New Zealand, Scandinavia and many other countries.
The term 'doctor' in this web-site means therapist, chiropractor, general
practitioner, surgeon, or other qualified person. |
