Orthotics can be helpful in the acute stages of plantar fasciitis by offloading the foot and preventing arch collapse.

“Orthotics often can help in those initial stages of an acute injury because because you are offloading and let's just explain to people again I'm sorry I'm all over the place but the anatomy here is so complicated that I think it helps to talk about pathology to explain it the reason an orthotic can be acutely helpful is because it prevents the full collapse of the arch therefore it takes some of the stretch off the planter fascia”

“when you talk about what exactly an orthotic does the jury's still out on that but we know it has something to do with Force so when the foot starts to unlock right it's going to it's a load modifier an orthotic is a load modifier so it's going to modify the load that's occurring at the heel so in an acute situation that's great”