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Careful, rigorous selection of raw materials

24/04/2024

Each of our insoles aims to control, treat, alleviate or offset an injury or deficiency. As this is a health product, quality and safety are necessary conditions.

At BIOMECH CONSULTING we guarantee the quality and safety of each of our insoles because we continuously control, check and improve each phase in the production process, based on the standard ISO 9001.

The quality of our product largely depends on the raw materials we use. For this reason, we continuously research new materials that will allow us to develop more efficient, lighter and more comfortable products, and this is why we only collaborate with suppliers who comply with all the quality, hygiene and sustainability demands that give our INSOLES great added value, for the benefit of your patient.

We demand that our collaborators’ products are made in line with strict quality and safety standards, while they must also be supported by internationally recognised seals and compliant with legislation in force.

OEKO – TEX

STANDARD 100 by OEKO – TEX is the world-leading ecological label for textile products. Products that are produced under these standards are known for being products that have been assessed and certified by INTERNATIONALLY renowned institutes and, in addition, this certificate assures the consumer that the textile products have been analysed, controlling substances that are harmful to health, and producing them safely, responsibly and transparently.

INESCOP VEGAN

This certification by INESCOP guarantees that the main chemical nature of the material does not comprise fibres of animal origin (skin with fur, leather, silk, wool or down).

DERMATEST

A product certified by DERMATEST guarantees maximum efficacy and excellent skin tolerance, thus ensuring the safety of your patients.

SG PLUS CERTIFICATION

This is a guarantee of quality, hygiene and safety in the material, which does not cause allergies or contain harmful substances that are a risk to the health of the distributor, handler or patient.

At present, we have all the machinable materials on the market: natural polypropylene, carbon-fibre polypropylene, double- and triple-stiffness EVA, polyurethane, etc. Numerous finish options and corrections make our product the right solution for your patients while also offering you distinctive value over your direct competitors.

You can consult the variety and qualities of our materials in our DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO MATERIALS FOR ORTHOTICS.

If you have any questions about which materials are most suitable, you can always contact the expert podiatry team at Biomech Consulting by filling in our form https://biomechconsulting.com/contacto/ or writing to us at info@devbmconsultin.wpengine.com

Frame in natural polypropylene or carbon-fibre polypropylene?

At Biomech Consulting, the frames for personalised insoles can be manufactured in a plethora of materials in varying densities, levels of resistance and flexibility. Depending on the materials, corrections and finishes chosen, the result will be a specific insole unique to your patients, which will help to improve their pathology.

Of course, this decision is based on an initial diagnosis, following a biomechanical study and an analysis of the stride and gait, and a treatment is prescribed, detailing the geometry of the insoles and suitable materials.

At Biomech Consulting all the materials we offer are tested and analysed so they may provide optimal results in terms of pressure distribution, cushioning, impact absorption, and balancing of moments.

Two of the most commonly used materials in manufacturing personalised insoles are natural polypropylene and carbon-fibre polypropylene; production of insoles made in either material amounts to 76% of Biomech Consulting’s total production.

Things to consider when choosing the material

Both natural polypropylene and carbon-fibre polypropylene have specific characteristics that cause positive changes in your patients on a functional, biomechanical and resistance level. Understanding the specific characteristics of each will facilitate your diagnosis and prescription of effective treatments.

Natural polypropylene is recommended for pathologies where the aim is a significant biomechanical correction or compensation, as is the case with children’s pathologies where greater control and correction are necessary. This product is suitable for corrections of paediatric flat feet. Natural polypropylene has the following characteristics:

Light
Washable
Quite elastic
Provides stability
Good biomechanical correction
Resistant to breakage
High residual deformation
Impact resistant
High maximum constant working temperature of 100ºC

Carbon-fibre polypropylene is recommended in cases where significant biomechanical correction is required with extra elasticity. It is suitable for treatments in athletes who need the control provided by plastic, but with good elasticity so as not to generate tissue stress. Carbon-fibre polypropylene is mainly known for being:

Light
Elastic (more elastic than natural polypropylene)
Radiotransparent
Good stability
Good biomechanical correction
Impact resistant
Good tensile strength
Good balance of stiffness, and abrasion and chemical resistance

Completing your polypropylene insole with an On Steam lining is the best option for this summer

On Steam is the perfect material for any time of year, but especially summer. On Steam is a microfibre that feels like leather, is 100% breathable and can absorb up to eight times its weight in water.

With its heat-regulating effect, it offers maximum comfort and full drying. Sweat does not accumulate inside the footwear, but rather the fabric encourages it to evaporate such that the foot is always dry, preventing bad odours from being generated.

It is also antibacterial and antimicrobial in nature.

The role of biomechanics in dance

BIOMECHANICS is an extremely powerful tool when analysing the movements made by dancers in any discipline. It helps to prevent medical conditions and injuries as it allows the individual to improve the posture and perform exercises with less effort, despite this being a discipline where the feet withstand all the weight, force and pressure.

Dance is a combination of extreme sport and grace; it is physically demanding on the entire body and on the feet in particular. It requires years of training and the development of great motor skills. It involves movements that are highly demanding and push the joints to their limits. When movements are performed incorrectly, not only is the aesthetic affected, but there is also a risk of injury.

Studies involving professional ballet dancers show that there are high injury rates in classical ballet. They show that around 95% of professional dancers have at least one injury each year caused by classical ballet. The foot and the ankle are the areas most vulnerable to injury. ⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾

The foot is the part of the body that withstands its whole weight, it absorbs part of the impact caused in jumps, and even being on one’s tiptoes doubles the peak pressures on the foot. A dancer weighing 60 kg who lands on their tiptoes from a height of one metre generates an impact force of approximately 4950 N or 700 psi.

Caring for a dancer’s feet is essential as the feet support the body. And what’s more, each foot has 26 bones, 36 joints and over 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments, not to mention 7,000 nerve endings.

BIOMECHANICS allow us to understand each movement of a dancer to identify unsuitable patterns and injury risks.

Biomech Consulting | Biomechanics in dance

Podiatry offers two types of treatments that can help dancers. When they are not training or dancing.

On the one hand, corrective podiatry can help to halt or prevent many of the injuries caused by this discipline, which are shown in the graphic. For these cases, polypropylene BIOMECH insoles are recommended for making significant biomechanical corrections or offsets.

However, on the other hand, there is palliative podiatry, something that is not practised all too frequently, in extreme athletes such as the case in hand.

Helping the lower limbs to rest correctly and recover after hard training sessions is extremely important and highly advisable. In this case, we would recommend a soft EVA or polyurethane BIOMECH insole; both are famed for having an open pore, facilitating the distribution of plantar pressure and making the insole very comfortable.

At Biomech Consulting, we’d be delighted to provide you with any information you may need. Contact us by filling in our form https://biomechconsulting.com/contacto/ or by writing to us at info@devbmconsultin.wpengine.com

(1) Kadel N. Foot and Ankle Problems inDancers. Phys Med Rehabil Clin NA [Internet]. 2014;25(4):829–44.

(2) Nilsson C. The injury panorama in a Swedish professional ballet company. Knee Surg, Sports Traumatol, Arthrosc. 2001;57:242–6.

If no two feet are the same, two insoles shouldn’t be the same

24/04/2024

No two patients are the same. For this reason, anyone with a foot disorder or problem should undergo a biomechanical study to determine the idiosyncrasy of their gait and relate it with the rest of their body and personal characteristics, in order to detect possible pathologies and solutions provided by the use of custom functional insoles.

Only then is it possible to make up a personalised prescription and collect the data (3D scanning or mould) to develop a custom functional insole according to the characteristics of the patient. The main elements in the prescription are the kind of material to use and the biomechanical treatment with the required corrections.

Experts in 3D design and production of fully customisable, functional insoles

At Biomech Consulting, we are experts in the 3D design and production of fully customisable, functional insoles and, based on our track record and experience, we can guarantee and testify to the value and use of foot orthoses for enhancing a patient’s foot health and well-being.

Every foot orthosis that we make begins with a biomechanical study performed by a podiatrist and a mould is taken or a 3D scan performed of the patient’s foot. These data culminate in a prescription that is used in the 3D design with our own state-of-the-art CAD programme.

Although the price of functional foot orthoses produced with 3D technology is higher than standard insoles, it goes without saying that this is more than justified due to the quality of the treatment, the safety of all the anthropometric measurements of all of the insole’s parts or corrections, the accuracy when producing a second pair, the materials used and the excellent results obtained in terms of patient health. Firstly, we have to be aware that generic insoles are not a healthcare product and do not, therefore, treat a specific pathology; unlike custom insoles, which are prescribed by a podiatrist and designed to correct each patient’s condition.

Details are given below of the main benefits of our foot orthoses:

The key element differentiating the custom insoles of Biomech Consulting from standard insoles is that they are produced from a 3D model of both feet. Every patient is different and their two feet are not the same either. For the data collection, we use the latest 3D scanning technology, the Biomech Scan 100, developed by the Valencian Biomechanics Institute exclusively for Biomech Consulting.
When a foot clinic has a prescription and mould or scan corresponding to the feet of a patient, they can work with the help of Biomech Consulting. Worthwhile synergies can be developed since we boast a valuable team of experts in biomechanics, podology and podiatry, 3D design, numerical control machining and digital data collection. Our B2B system is a way of offering patients excellent results by means of cooperation between the foot clinic treating the patient that elaborates the prescription and mould or scan and the Biomech Consulting team. We develop the final product based on the needs of the patient prescribed by the podiatrist using machined materials finished to the highest quality. What’s more, a wide range of materials are available such as single-, double-, or triple-hardness EVA, polypropylene (natural and with carbon) and polyurethane.
At Biomech Consulting we also personalise the finishing materials as we have a wide range of colours and thicknesses.
Your feet support your body. And what’s more, each foot has 26 bones, 36 joints and over 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments, not to mention 7,000 nerve endings. Given their importance, it is necessary to make patients aware that using generic insoles without a medical prescription is not enough.
In the case of sportsmen and women, using custom insoles prevents injuries, improves sports performance, provides more stability, reduces muscle fatigue, gives more cushioning and stops toe deformities, calluses and corns from developing.
Biomech Consulting makes the mechanical additions and corrections required for any kind of orthosis according to the pathology of the patient.
It is possible to combine up to three hardnesses in the same machined orthosis. In other words, we are able to give one single insole different levels of hardness. Biomech Consulting guarantees the highest level of correction with a high Shore A EVA, but we also offer maximum comfort and plantar pressure distribution with another material, namely polyurethane.
Thanks to the internal know-how of our systems and staff, Biomech Consulting’s custom functional insoles provide sportsmen and women, elderly patients, children, diabetic patients or any other patients with the correct distribution of plantar pressure and the right balance of pronation-supination moments, all of which is necessary for eliminating the symptoms of any pathology.
It is worth highlighting that Biomech Consulting is also the pioneer in polyurethane machining. Our team is the first Spanish company to succeed in machining this material to obtain unique, fully customised insoles with unbeatable features. Polyurethane is particularly useful for the treatment of pathologies such as diabetic foot. However, as we have mentioned, it is not the only material we work with. Thanks to our experience and the high level of technology at our disposal, where our comprehensive, advanced design system assisted by CAD-CAM software and our working technology based on a philosophy of ongoing improvements come into play, we have the control and the means to work with the material that adapts best to each particular case.

For all these reasons, we can conclude that we have all the materials, professionals, premises and services required to guarantee the best possible final outcome. It is a unique product, capable of meeting the needs of any medical case, which is very important if we take into consideration that there as many kinds or orthoses as there are patients.

And to wind up, it is worth mentioning that the most advisable thing to do is to choose insoles produced exclusively for each patient because we are convinced that they can improve their quality of life in the vast majority of cases.

We hope you have found this post of interest. At Biomech Consulting, we’d be delighted to provide you with any information you may need. Please contact us via our website biomechconsulting.com or write to us at info@devbmconsultin.wpengine.com.

Biomech Consulting launches its new B2B platform for the digital management of prescriptions and orders

True to our vision of becoming an online laboratory serving all podiatrists who consider innovation and technology to be a key factor in the development of podiatry, Biomech Consulting is launching its new B2B platform for the digital management of prescriptions and orders.

Our B2B is an intranet that our customers can access with a password, and where all the prescriptions for plantar orthoses are managed. Choosing materials, thickness, additions, etc.

For the last five years we have been receiving suggestions, queries and ideas from our customers and, thanks to actively listening, our new B2B has come to fruition.

It is a digital platform that could not have arrived at a better time, coinciding with the upturn and acceptance of digital healthcare systems, which are here to shorten the distances between the supplier, podiatrist and patient and bring efficacy and efficiency to treatments with plantar orthoses.

Our aims when creating it were:

Put data and their analysis at the heart of the management of every clinic.
Streamline tasks and offer a useful and intuitive control panel.
Create a more accurate and therefore more effective prescription that enables us to increase our success rate in the orthopaedic treatment of the feet.
Increase the quality of our services with regard to production, logistics, customised healthcare treatment and matters of foot biomechanics.

The main developments include the following:

IMPROVEMENTS IN MANAGING ORDERS

New simple and intuitive control panel to keep track of all ongoing treatments. The main functions can be accessed from this panel.

The tools tell us the stage our treatments are in: status, delivery date, opening prescription, etc.

Complete tracking of ongoing treatments through a calendar that informs us when our products will be delivered.

KPI CENTRE (key performance indicator). Data converted into information. We provide a statistics centre with which you can find out what kind of orthoses you order most, the number of orthoses, on-time deliveries, etc.

IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PRESCRIPTION OF TREATMENTS:

A new interface facilitates browsing around the whole prescription.
Reorganisation of the form with tabs to streamline the prescription.
Incorporation of new additions, treatments and materials.
New personalisation tab for printing logos on heel supports or linings.
Complementary information in additions to answer the main queries.
Technical advice to prevent conflicting or inadvisable combinations of treatments based on the literature and scientific evidence.
Summary view of the whole prescription.

IMPROVEMENTS IN PERSONALISED SERVICE

Direct link via B2B to the whole Biomech Consulting team.

Live chat to speak to the technical team.

Section with exclusive documents for clients where you can download bibliography, training and tutorials.

The B2B calendar notifies you automatically about events or any important information.

The estimated date for the launch of this new B2B is 21st December.

This launch completes our ambitious project to create our own digital workflow based on the combined experience of Biomech Consulting and all our customers.

The scanner developed with IBV for digital data collection.

Our own 3D design programme that is 100% specialised in developing custom insoles. With recognition

Our state-of-the-art CAM programme based on numerical control enables a level of accuracy that is unrivalled on the market.

Digital tools, far from distancing us, connect us and make it possible to focus on what is really important, namely offering more expert, personalised and closer care to our customers (in our case) and your patients.