Lyles / Tennessee / United States
Sole Supports, based in Lyles, Tenn., offers a range of podiatry services to patients. The organization provides various functional and accommodative custom-foot orthoses, and offers foot support for all kinds of feet and lifestyles. It uses a high-density polyethylene plastic for its shells for flexibililty, rigidity and shape memory, and the shells can be heat-adjusted locally by the provider. It also operates a lab that calibrates shell flexibility and offers custom designs for each patient based on their body weight, foot flexibility and activity level, and uses a device developed in-house for the purpose. Additionally, Sole Support is involved in funding new and independent research to test modern theories and results.