What Are Custom Orthotics?
Custom orthotics are individually designed shoe inserts crafted from a precise 3D scan of your feet. Unlike the generic insoles you find at a drugstore, custom orthotics are built to address your specific biomechanical patterns — the unique way your feet distribute weight, absorb shock, and interact with the ground through every phase of your gait cycle.
At Okanagan Chiropractic Center, we've partnered with FootLevelers — the world's leading provider of individually designed custom orthotics — to offer our patients a level of foot support that simply isn't available off the shelf. FootLevelers has been handcrafting custom orthotics for nearly seven decades, and their patented 3-Arch Advantage® is what sets them apart: every pair supports all three arches of the foot, not just one.
Your feet contain three functional arches that together form the plantar vault: the medial (inner) arch, the lateral (outer) arch, and the anterior transverse (metatarsal) arch across the balls of the feet. Most over-the-counter insoles support only the inner arch, leaving the other two unsupported. Over time, this incomplete support can actually cause your arches to flatten further — making the original problem worse.
FootLevelers orthotics correct this by providing comprehensive, individually calibrated support for all three arches, stabilizing the pelvis, and restoring proper function to the entire lower extremity kinetic chain. The result is better alignment from the ground up — and often a meaningful reduction in pain that seemed unrelated to your feet.
