Valgus
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Time and again one is confronted with the fact that a non- ideal use of the joints works well a while, but when the ‘riper years’ approach these things make themselves felt. E.g. our knee- joint undergoes tremendous strain in an unnatural environment, as we don’t have varied surfaces to walk on, but almost everywhere artificially flattened floors. Small asymmetries which we tolerated easily ‘in the wild’ become a problem. Many patients are surprised if they are told that a slightly uneven sole can have a remarkable effect on their knee- pain. Initially we crafted these sole individually, which made them quite pricey. As this test is not always a success our patients were malcontent to have invested 70-80€ insucessfully.
After many cases we learned that a difference of 5mm (!) between the inner & outer rim is enough in 95% of the cases – at least to test it initially. Further fine- tuning is sometimes nice to get an optimal result, but to see if it’s works at all our ‘standard’ sole suffices – and is much cheaper. To simplify things further the soles are big enough to be adapted to the individual width.
04-Costs
This – small – e-commerce site is in line with our idea that good therapeutic tools should be accessible to everyone at a fair price. So we want to make a selection of the products that have proved useful in our daily work available to other therapists, to doctors and directly to their patients. We are not setting up a ‘health supermarket’. Rather we want to make it easier to find where to buy these tools which we believe can help people.
This endeavor has entailed – and we learned this the hard way – more work and effort than we could ever have imagined. We thought that through the internet it would be easy and the paperwork would be light. It was not so, but we have not made it all the same. We can share lower costs with you.
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Because the price is already the best available, we don’t have ‘professional’ prices. Nor do we carry a big stock, which makes it possible to share lower costs with all our customers. In some cases, we simply put you through to established providers we know & trust. In other cases, we have the items in stock and can send them directly. The Nexus price, for example, is half for production, and the rest is for keeping the stock, handling the orders and all the overheads for product development, this website etc.
In the end we can offer professional quality for – in our opinion – fair prices. Some decisions were not easy; e.g. an approval by the medical authorities would have cost some thousands of Euros. As we don’t expect thousands of sales it would have pushed up the price without much gain for the patients. In all these years we have been using the Nexus or the Valgus-sole have not heard of one case of medical problems in their use.
Pony- chair is not the cheapest, but in our opinion, it is definitely a good solution, and we can vouch for its long- lasting quality; this also applies to the other products which- we hope –will help you.
Due to the nature of webshops face-to-face counseling is not really possible; you can always email us and we try to answer.
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