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High Arched Feet If it is most obvious why someone with flat feet would want arch support, it is probably not very obvious why someone with high arches would want or benefit from orthotics. Fact is that those patients who have high arches don’t usually see a need for orthotics until later in life, compared with the flat foot patient. Once the foot and arch begin to break down the high arched patient is always on the look out for additional foot and arch support, unfortunately they rarely find a device that will provide sufficient arch support to help with their condition.
Several medical reasons exist for the “high arched foot” some are understood and others are not. The medical name used to describe a patient with very high arches is Cavo Varus. These patients have high arches almost from birth and are prone to many different medical conditions that are believed to be caused by the high configuration of their arches. They often suffer from sever hammertoes, claw toes, hallux rigidus, tendonitis, retro-calcaneal bursitis, muscles spasms of the leg, knee pain, and low back pain, all of these conditions are observed in patients with very high arches.
For the most part severe problems associated with very high arched feet are caused by an underlying neurological problem. Not so common anymore are those who had polio as children, these patients are usually left with extremely high arches. A somewhat rare condition know as Charot Marie Tooth disease or CMT is a genetic condition that although most common in males throughout family lines, can also be found passed down through females, this creates a progressive worsening of the condition that becomes an increasing problem as the patient ages. Other neurological conditions that cause high arches that can produce significant medical concerns are Freidricks Ataxia, and Peroneal Muscular Dystrophy. Most high arched feet do not have an obvious underlying neurological etiology and are then referred to as idiopathic cavo-varus foot types.
Theta-Orthotics are probably the only orthotics device in the world that will generate significant benefit to those patients with very high arches. This is because that no other orthotic has more than 23 degrees of angular correction, and high arched patients break down from 40 to 20 decrees. This means that the high arch foot type is mostly through breaking down by the time any other othotic can even begin to provide support. Theta-Orthotics have correction levels from 10-40 degrees, when correction levels from 25 to 40 degrees are used to treat the high arched foot type, sufficient support is observed to generate significant relief from the symptoms that these patients experience.
Regardless of the cause of your high arched foot type, If you know that you need support but have never been able to find a device that provided much if any help, Theta-Orthotics are your answer.
Brent A Jarrett DPM
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