• Reduce and control pressure and motion in painful joints • Provide compensation for rigid joints • Reduce ground reactive forces • Help strengthen and stretch muscles and tendons • Improve posture, balance, alignment, gait • Decrease demand for muscle activity of feet • Increase muscle activity proximal to feet • Decrease shock on hip and knee joints
Rocker Soles Help Control Foot Motion • Rocker allows foot and leg • To move over fulcrums (axes) of shoe • Controls impact and motion of the foot
From heel strike through toe-off Location and angles of rocker fulcrums • Controls motion • Reduces pressure • To painful areas
