Innovative Footwear Clinically Proven to Reduce Knee Pain and Improve Joint Function

Over 20 million people in the UK, have a Musculoskeletal (MSK) condition such as knee or back pain.

People are living longer with complex MSK conditions, increasing demand on MSK services.

MSK conditions are more common in areas of poverty and may affect some ethnic groups more than others, how patients access and experience care can also vary.

A standard treatment pathway for managing patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) includes physiotherapy, weight loss, pain relief and walking aids.

Once patients experience joint symptoms (pain, stiffness) that have an impact on their quality of life or standard care treatment is no longer working, they should be considered for surgery.

AposHealth® Solution Intervention

Apos® is targeted for patients who would normally be referred for surgery and works on biomechanical and neuromuscular levels.

This is an innovative, non-invasive shoe that is personalised to treat the cause of a patient’s pain, by retraining how they walk to support better movement.

This National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommended device is clinically proven to relieve pain and improve function in the knees and lower back.

The image below shows how Apos® can be used with patients before surgery.

Two customised pods are attached to a tailored shoe device, which patients are required to wear for an hour a day, the pods are individually designed to meet a patient needs.

Neuromuscular retraining

The pods’ convexity creates micro-instability that increases proprioception and retrains the muscular system.

Biomechanical redistribution

Customised pod positioning reduces the forces acting on the  patient’s painful knee, reducing pain and improving their gait.