Retired Engineer Jim Silvester Creates a Stability Sandal to Help OthersIn 1943, Jim’s grandparents purchased a house at the beach, and it has remained in the family ever since. Throughout his lifetime, he spent most of his vacations at the shore.Jim
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Foot Orthotics are an appliance that fit in you shoes to provide comfort, stability or correction to your feet. They can be purchased in many places such as a pharmacy, grocery stores, sporting good store, or online.If you cant find what you need, th
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As a Pedorthist of 30 years, I see many individuals that benefit from Pedors footwear, especially nursing home residents. The Pedors shoe has many great benefits for patients in this environment.1. The shoes are light weight with a velcro closure th
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In a study published March 24, 2020 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the National Institute on Aging, a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, found that higher daily step counts were associated with lower mortality ri
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Shoes that work for compression stockings, bandages, wraps, sleeves, pads, orthotics and bracing.For more than 20 years, Pedors Shoes has been known as the “go-to” shoe company for forefoot deformities such as bunions, corns, hammertoes, arthritis
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Tell Your Pedors Story #1 - Elaine M Elaine M spoke with John O'Hare via email. Published February 14th 2019
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Fall PreventionIf the risk of falling is a consideration for you or a loved one then the role of orthopedic shoes in an effective fall-prevention strategy is an important one.Each year 350,000 Americans fall and break a hip. Unfortunately roughly
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Most people have 2 different size feet! Most of the time its around a 1/2 size difference, if this is the case for you, simply order the shoe size to fit the bigger foot.However, some individuals have a full size difference in their feet naturally or
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Specialized footwear are required for diabetics primarily if you have neuropathy or compromised circulation. If you have been diagnosed with Neuropathy, you might experience loss of protective level sensation. That means you might not feel pressure o
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StartStanding.org has written an interesting article about how your shoes may be one of the culprits causing your back pain and advocate wearing shoes with wider toe-boxes, like Pedors, that allow your feet to splay out naturally when progressing thr
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Pedors Affiliate Program - Spread The Word And EarnHi there,We have teamed up with Affiliatly.com to offer a simple program that allows us to give back to people who love rave about Pedors Shoes!If you would like to start referring people to Pedors.c
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Pedors Slogan Competition We have decided to have some fun this summer and introduce some t-shirts, hats and coffee mugs featuring the Pedors logo with some fun, catchy taglines. First we are going to focus on our coffee mugs. We ha
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Thank You For Sharing Your Pedors Stories!Some of you will have been contacted by me recently to share your "Pedors Story". We get so many wonderful reviews of our products (which we really appreciate) that I wanted to see if I could get the persona
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Hi there!This week I am going to talk about inflammation, what it is, how it affects our bodies, what foods to avoid, and what foods to include in our diets. I will finish up with a great little recipe that's got some anti-inflammatory fighting ingre
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Hi everyone, Today I thought I would share with you my favorite bean and vegetable recipe which is sure to warm you back up after a brisk winter walk. I do most of the cooking in our house as John works full time, (plus some!), and our
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Hi Folks,My name is Helén (it's an Irish name pronounced Helaine) O'Hare. I am married to John O'Hare, Pedors CEO, and we live in the South of France with our (almost) four year old son, Benjamin. We love to get outside and so we do a lot of walking,
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If you think about it, walking is one of the most accessible forms of exercise available to us. Before we look at all the health benefits to be gained from walking, let's first look at the pros without even having to lace up our walking shoes. It's
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Is the Genext® Orthotic the #1 Golf Orthotic out there?That was the question I was left pondering after a recent golf outing, but first, let's back up a little.It was Jordan Spieth's sensational recovery in his final round at the 2017 British Open th
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Who wears compression socks?"Compression socks? Are they not just for Grandma?" - well, apparently not. While there is a good chance that your grandma wears compression hosiery or socks you will also find that all kinds of people in all types o
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What are hammertoes?A hammertoe is essentially a painful deformity that causes the middle of a toe to bend upwards, thus resulting in a "hammer".A hammertoe can occur when the muscles in your toe no longer work together and they get out of balance so
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What Are Orthopedic Shoes?When people think of orthopedic shoes they often associate them with older people who have foot or medical problems and need to wear shoes of this type. In reality though, orthopedic shoes are worn by people of all age
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What are good shoes for swollen feet?The inspiration for these mini-blogs comes from a great little website called AnswerThePublic.com. The concept is fairly simple in that your enter some keywords or a phrase and the website tells you what
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What are good shoes for Nursing Home Residents?A simple enough question with surprisingly, a simple enough answer.Residents of Nursing Homes have some fairly common requirements when it comes to footwear. Shoes need to be stable, be easy to get on
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Gigi is back and this time she is taking on Metatarsalgia, otherwise known as Ball of Foot Pain.You may have heard of the "met heads" before, well they are the Metatarsal Heads at the balls of your feet. Sometimes this area of the foot can get inflam
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Gigi is on a roll cranking out the Pedors FAQ videos and here is the second installment entitled, FAQ 2: What is Pedoprene and is it really heat moldable?You can view her video message directly on this blog. The video is also available on
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Pedors FAQ VideosWe are proud to announce that we have retained the services of video blogger extraordinaire, Gigi O'Hare, for our FAQ video series.Gigi is the youngest daughter of President and Co-Founder Stephen O'Hare. We suspect Gigi has th
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We just got word that the fine folks over at Xpandasox® had their socks independently tested to determine the levels of compression they provide to the wearer.The most significant finding was that each pair of socks offers three different compression
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When I launched the Pedors Rewards program earlier in the year, the good people over at SweetToothRewards (they are the people that administer and run the program) strongly advised taking the time to think up a catchy name.I like thinking up
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It’s not the most glamorous of jobs – being the President of an orthopedic footwear company - but it is certainly the most rewarding job I've ever had as the reviews we receive inspire me.There’s a company called Yotpo® whose role in the world of on-
Read moreWhat do I need to know about Diabetes and Footcare?The most important thing to remember is to check your feet regularly. People with diabetes are more at risk for serious foot complications that can get nasty in a hurry if left untreated.For a diabet
Read moreWhat Is Diabetes?Diabetes, also known as Diabetes Mellitus, is a serious chronic condition of metabolism resulting in high blood glucose. The high level of blood glucose is the result of a lack of either insulin secretion or insulin inaction or i
Read moreInsuranceOne of the most common inquiries we encounter at our Fantastically Functional Footwear company is whether Pedors are covered by insurance for a particular medical condition that affects a person’s feet and by extension the choices they mak
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Happy New YearI hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable Holiday Season.This Christmas and New Year was a little different for our family as we (me, my wife, son and two dogs) spent it in the mountains of the Pyrenees in Northern Spain. We had menta
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When my brother Stephen and I started Pedors in 1997 we had no idea that it would take off the way it did but looking back it is easy to see why. Patients and practitioners were crying out for lightweight, easy to fit, machine washable, orthotic
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About two and a half years ago I bought a new pair of "walking about" shoes. My walking about shoes are for everyday use. Going to the store, walking the dogs, walking to the library (which is a path less traveled these days). This particular
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If you conjure up an image of winter means to you there is a good chance it will have snow, trimmed trees and gift giving in there. For me and the rest of the people in our profession it usually features snow, ice and falls.My business partner
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A few moments ago we pressed the big button that makes Pedors available on Amazon.com. Only it wasn't really a big button but rather a frustrating process of uploading and re-uploading spreadsheets, reading pages upon pages of instructions and b
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Kilkee Bay, Co. Clare, Ireland.My wife is from the beautiful West Coast of Ireland, specifically County Clare. Last month we travelled along with our 16 month old boy, Ben, from my boyhood home town of Liverpool England to her home town of Kilmih
Read moreWalking. I usually walk everyday and I truly cherish it, though this was not always the case. Walking to me was usually reserved for those rare instances when I was not able to drive to a destination. However, a few years ago in an a
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Today I thought I’d write about a new app for pedors.com that has me very excited. Most websites these days have a central platform that runs the main show and on the sidelines there are many “apps” that add extra sparkle to how the web
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I am always looking at what shoes people are wearing. It comes with the territory I suppose but if you walk past me I'm more than likely going to peek and what is on your feet. Sometimes I spot someone wearing Pedors and the excitement is so mu
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We are delighted to announce that Pedors has officially launched a website in Australia. www.pedors.com.auThis has been made possible by our partnership with FitnWell Footwear who are the master distributors for the Pedors and Genext brands in
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The Pedors 2015 Catalog is now available for download and also in printed form. To download, simply click the image below. When the new page opens, right click and select "print" or if you prefer to you can "save as" and keep a copy on
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Flexible Spending Accounts or FSA’s as they are known, are medical savings accounts often set up by employers to help their employees budget for medical, dental, dependent care or child care expenses. Contributions to the account are deposited to
Read moreIt was a mixed week for obesity observers with scientists in Israel giving thumbs down to the low calorie food and soda industry and US regulators giving thumbs up for the approval of weight-loss medicine. A cynic might appreciate the irony of the
Read moreThe timing of the media reports of the alleged raids on the iCloud accounts of celebrities Jennifer Lawrence and Mary Winstead and the leaking of intimate photographs or more than 100 celebrities, could not have been worse for Apple.Apple’s new iP
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This week Coca-Cola purchased a share in energy drink maker Monster Beverage. The news caught my attention as it seemed like a strange fit for me. As kids, were were holding hands teaching the world to sing in perfect harmony buying cokes for
Read moreIt came as a bit of a relief. A few weeks ago having inadvertently discovered that I was borderline obese with a BMI of close to 30, the Wall Street Journal has set me straight. I know the Journal might not be everyone’s cup of tea but I particul
Read moreSitting at a desk all day at my age necessitates some sort of early morning exercise to get my metabolism going. If I don’t do it first thing, chances are it won’t get done. When the community pool is open during the summer, swimming is my prefer
Read moreIt seems for kids these days it’s “like” all about constant contact; being permanently in contact with the outside world. They are being force fed an information stream that shapes how they live their lives and dictates what they do and shapes th
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It’s something you grow up taking for granted – mobility. You’ll remember how as a kid every day you’d jump out of bed and go about your day without giving it a second thought. As I watched my nine year old skip down the hallway to her room to ge
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If you live in Cherokee County in the suburbs of Atlanta GA, yesterday was the first day back at school. The county takes the prize for sending their kids back to school for the fall semester before anyone else in the nation. Yep, it’s crazy I
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“But why do orthopedic shoes have to be so ugly? Why doesn't someone make an attractive orthopedic shoe? I’m sure if they did, well…. they’d clean-up!”Without realizing it the wife of one of the attendees at the Medtrade show had per
Read moreIt’s a word that we hear every time there’s a report on healthcare in America. If you’re like me, you would probably agree that you could do with losing a couple of pounds, but you wouldn't ever consider yourself obese. The word connote
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Orthosis, orthoses, or orthotic?Terminology can often add to the confusion of a subject. Words used in different settings can mean very different things. Words mispronounced can lead to completely new words which then take on a life of their own.
Read moreIt’s not a word you hear that often, “Pedorthics”, pronounced peh-dor-thiks but in the orthopedic shoe world “Pedorthists” pronounced peh-dor-thists are the “old shoe dogs” that have been trained to fit and modify footwear to ensure
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A few more weeks and we’re headed towards that time of year - late summer - what I call the Plantar Fasciitis season.Sometimes it starts early in late July but more often than not it really hits in mid to late August and then gets full blown in Sep
Read moreSomeone recently asked me how I got into the orthopedic shoe business. I replied, as I usually do that “it kind of happened by accident and alcohol may have played a minor role”. But this time my daughter Georgia, aka “Gigi” was close by and sh
Read moreWhat are diabetic shoes?People ask me all the time. What do you do for a living? “My company makes diabetic shoes” is what I normally tell them. My wife has heard the spiel a hundred times and winces every time someone asks. She knows what’s co
Read moreAs manufacturers of diabetic footwear, we often get people asking us how they can get their diabetic shoes covered by the Medicare benefit for shoes for people with diabetes.Medicare’s Therapeutic Shoes for Diabetics has been a great success since th
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