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Leg Length Differences
Compensating with Corrective Footwear
There are many ways in which we can end up with leg length differences.
Some of them are;
- Road Traffic Injuries
- Other Trauma Childhood
- Illnesses such as Polio
- Differential Growth
- Birth Problems
- Hip Replacements
Alterations
If you can buy shoes or boots off the shelf, then there are many adjustments
that can be done to help correct your leg length differences. A high quality
shoe repairer should be able to do many of these for you.
At Bill Bird Shoes, we are skilled at doing these discreetly and elegantly
without adding too much weight to your footwear.
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The simplest way is to add an extra lift to the heel height of one shoe. This can add up to 6mm or ¼ inch. |
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At the same time 6mm or ¼ inch can be removed from the heel of the other shoe. Together with the addition on the first shoe, this could make a correction of 12mm or ½ inch.
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An insert can also be added inside the rear of the shoe. This can also be up to 6mm or ¼ inch. If too much is added it can feel like the shoe is coming off of your foot.
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By doing all three of the above, 18mm or ¾ inch of compensation can be achieved without drawing very much attention to the correction at all. |
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In a boot, even more correction can be built inside, because the leg of the boot holds the foot even though it is raised up. This way, up to an inch of correction can sometimes be achieved without any change of appearance outside the boot.
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When extra sole material is added under the sole of the shoe, then the heel can be built up even more. Sometimes corrections of 50mm or 2 inches can be achieved this way.
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Made-to-Measure
If you have a bespoke shoe made especially for you, then any correction can be
done and we at Bill Bird Shoes are experts in dealing with any level of leg length
difference in sensitive ways, using the lightest and highest quality materials.
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25mm or 1” difference.
28mm wedge heel on the left. 15mm concealed cork on the inside plus a 38mm high wedge heel outside.
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75mm or 3" difference.
Concealed cork with stabiliser inside, hollow cork between the sole and the shoe.
Also the lateral flair prevents falling to the lateral side.
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150mm or 6” difference.
A customer's own design.
His trousers cover this side, just showing the toe.
He wears whatever shoe with a low heel he wants to on the other side.
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38mm or 1½” difference.
30mm heel on the left, 68mm heel on the right with a platform under the right front.
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50mm or 2” difference.
30mm heel on left.
35mm concealed cork inside with a 45mm external heel block and a thicker sole on the right.
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If you like what you see on this page or would like more
information, then please give us a call on 01386 700855
where one of our skilled staff will be only too pleased to help
you. Alternatively you might like to view our company
website at www.billbird.co.uk .
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