Personalized Foot Orthotics for Pain Relief & Alignment
Looking for custom orthotics in North Haven, CT? At Advanced Physical Medicine, Dr. Max Mitchell provides fully personalized foot support solutions—from custom inserts to custom Shoethotics® and Sandalthotics®—designed to improve alignment, reduce pain, and support your active lifestyle. Every orthotic is crafted from your unique foot scan, ensuring a truly custom fit that helps your entire body move and function better. Whether you're dealing with foot discomfort or pain in your knees, hips, or lower back, our custom approach helps you get lasting, whole-body relief.
Custom Orthotics
Your feet may seem far from your spine, but they play a crucial role in how your entire body functions. When the arches collapse—as they do in 99% of people—it can lead to excessive pronation, which places extra stress on the knees, hips, pelvis, and lower back. Over time, this imbalance disrupts the body’s natural biomechanics and contributes to chronic pain.
Many traditional treatments focus only on the area that hurts—prescriptions, injections, or surgery—rather than addressing the root cause. At our office, we take a whole-body approach. Through 3D foot scans, imaging, and functional assessment, we identify how foot imbalance affects your musculoskeletal system and develop a treatment plan that often begins with Foot Levelers custom orthotics.
By stabilizing the feet, the entire kinetic chain can function properly, helping reduce pain and prevent future issues. When your foundation is balanced, your body moves the way it’s meant to—efficiently, comfortably, and pain-free.
Foot-Spine Connection
fOUNDATION MATTERS
If you have more than one pair of shoes and take part in multiple activities, you should seriously consider getting a pair of orthotics for each activity. There are orthotics for sports, work, and leisure. There are even orthotics custom made for children.
Multiple Activities? Multiple Orthotics.
For more than 70 years, Foot Levelers has been the leader in custom orthotics that are clinically proven to reduce pain, improve alignment, and support whole-body wellness. Because your feet are the foundation of your posture, even small imbalances can create stress throughout the body—contributing to plantar fasciitis, overpronation, flat feet, knee pain, hip pain, low back pain, sciatica, and Achilles tendinitis.
What many people don’t realize is that your feet don’t need to hurt to cause problems elsewhere. Structural issues in the feet often create compensations up the kinetic chain, leading to pain in the legs, hips, and spine.
Foot Levelers helps correct these imbalances with custom-made orthotics, Shoethotics® and Sandalthotics® that properly support, stabilize, and position the feet for better movement and long-term comfort.
Using a precise 3D foot scan or impression, we can identify how your arches and foot mechanics affect the rest of your body. Your custom orthotics are then crafted from this scan for an exact, personalized fit.
Foot Levelers is the only orthotic brand that supports all three arches of the foot, helping restore balance, improve gait, and reduce future strain. With better foundation support, many patients experience reduced pain, improved posture, and more efficient movement.