Course Description:

Re-Approval: This course will be a live program utilizing lecture and lab with plenty of demonstration and hands-on practice.
The QUADRASTEP SYSTEM® is based on a clinical algorithm identifying 24 unique foot-types. These 24 foot-types are subdivided into 6 groupings of 4, known as "quads." Each quad has its own very specific foot and gait characteristics. A patient's foot-type (quad-type) influences not only their gait, but the conditions that may afflict them throughout their lives.
This one-day program examines pathological gait conditions, resulting from the occurrence of rearfoot varus deformities (compensated and uncompensated), forefoot varus and forefoot valgus deformities, as well as their combined effects. The student will learn to perform visual static and dynamic gait analysis, interpreting key weight-bearing compensations, in order to differentially interpret a patient's foot type. Students are taught how to implement the QUADRASTEP SYSTEM® algorithmic process to classify an individual's foot into one of 6 major foot, or "Quad", types. Students will come to understand how the specific gait sequencing of each foot type may predispose an individual to a certain set of pathologies.
This updated program provides an in-depth review of the 6 main foot types (Quads) in greater detail than has ever been provided before, including a review of individual case studies. The new material and course format provides a comprehensive introduction to practitioners who are new to the QUADRASTEP SYSTEM® while still being suitable and providing new material for anyone who has attended our classes previously.
This course provides the attendee an over-view of normal and pathological foot biomechanics, an introduction to a simple, inexpensive method of video gait analysis and a common sense approach to foot orthotic selection and design. It includes reviewing the normal development of a child’s foot, as well as Developmental Flat Foot and torsional deformities in children.
The 6 major adult foot-types will be presented in detail with their typical clinical conditions and how each foot-type may correlate specific rehabilitation goals.
• Foot Biomechanics Review presented in a way that is simple and easy to understand
• Rearfoot Deformities: Compensated vs Uncompensated and what that really means
• Forefoot Deformities: Varus and Valgus
• Simple Video Gait analysis
• Clinical Conditions by Foot Type
• Orthotic Selection Process and Prescription
• A Review of Individual Case Studies
Lab sessions will include foot-typing fellow students using a simple 4 step Assessment process and actual fitting of Quad specific pre-fabricated functional foot orthoses. At the conclusion of this program, each participant will have a detailed comprehension of assessment of foot-type, without the need for complicated goniometric measurements. The student will leave this program skilled in a more functional approach to foot and gait assessment, allowing them to return to their clinic with the ability to offer their patients a more immediate and cost effective orthotic solution.