{"id":24,"date":"2008-08-21T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orthoticshop.com\/blog\/keeping-pace-shoes-designed-for-children-who-wear-afo-braces\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T18:22:26","slug":"keeping-pace-shoes-designed-for-children-who-wear-afo-braces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web3.orthoticshop.com\/blog\/keeping-pace-shoes-designed-for-children-who-wear-afo-braces\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Pace Shoes &#8211; Designed for Children Who Wear AFO Braces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first fashionable and durable shoe that fits easily and quickly over a brace\/afo without being extremely oversized for children who require braces to support their legs and feet. &#8220;I was amazed that the shoes available would always be out of date and never took into account the latest fashions for these children,&#8221; said Watson, the founder of Keeping Pace. &#8220;We know how difficult it is to find special shoes that are contemporary, need little if any adjustment and are easily available and affordable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In developing the shoe, Watson brought together a team of other parents of special needs children, top orthotists, designers and a specialty footwear manufacturer Soletech, Inc., who worked for 18 months to create an athletic shoe, the first of many styles, that met the team&#8217;s vision.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping Pace shoe incorporates many features essential to this unique specialized market:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Wider, deeper heel box <\/span>hides additional depth; ensures a precision fit with custom orthoses and AFOs<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Adjustable depth inner soles<\/span> of 3 varying thicknesses allows for easier internal adjustments for discrepancies in leg lengths and accommodations for AFOs.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">High abrasion resistant rubber toe cap<\/span> and reinforced triple stitching ensures greater durability for the demands of children wearing AFOs and the stresses of various gait patterns wider, deeper toe box<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Distinctive sole <\/span>wider tread design increases direct surface contact and promotes greater medial\/lateral stability extra high abrasion resistant rubber<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Additional Features:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Ankle to toe lacing<\/span> provides wider opening for easier foot insertion.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Speed lacing <\/span>with locking eyelets promotes one handed pull lacing; locks laces in place for easier tying.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Geometrically graded last <\/span>ensures a precise fit with accurately sized shoe.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Unique midsole <\/span>is a compression molded EVA shell with visible cut line designed to facilitate the modification and build-up process.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Fray resistant lining <\/span>is longer lasting and withstands the wear of AFO use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orthoticshop.com\/brand\/keeping-pace-youth-toddler-orthopedic-shoes\/\" title=\"Keeping Pace Shoes\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pelsupply.com\/images\/products\/9382.gif\" alt=\"Keeping Pace Shoes\" width=\"250\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company with offices in Gloucester and Salem, Mass. distributes its Advance Children&#8217;s Footwear through orthotists, specialty footwear shoe stores and directly from its web site.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with its strategic partner Soletech, Keeping Pace plans to expand its line of Advance Children&#8217;s Footwear in the near future.  Its web site will also provide a vehicle where parents of children with disabilities can share and obtain information on parenting a disabled child.  Keeping Pace plans to create a foundation aimed at providing grants for research into many aspects of cerebral palsy and other children disabilities and to which it will donate a portion of its profits.<\/p>\n<p>Sizing Ranges from Toddler, Youth and Young Adults.<\/p>\n<p>Click here for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orthoticshop.com\/custom-orthodics\/youth-orthopedic-shoes-footwear\/\" title=\"Toddler, Youth Orthopedic Shoes\" target=\"_blank\">Toddler, Youth Orthopedic Shoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first fashionable and durable shoe that fits easily and quickly over a brace\/afo without being extremely oversized for children who require braces to support their legs and feet. &#8220;I was amazed that the shoes available would always be out of date and never took into account the latest fashions for these children,&#8221; said Watson,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,38,37,36,35],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-about-orthotics","tag-afo","tag-children-orthopedic","tag-orthopedic-shoe","tag-toddler","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web3.orthoticshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web3.orthoticshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web3.orthoticshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web3.orthoticshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web3.orthoticshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web3.orthoticshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web3.orthoticshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web3.orthoticshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web3.orthoticshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}