I hadn't thought of sandals for my daughters AFO. She's a toe walker... we're working up to wearing her braces 20 hrs a day. So I'm trying to find something to put over the braces to allow her to walk around in her braces without wearing her Billy brand tennis shoes. It's so hard as they are very wide at the ankle where her hinges/screws are. And she's 7, almost 8, yrs old and is so shy and worried kids will tease her. So I've made sure she has plenty of "bell bottom" type pants to cover them until she hopefully feels more comfortable at school in them.
Thank you for sharing. Hinged AFOs are some of the hardest to find shoes that fit as they take extra space compared to regular AFOs. I love the idea of using "bell bottom" type pants to cover the AFOs. I get contacted by so many families and their children also feel shy about wearing these orthotic devices, so I will share this trick with them.
I hadn't thought of sandals for my daughters AFO. She's a toe walker... we're working up to wearing her braces 20 hrs a day. So I'm trying to find something to put over the braces to allow her to walk around in her braces without wearing her Billy brand tennis shoes. It's so hard as they are very wide at the ankle where her hinges/screws are. And she's 7, almost 8, yrs old and is so shy and worried kids will tease her. So I've made sure she has plenty of "bell bottom" type pants to cover them until she hopefully feels more comfortable at school in them.
Thank you for sharing. Hinged AFOs are some of the hardest to find shoes that fit as they take extra space compared to regular AFOs. I love the idea of using "bell bottom" type pants to cover the AFOs. I get contacted by so many families and their children also feel shy about wearing these orthotic devices, so I will share this trick with them.