Imagine a treatment that uses both biomechanical and neuromuscular training, personalized and monitored by a clinician. That’s APOS therapy.

Unlike medicine or injections, Apos shoes reduce knee osteoarthritis and chronic hip pain, improving daily function and quality of life. It’s an FDA-cleared device clinically proven to reduce pain and improve mobility without medications or injections.

Retrain your gait

The Apos therapy system is a foot-worn device that combines advanced biomechanics with neuromuscular retraining to improve knee pain and function. At the beginning of your Apos treatment your clinician will conduct a computerised gait assessment to identify your unique movement patterns, joint alignment and areas of pain. This data will be used to custom-adjust your Apos trainers. Once the trainers are ready, you’ll wear them at home for one hour per day while performing your daily activities.

During this time, the trainers will redistribute pressure away from painful joints and introduce controlled micro-instability to help your body to retrain its muscles and nervous system to move in a healthier manner. This will ultimately reduce the load on painful joints and allow them to heal.

Over time, your body will learn to move in a more healthy manner when wearing the Apos trainers, and these new healthy movements will be retained even when you’re not wearing the pods. This is how Apos can effectively change your walking patterns and eliminate knee pain without relying on medication or surgery.

A recent double-blind RCT comparing AposHealth with a sham device, showed that Apos was able to significantly decrease pain, improve knee function and quality of life. These improvements are long-lasting and can postpone or elude the need for knee replacement surgery in many patients.

Relieve pain

Unlike medicines and injections that merely turn off pain sensations, Apos therapy addresses the root cause of your symptoms. It retrains your muscles to improve your movement patterns, and in so doing, relieves pain at the source of the problem.

Developed in Israel 10 years ago, AposTherapy has been clinically proven to provide lasting pain relief for patients with chronic knee, hip and lower back pain. This is achieved through a foot-worn device with movable, rounded discs prescriptively positioned to align with your specific needs. These discs are able to change the shape of your shoe, shift the center of pressure when walking and optimise muscle activation.

Aside from being incredibly effective, the treatment is also convenient for your patient and can be done from home. They simply wear the shoes for about an hour per day as they go about their daily activities and many begin to experience significant pain relief within weeks.

HealthCare Partners has partnered with Apos Therapy to offer this innovative program to our members who suffer from chronic knee and back pain. Our physical therapists evaluate and screen for eligibility and recommend Apos Therapy as an alternative to surgery and injections.

Relieve pressure on painful joint compartments

Apos therapy is FDA-cleared for reducing pain and improving mobility in people with knee osteoarthritis. Its effectiveness in addressing the root cause of pain and improving function has been proven in multiple independent clinical trials.

Unlike painkillers that only mask symptoms, Apos addresses the root cause of your knee or back pain, by using biomechanics to retrain and change the way you walk. It’s an innovative approach that uses a personalized, foot-worn device and treatment plan. This results in significant pain relief and improved function, enabling you to reclaim your life back from arthritis and other chronic conditions.

To do this, the Apos footwear has two movable, rounded pods that are prescriptively positioned to meet your unique needs. These pods create microinstability, redistributing the forces that pass up through the legs during weight bearing, to shift your body’s weight away from painful compartments in your knee, hip or lower back. This retrains your brain to walk in this more comfortable and healthy manner, helping you to maintain your new healthy movement patterns even after you remove the Apos shoes and continue your day-to-day activities.

At the initial assessment, Apos Health Certified physiotherapist will conduct an in-depth clinical evaluation to understand the root cause of your pain and determine if you’re suitable for the Apos therapy program. They’ll then work with you to develop a personalised treatment program to achieve your desired outcomes.

Improve your mobility

Apos therapy is a drug-free treatment programme based on orthopaedic doctors’ expertise and clinical trials. It focuses on the body’s natural biomechanics using an individually-adjusted, foot-worn device to reduce pain and improve mobility. Developed by specialists, the device uses ‘Pods’ – a unique set of convex sole attachments positioned under the feet to realign the body, release pressure from painful joints and retrain muscles through controlled micro-instability.

Unlike many other treatments, Apos is worn for just an hour per day while going about daily activities, making it simple and convenient to integrate into everyday life. As well as providing immediate pain relief, the pods’ positioning achieves biomechanical redistribution and redirection of forces away from unhealthy joint compartments. This retrains how the body walks and creates healthier movement patterns that can be retained even when the device is not in use.

Extensive clinical studies have shown that Apos reduces pain and improves function in patients with OA of the knee, hip and lower back. It also delays the need for surgery and has helped thousands of people manage their pain and live better, without having to limit what they can do or rely on medication. If you are interested in learning more about Apos.