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An exclusive line of high-performance athletic orthoses

From our extensive experience with hundreds of amateur and professional athletes, our laboratory set out to make an exclusive line of highly perfected athletic orthoses whose active principles are individualized and adapted to each sport.

Following the treating physician’s examination and recommendations, we analyze the irritants and biomechanical constraints so that we can blend the correctives with these requirements and the athlete’s threshold of physical tolerance.

Since these factors can vary as considerably as the diversity of today’s sports activities, we have adopted various manufacturing techniques which have been perfected over the years. These alternative methods are used for all fabrication details: insert cuts, the thickness of the shell, the depth of the heel cup as well as the use of postings whose capacity, thickness and density vary as much as the angles used in the transverse layer, the grade of the frontal layer and the height of the sagittal layer.


Sharing the effort in action

In this way, it is possible for us to directly modify many functions or key attributes such as movement phases, flexion-extension, energy recovery, stimulation of stretch receptors, as well as the operation of specific muscles or tendons to optimize the athlete’s performance.

Depending on the sports disciplines involved, the postings also take on the role of stimulating, correcting and compensating. They absorb shock waves which, in some sports, are particularly violent.

Consistent with the entire line of Bi-Op products, the Polysport orthosis retains its uniqueness because of its significant superiority over all other similar products on the market in resisting impact.

We offer a huge variety of top cover materials whose performance is based on grip, flexibility or perspiration control.

Whether you aspire to climb to new heights, conquer difficult slopes or surpass your own limits, Bi-Op’s orthoses will propel you to excellence.

The general appearance of the orthosis may vary with the patient’s body structure, the additions you may require and the use of top covers, if applicable.

Sports
activities
Polynyolene
type
Shock
Absorption
Forefoot /
rearfoot
Post
Heel cup
Extension
Suggested
top cover
Aerobics /Step
Gymnastics
Bi-Flex* 3 mm pink
Maximum
Intrinsic FF
Int. or ext. RF
Very high
Normal
To phalanges
Steinco, Spenco
Marathon / Sprint
High Jump
Bi-Flex 3 mm transparent
High
Half ext. FF
Int. or ext. RF
High
To phalanges
(with toe crest pad)
Stein, Plastazote, Poron, Mutilform
Baseball / Basketball
Handball / Volley-Ball
3.5 mm
transparent
Maximum
Int. or ext. FF
Int. or ext. RF
Moderate to high
To phalanges
(thinned under the toes)
Deer leather,
Multiform 3 mm
Football
4 mm
transparent
High
Int. or ext. FF / RF
Moderate
To sulcus or 3/4
Lunafoam & vinyl
Soccer
3 mm
transparent
Maximum
Light ext. FF only
Low
To phalanges
Multiform 2 mm
& vinyl
Badminton / Tennis
Racquetball / Squash
Bi-Flex 3 mm
transparent
Maximum
Int. or ext. FF or RF
Longitudinal arch reinf., M4 - M5 extension, kinetic
High
To phalanges
(with lateral flange)
Steinco, Spenco
Hockey
Ice Skating
Rollerblades
3 mm
transparent
with heel
aperture

Light

Ext., half FF / RF
Compensation for navicular height
Low
To phalanges
or to sulcus
Deer leather, pigskin
Snowboard
Skiing
3 mm
transparent
Maximum
Ext. RF only
(+6 mm, women)

Normal
Low

To phalanges
Deer leather,
Multiform 3 mm
Golf
3 mm pink or transparent
High
Int. FF / RF

Normal

To sulcus
Deer leather, Multiform
Cycling
3 mm pink
Light
Ext., FF only (sulcus)
Low
To phalanges
Stein
Curling
3 mm pink
Moderate
RF only, int. or ext.
Normal
To shell
Leather
* Bi-Flex indicates a polynyolene that has been trimmed in specific areas to increase flexibility.
 
Bi-Op Laboratories inc.
1 800 667-BIOP (2467)
30, chemin du Golf West
Saint-Charles-Borromée (Quebec)
 (450) 752-2467
 (450) 755-4969
 info@bi-op.com
 
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