INESCOP event to examine shoes in relation to foot health

08/07/2015
INESCOP, the Spanish Footwear Technology Institute, is hosting an event to discuss foot health at its headquarters in Elda.

‘Innovation and Advanced Technologies at the Service of the Foot Health: prevention, diagnosis, design, footwear, orthotics and materials’, will take place on July 21 and 22.

Alongside the conference, there will be workshops on computer-aided footwear design and related tools.

It is part of a wider initiative, SoHealthy, a European research project on healthy feet. It brings together companies Morocco, Tunisia, Italy, the UK and Spain to research the diabetic foot, the obese foot and the aging foot - problems that can be prevented or treated with improved footwear and insoles. The significant growth in the volumes of each of these three groups creates a compelling market opportunity, say organisers.