Allard UK, Louth (2026)

18/02/2026

Before prescribing a Carbon Fibre AFO are you asking yourself:
🦵How will this intervention influence motor strategy long-term?
Allard Carbon Fiber AFOs:

🔹Change ankle power generation demands
🔹Change knee loading strategy
🔹Often offload plantarflexors
🔹Sometimes reduce active dorsiflexor drive
🔻Can lock in a compensatory pattern if misused

Examples:
🧠Post-stroke patient: are you supporting recovery or cementing a brace-dependency?
🧠CP or long-term neuro: are you optimizing efficiency or removing necessary challenge?
🧠MS / neurodegenerative: are you preserving capacity or trading it for short-term function?

If you never ask this question, you are not doing rehab you are doing compensation.

👉 Comment FOOT DROP below if you would like to join us at our gait seminars and get a deeper clinical reasoning around long-term AFO decision-making.

16/02/2026

We recently brought the Allard UK sales team together for our annual meeting to reflect on 2025 and align on what’s ahead for 2026...

It was a great chance to reconnect (in person for once), and set our focus for this year, with lots of training, education, and conferences
already in the diary for the year ahead.

We also loved having colleagues from Allard Sweden, with Peter Allard joining us via Teams.

We’re excited, aligned, and ready for what’s coming next. Lot’s for you to get involved in this year, keep your eye’s peeled for more updates.

12/02/2026

Days like this are exactly why we love getting out of the office and into clinics.

We recently spent the day at the Lothian Hand Therapy Day, joining 15 therapists from St John’s Hospital Livingston, the Royal
Infirmary of Edinburgh, and the Western General Hospital.

A huge thank you to Iona Hamilton, Andrew Baxter, and Julie Jones for inviting us along and for putting together such a
valuable day.

It was great to meet the team, share clinical discussion, and demonstrate our Upper Limb Splint range. (Julie was particularly a
fan of the ice breaker).

Most of all, it was fantastic to hear about the impact the Lothian teams are having with their patients. The level of care,
creativity, and commitment in the room was inspiring.

Thanks for such a warm welcome, we loved being part of it.

11/02/2026

A weekend well spent for the Allard UK team. We had a fantastic time at the FORTH Conference with Peacocks Medical Group,
a brilliant event dedicated to education and awareness around Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, a condition that still doesn’t get
the attention it deserves.

A huge thank you to the Peacocks team, and especially Helen McCormack, for inviting us and organising such a thoughtfully
put-together day with over 120 attendees in the room.

Foot drop is one of the most common presentations in CMT, so it was great to introduce clinicians to our Carbon Fibre AFO
range and more importantly, to talk about why they’re designed the way they are. These devices don’t just support movement,
they’re built to follow the body’s natural mechanics, helping people move more efficiently and live their lives with confidence.

A packed room, great conversations, and a shared focus on better outcomes. All round a really good day at !!

10/02/2026

Before prescribing a carbon fibre AFO, are you asking yourself:
🧠Is the aim assistance, control, facilitation of movement, or all three?

Allard Carbon Fibre AFOs can do very different jobs depending on model and stiffness:

👉 Assistance → energy return, toe clearance, push-off support (e.g. foot drop, plantarflexor weakness)
👉 Control → limit tibial progression, control knee moments, manage instability
👉 Facilitation → cueing better timing, encouraging symmetry, improving efficiency

If you don’t define the goal, you risk:
❌ Choosing the wrong stiffness
❌ Choosing the wrong strut geometry
❌ Over- or under-bracing the patient
❌ Making gait worse, but faster

Carbon AFOs are not neutral devices. They strongly bias gait mechanics.

👉 Comment and let us know your current CFAFO aims.

06/02/2026

For children with cerebral palsy, hypotonia, spasticity, ataxia, Down’s syndrome, or acquired brain injury, movement isn’t always the problem. Often, it’s postural control, stability, and body awareness that limit function first.

These are the children who:
– fatigue quickly when sitting or standing
– struggle to maintain alignment without constant support
– rely on compensations that affect fine motor skills and overall participation

Elements Body is designed to address that exact challenge. It’s a made-to-measure Lycra orthosis that provides continuous proprioceptive feedback through gentle pressure and resistance helping the child better sense their body, organise posture, and move with more control throughout the day.

What clinicians value most:

✔ Improved postural stability without restricting movement
✔ Enhanced proprioception to support functional performance
✔ Customisable reinforcements to guide specific movement patterns
✔ Designed for daytime wear alongside therapy and daily activity

When children can feel where their body is, movement becomes less effortful and therapy becomes more effective. 👉 Comment ELEMENTS if you’re supporting children where posture, stability, or proprioception are limiting function, and you’d like to explore whether Elements Body could support better daily outcomes.

04/02/2026

For many adults with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, the hardest part isn’t walking. It’s holding themselves together long enough to sit, stand, breathe, and function through the day. These are the same patients telling us they’re exhausted not from doing too much, but from constantly compensating.

Pain, breathlessness, and postural collapse often follow long before strength becomes the limiting factor.

HyMo was developed to support stability first. It’s a made-to-measure textile orthosis (body and/or trousers) that fits close to the body to provide consistent proprioceptive input and gentle joint stability, particularly through the hips and shoulders. The goal is to reduce the constant effort required just to stay aligned.

✔ Improved postural support during sitting and standing
✔ Increased joint stability without rigid components
✔ Gradual wear time up to 8–10 hours for daily life
✔ Breathable, skin-safe materials suitable for long-term use

For some patients, this kind of support can mean less fatigue, fewer compensations, and more capacity for life.

If EDS is a regular feature in your caseload and you’re exploring textile-based options that support function rather than limit it, comment HYMO.

30/01/2026

A quick catch-up, in case you missed a couple of additions to the range last year.

Every Allard product starts the same way, listening to clinicians and people living with mobility challenges, and designing solutions that don’t just function, but move with the body and fit real life.

Both the CROSS™ Hemi Shoulder and the carbon footplate came directly from questions and challenges you were facing in clinic.
Different presentations and goals but the same focus on alignment, movement, and quality of life.

If you’d like a closer look:
• Comment HEMI for the CROSS™ Hemi Shoulder
• Comment FOOTPLATE for the carbon footplate

28/01/2026

Last week, Tony (Clinical Specialist Orthotist) and Julie (Sales Rep) spent time with the brilliant Physiotherapy team at Seashell Trust - a national charity transforming the lives of children and young adults with the most complex learning disabilities and communication needs.

We don’t always get the opportunity to work so closely with charities like Seashell, and when we do, it’s a real privilege. Seashell supports young people across the UK facing significant physical, cognitive, and sensory challenges and the work their clinicians navigate daily are complexity at the highest level.

We delivered hands-on training on SWASH (Sitting, Walking and Standing Hip Orthosis) and carried out assessment and measurement for a young man who is likely to benefit from it. And to our surprise, the team told us they’d never come across SWASH® before despite it supporting children and young people for over 30 years.

What makes SWASH different is its controlled, variable abduction supporting hip alignment not just in standing and walking, but also in sitting, adapting to movement rather than restricting it.

And yes... just to address it, we do usually wear shoes to work.
A huge thank you to the Seashell team for such an open, engaged session and for the incredible work you do every single day.

👉 If you’d like to learn more about SWASH, access our online training, or arrange a demo, comment SWASH and we’ll point you in the right direction.

26/01/2026

📅 10 March 2026 is our next one-day gait seminar, and it’s one clinicians consistently tell us they feel the very next day in clinic.
This isn’t theory-heavy CPD. It’s practical, joint-by-joint gait analysis using real patients and real deviations.
What clinicians say:

“Really informative, learnt more about biomechanics and able to incorporate this into my work.”
“Great seminar on gait biomechanics & how to analyse the effects of orthotics on gait.”
“Loved the patient analysis section.”

What you can expect:
✔ Clinically usable biomechanics
✔ Practical reasoning for dynamic-response AFO selection
✔ Clear links between assessment and prescription

🕘 09:00–17:00
📍 Glasgow
🎟 Orthotists & Physiotherapists
Comment GAIT to register.

23/01/2026

Just a reminder we’re two weeks out from the FORTH Conference.

📍 Newcastle
🗓 Saturday 7 February 2026
🎯 Topic: Overall Management of Charcot–Marie–Tooth Disease

It’s a brilliant event we’ve attended before, with excellent speakers and really thoughtful discussion. If CMT features in your caseload, it’s well worth the day.

We’ll be there with the team and our product range, happy to talk through cases and answer any questions you have.

Comment below if you need the ticket link and we’ll send it over.

22/01/2026

At Allard UK, we’ve been manufacturing and distributing world-leading carbon fibre AFOs for over 25 years and we believe that depth of experience really matters in clinic.

Our AFOs aren’t designed to be one size fits all. They’re built around what you see every day: differences in stability, strength, gait pattern, comfort, speed, and patient expectation.

Everything we do is shaped by decades of research into biomechanics and anthropometry, combined with advanced composite materials all with one goal to provide Support for Better Life, through better gait and walking capacity.

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