build up

build up

Bill Neu

2/6/2013

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and quick responses. Below is my
original question and most of the responses I received.

 

Bill Neu, CPO

 

 

 

I have been working with a 4 year old girl who needs a 1shoe build up on
her left side. The parents are asking if there is a source to purchase
either an ice skate or a roller blade with the 1build up. Does anyone know

of a company doing this?

 

 

 

**The primary source for adaptive ice skating equipment in the US is Gliding
Stars at GlidingStars.org**

 

 

**I used to run P and O at DuPont hospital in Wilmington De. While we were
there we did a lot of mods to skates because of the wilmington skating club.
My tech started his own cfab recently and has the ability to do any
modification necessary. Lifts are certainly easy for him. You can get him
at Joev@ concordorthofab. Com**

 

** With the boot style for both of these, you might be able to use an
internal lift instead**

 

**I'm not familiar with any company that does that but, A lot of high-end
rollerblades and or ice skates are assembled with machine screws not rivets
So it's a fairly small issue to remove the Rail and reinstall it with 1 inch
spacers.**

 

** I don't know her personally, but I just learned of an orthotist in
Houston who is a supplier of custom ice skates. Her website is
<URL Redacted> **

 

** Pop off skate from current shoe usually on with rivet. Get piece of poly
pro or delryn 1'' thick and rivet back on shoe**

 

** Hi Bill, I would cut blade and weld it with a piece of ss in between
bottom of shoe and blade. I have a great welder here in town that can do
this. Probably have maybe $45.00 in it or less.**

 

** Ice skates and roller blades shoes come up above the ankle you can
probably fit in a 1/2 to 3/4 shoe lift/heel wedge into the shoe without a
problem, being 1/4 short is not big deal while skating.**

 

** In My 31 years of practice I've run into this a few times. Both styles
being boots, I've fashioned 3/4 inch heel lifts with a taper to the Mets or
sulcus. I know this doesn't get u the inch ur after but she should be able
to compensate the 1/4 during those short periods of skating.**

 

** Not that I know of but I used do freestyle figure skating & those boots
if you but the expensive ones not the cheap ones are actually really well
made. You can do a regular shoe lift between the sole & the heel of the
boot. The actual blade holds on by screws similar to a markell boot & dennis
brown bar. If you put the build up between the blade & bottom of boot then
the screws will have to be sourced to accommodate the lift.

 

Rollerblades should be easier you can put shorter wheels on one the
un-effected side thus making the shorter limb the one with a lift. Shorter
wheels may have to be made by using the trautman to grind the wheels down.**

 

** Skates of all sorts generally have a boot attached to blade by rivets (
occasionally screws into the heel). They are easily separated by removing
the rivets. Considering her age hard creepe should be rigid enough for the
spacer. You will need screws to replace the original rivets. Specialty
screws flat with a broad shoulder are available but pan head screws are
frequently all you need.**

 

** Most quality skates are bolted/rivited to the boot. In theory you could
un bolt and add a 1 riser.**

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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