Orthopedic pads

A resilient and compressible one-piece generally oblong pad adapted to be placed in a shoe and extending from the heel to a position under the longitudinal and metatarsal arches of the foot, said pad comprising a substantially flat bottom surface adapted to contact the inner sole of the shoe, the rear end of said surface being convex arcuate and adapted to closely approach the inside rear of the shoe, the forward end of said surface being relatively straight, longitudinal sides of said flat surface being generally parallel to one another, and convex rounded corners of said flat surface connecting said forward end to said longitudinal sides;

• a contoured upper surface having a maximum thickness portion, a foward end sloping upwardly and rearwardly to said maximum thickness portion, said maximum thickness portion extending rearwardly across the major portion of the front a distance sufficient to support said metatarsal arch and rearwardly along one longitudinal side a distance and for a width sufficient to support said longitudinal arch, a substantially flat portion of less thickness than the maximum thickness portion extending over the heel portion of the shoe, and a sloping portion extending upwardly from the heel portion to said maximum thickness portion, and the portion of the pad adjacent said longitudinal sides sloping upwardly from each longitudinal side toward the other longitudinal side to the top surface, said maximum thickness portion including a rectangular forward section, and a triangular rearwardly extending section having its hypotenuse extending rearwardly from said other side toward said one side.