Ability of Foot Care Professionals to Cast Feet Using the Nonweightbearing Plaster and the Gait-Referenced Foam Casting Techniques

BACKGROUND: We examined the ability of foot care professionals to consistently capture the forefoot-to-rearfoot angular relationship of a single-cast foot. METHODS: Eleven Canadian certified pedorthists each cast a single foot twice using the plaster of Paris and foam box techniques. Three independent raters subsequently measured the resultant casts. Statistical analysis of the data provided generalizability coefficient estimates (rho(2)) of …