SOME boots were produced walking. Others need a little twist. Just talk to podiatrist Dan Everson.
It's almost 3 decades since Dr Everson launched his first clinic.
" Not many really knew what a podiatrist was. At that time if you explained to someone at a beer garden that you dealt with feet, they would excuse themselves to obtain a drink unlike the present day 'Really? Well maybe you can really help me. See I have this situation.,'," Dr Everson said happily.
"I had this plan in order to get established early.
"I wished to achieve a lot more than having a practice or two. I wasn't dedicated to that. I wanted to achieve a world first. This concerned making a difference.".
A few years later Dr Everson made a reservation for an appointment with a co-worker who made podiatry equipment using computer supported design. Within months he had the first Australian company to produce functional orthotics.
"It's kinda neat, that you can have a part in the way someone walks, mitigate pressures and strains of some areas and make an individual function more efficiently," he mentioned.
Dr Everson built his next brainchild, Kinetic Orthotics, and in accomplishing this, originated his own world first strategy.
His therapy uses highly developed computer integrated technology and a combo of foot morphology and kinetic clinical data to custom design and make orthotics for personal people.
These services were provided free of charge to Nambour hospital for 2 to 3 years, saving hospital organisation over $800,000 in admissions.
Dan Everson Podiatry now has six clinics around south east Queensland, and Kinetic Orthotics distributes to 150 podiatrists around the state and overseas. Dr Everson's trademarked orthotics design and prescription was evidence based.
"We had the ability to create a patent that was proof and research based - the traditional approach most podiatrists use is the actions they take and make aren't evidence based," he says.
Dr Everson has formerly joined together with QUT to establish an online education program and in a few very short months his first handbook for the mainstream public, Move Without Pain, will be generated.
Still on the search to effect neighborhood change, Dr Everson wants to set up a charity for children with disabilities later this year.
Dr Everson is part of Sunshine Coast Council's Export and Global Capability Program, which he says has provided great insight into the industry and will help bring jobs to the region.
His only wish is for more local businesses to get involved.
"The provision of services - that's human nature. (With) podiatry you take care of the patient. If you bother with the money you will never have enough and you will never be happy.".
It's almost 3 decades since Dr Everson launched his first clinic.
" Not many really knew what a podiatrist was. At that time if you explained to someone at a beer garden that you dealt with feet, they would excuse themselves to obtain a drink unlike the present day 'Really? Well maybe you can really help me. See I have this situation.,'," Dr Everson said happily.
"I had this plan in order to get established early.
"I wished to achieve a lot more than having a practice or two. I wasn't dedicated to that. I wanted to achieve a world first. This concerned making a difference.".
A few years later Dr Everson made a reservation for an appointment with a co-worker who made podiatry equipment using computer supported design. Within months he had the first Australian company to produce functional orthotics.
"It's kinda neat, that you can have a part in the way someone walks, mitigate pressures and strains of some areas and make an individual function more efficiently," he mentioned.
Dr Everson built his next brainchild, Kinetic Orthotics, and in accomplishing this, originated his own world first strategy.
His therapy uses highly developed computer integrated technology and a combo of foot morphology and kinetic clinical data to custom design and make orthotics for personal people.
These services were provided free of charge to Nambour hospital for 2 to 3 years, saving hospital organisation over $800,000 in admissions.
Dan Everson Podiatry now has six clinics around south east Queensland, and Kinetic Orthotics distributes to 150 podiatrists around the state and overseas. Dr Everson's trademarked orthotics design and prescription was evidence based.
"We had the ability to create a patent that was proof and research based - the traditional approach most podiatrists use is the actions they take and make aren't evidence based," he says.
Dr Everson has formerly joined together with QUT to establish an online education program and in a few very short months his first handbook for the mainstream public, Move Without Pain, will be generated.
Still on the search to effect neighborhood change, Dr Everson wants to set up a charity for children with disabilities later this year.
Dr Everson is part of Sunshine Coast Council's Export and Global Capability Program, which he says has provided great insight into the industry and will help bring jobs to the region.
His only wish is for more local businesses to get involved.
"The provision of services - that's human nature. (With) podiatry you take care of the patient. If you bother with the money you will never have enough and you will never be happy.".