Built by podiatry-trained clinicians, proven by independent science.

Interpod was founded in 1999 by Graeme Simpson and Dan Thomas. Both started in human movement — degrees in sports science from Phillip Institute of Technology, now part of RMIT University — and went to work as fitness advisers and coaches. Day after day they watched athletes and active clients break down with lower-limb injuries, and kept running into the limits of what training alone could resolve. That's what sent them both back to study: a Bachelor of Podiatry at La Trobe University in Melbourne. They studied together, qualified together, and went into clinical practice together.

Before Interpod existed, Graeme ran a custom orthotic lab from his garage — making devices by hand for his own patients, one foot at a time. Twenty-five years of that work produced an uncomfortable conclusion: most of what's "custom" about a custom orthotic isn't actually custom. Length and width match the shoe size. The arch shape has no meaningful connection to the individual foot's morphology. The only genuine variable is how much support the patient needs — and that's a measurable clinical value, not a moulded one. Graeme reverse-engineered the process: three fixed support levels (Low, Moderate, High) calibrated to cover 95% of patients, with the measurement of support need handled at prescription. That became the design brief for the Interpod range, and the reason a prefab orthotic can deliver the same clinical outcome as a bespoke one at a fraction of the cost and time.

Twenty-five years in, Interpod is distributed through Algeos (the #1 prefab orthotic in the UK's NHS), Briggate, Allied Health, and Sportstek in Australia. For ten years, Boots commissioned Interpod to design and manufacture their UK private-label orthotic range — a diligence process few prefab brands ever face, let alone pass. Interpod also designed (not manufactured) the Dr Scholl orthotic range from 2004 to 2006. The La Trobe research published through that period confirmed what the clinical results had been saying: no statistical difference in comfort or fit between Interpod and custom-made orthotics (p=0.87, p=0.92). Zero Interpod devices needed post-fitting modification. 16.3% of the custom-made devices in the same study did.

The design features that separate medical-grade orthotics from retail insoles. Only Interpod and custom-made orthotics include all of these.

Every study listed below was conducted independently by the university — unpaid by Interpod. No other prefabricated orthotic brand in the world can make this claim at this scale.

8 independent studies · 5 universities · 4 countries · 27 years of clinical use

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