The office will be closed for vacation beginning Aug 12, and will reopen Aug 19, 2024

“To our clients, current and potential:
 
After 45 years of being in San Francisco, we moved our clinic and workshop to Novato, 23 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County.

The new address is:

       DAVIS SHOE THERAPEUTICS

       Diablo Hill Professional Center

       200 Professional Center Drive, Suite 222

       Novato, CA., 94947

Same phone # 415-661-8705

If you are coming from the North or East Bay Areas, that should be good news. For those of you in San Francisco and the South Bay, we hope the ease of parking and lack of congestion will console you.

If you come by airline, you are about 40 miles from both San Francisco and Oakland airports.

From North Bay, SF, or South Bay:   Take 101N or 101S to De Long Ave Exit 462B

From Solano/Contra Costa County: Take I-80W to CA-37W, merge onto 101N to De Long Ave Exit 462B

From East Bay: Take I-580 W/I-80 E across Richmond/San Rafael Bridge, merge onto 101N to De Long Ave Exit 462B

From De Long Ave Exit turn onto De Long Ave. This will turn into Diablo Blvd.

Continue on Diablo Blvd for about 1 mile until you get to a T intersection with Hill Road (two blocks past the 7-11). From the stop sign, you can see our complex straight ahead and up a small hill.  Turn LEFT at the stop sign, and then an immediate RIGHT into the first driveway.  Head up the driveway and park in front of Bldg 300 in front of the benches/redwood trees.  Bldg 200 is just behind it, and we are on the far left end.  You will not have to take the stairs.  *Please do not park in front of Bldg 100*

The clinic is open Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm, and closed from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm for lunch. By appointment only!

Experts in applied foot and ankle biomechanics!

Considered the finest custom shoe facility in the country for people with foot and gait problems!

Please click on video for a 3-minute overview!

What We Do

We listen to your frustrations about foot comfort, mobility, and meeting lifestyle needs, then offer personalized solutions based on affordability.

As pedorthists, we know feet, and we know footwear. We also know that formulaic solutions don’t work for everybody. At our comfortable facility, we offer creative solutions to chronic foot and footwear-related problems ranging from inexpensive shoe modifications or inserts to designing custom-made shoes and boots from scratch.  No other Pedorthic facility in the Bay Area has more experience or tools available to solve complicated foot and gait problems than we do.

How We Work

We work by appointments to assure you of personal attention and privacy.

Although people are most often referred by a physician, many come to us through word-of-mouth or by finding us on the Internet. If you are under the care of a physician for your problem, it is beneficial to get a prescription so we can contact your doctor and include his/her input to your treatment plan. For third-party payment, a doctor’s prescription is mandatory.

Our Founder

Prior to founding his business in 1977, Arnie Davis was the director of the Shoe Clinic at the California College of Podiatric Medicine and has been a faculty member in the Department of Biomechanics at the California Podiatry School at Samuel Merritt College in Oakland.

After a formal education in art and sculpture at California State University Northridge and the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, Mr. Davis apprenticed in custom shoemaking with a Hungarian Master Shoemaker in Pasadena. With his knowledge of shoemaking and his inherent understanding of body balance, he came to the California College of Podiatric Medicine in 1975 to learn foot biomechanics from the leading experts in the field in order to integrate this emerging science into the antiquated and dying craft of custom shoemaking. He became a Certified Pedorthist in 1981, and as a result of this ongoing professional and academic relationship with the Podiatry College, also became an educator and leader in the field of pedorthics, serving on the board of directors and executive board of the Pedorthic Footwear Association.

Mr. Davis is the author of A Guide to Custom Shoe Therapy and of two chapters in the textbook Introduction to Pedorthics. He has chaired 2 national symposiums and lectured nationally at seminars for Podiatry, Pedorthics, Orthopedic Surgery, and Orthotics / Prosthetics, and in 2010 was invited to speak at an orthopedic conference in Beijing China. He served as an expert witness in several lawsuits and as a consultant on government funded shoe research projects for the VA, for the Research Triangle Institute, and for the University of North Carolina.

For a more personal story, see the article published in the San Francisco Chronicle in January, 2011.

Get in touch

We at Davis Shoe Therapeutics understand that people have concerns about cost versus value. That’s why we suggest a consultation with one of our pedorthists to listen to your needs and walk you through your options.

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