sole supports inc.
lyles, tennessee
For over twenty years, Sole Supports has been an innovative, medical-grade foot orthotics manufacturer, pioneering a completely new paradigm for foot correction, and the casting and manufacturing technology that implements it. Our CEO and founder, Dr. Edward S. Glaser, DPM, started the company with one core principle: We Make People Better. We make thousands of pairs of orthotics a year to help achieve this goal, treating everyone from professional athletes to elderly patients who are having trouble just taking that first step in the morning.
WE MAKE PEOPLE BETTER
Sole Supports is the second largest employer in Hickman County, Tennessee. Our facility houses all our Corporate Offices as well as the Production Lab, where Sole Supports are created.
Edward S. Glaser, DPM
Biography
Sole Supports CEO and founder, Edward S. Glaser, DPM, is a podiatrist and foot biomechanist, and the mind behind the MASS Posture Theory of foot biomechanics.
With a career spanning 40 years, Dr. Glaser has earned an international reputation for completely reimagining foot orthotics and the way practitioners address biomechanics in the foot, lower extremity, and ultimately, the entire body. Dr. Glaser’s MASS Posture Theory of foot biomechanics offers a unique, engineering-based approach to foot biomechanics that sets Sole Supports’ custom orthotics apart. His groundbreaking research has been published in multiple medical journals, including the Foot and Ankle Online Journal, and is taught at dozens of podiatry and chiropractic colleges across the country. Dr. Glaser is also a professional speaker, having lectured at over 1,500 medical conferences and institutions worldwide.
Dr. Glaser's professional journey began at SUNY Stony Brook, where he completed a Bachelor of Science in biology with a strong concentration in mechanical engineering. He later went on to earn his doctorate in podiatry from the New York College of Podiatric Medicine. After 13 years leading a successful clinical practice in Middle Tennessee, he made the bold decision to step away and challenge conventional orthopedics with the development of MASS Posture Theory. Thirty years and well over a million pairs of orthotics later, Dr. Glaser continues to realize his life's mission through Sole Supports, the custom orthotics lab he founded in 1992.
Since 2014, Dr. Glaser has broadened his biomechanics research and developed Relax, Release, Relief (RRR). This series of manual release techniques is designed to mechanically interrupt the positive feedback loops that often affect the body's connective tissue and contribute to many instances of chronic pain. Dr. Glaser generously offers his RRR techniques free of charge, driven by his objective to correct patients' posture and make a life-changing difference for those experiencing lasting pain.