Styloid Process Notch
A notch that accommodates a prominent 5th metatarsal base, a common lateral pressure point.
Relieves the 5th met base
Eases lateral-border pressure
Shaped to the prominence
How it works
The styloid process, the base of the fifth metatarsal, is one of the most exposed prominences on the lateral border, and any orthotic with lateral contour can press straight into it. The notch recesses the shell around the prominence so the border runs past it without contact.
It's a small cut with an outsized comfort effect, especially in cavus feet and after fifth-metatarsal injuries where the base stays sensitive long after the bone has healed.
When to prescribe it
- A prominent or tender 5th metatarsal base
- Post Jones-fracture or avulsion-fracture sensitivity
- Cavus feet loading the lateral border
- Lateral wall prescriptions that would otherwise press the styloid
- Peroneus brevis insertional tenderness
How we build it
We locate the styloid on the scan and cut a blended notch exactly around it: sized to the prominence, no guesswork, preserved identically on every reprint.
Located from the scan
Sized to the prominence
Blended edges
Lateral support kept elsewhere