Forty years of commitment to foot care
For 40 years, Howard Hillman, C.Ped., owner of Signature Custom Orthotic Lab, Inc., has been designing, manufacturing and building custom foot orthotics for podiatrists and their patients. Four decades of hands-on experience go into every device the lab produces.
- 1986Founded Rocky Mountain Orthotics Lab
- 2005Became an ABC Certified Pedorthist
- 2013Founded Signature Custom Orthotic Lab, Inc.
- 202640 years designing and building custom foot orthotics
Howard Hillman, C.Ped.
Howard is the owner of Signature Custom Orthotic Lab, Inc. and an ABC Certified Pedorthist. He has spent four decades designing, manufacturing and building custom foot orthotics, and earning the trust of the podiatrists his lab serves.
Howard began his career at Biomechanics Technology, then founded Rocky Mountain Orthotics Lab in 1986. He earned his C.Ped. in 2005 and went on to found Signature Custom Orthotic Lab, Inc. in 2013.
What is a Certified Pedorthist?
The C.Ped. credential is awarded by the American Board for Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics and Pedorthics. It requires specialized education, supervised patient-care experience, a certification exam and continuing education.
Certified Pedorthists specialize in foot orthoses, therapeutic footwear, and shoe modifications that prevent or relieve painful conditions of the foot and ankle.
Serving physicians and physical therapists from the Great Lakes to the Rocky Mountains, and coast to coast.
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Digitally designed. Hand‑finished in the USA.
Signature Custom Orthotic Lab, Inc. is a family-owned and family-operated lab. Every product we make is hand-finished here in the United States, combining skilled handwork with digital technology.
We fabricate custom foot orthotics and ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) for podiatrists and their patients. Every device is built to the patient's foot and the podiatrist's prescription.
We use only the highest quality materials available, and each device goes through a minimum of 12 quality control checks. Our CAD/CAM system gives every device precise, repeatable accuracy, and we finish each one by hand before it ships.
Second pairs are reproduced with 100% accuracy from digital files in our archive, including orders originally made by Rocky Mountain Orthotics Lab (RMOL).
Sailor, pilot, navigator
Mr. Hillman is a husband and father and an ordained Anglican priest (H.C.C.A.R.). He is also a single-handed sailor and navigator, SCUBA diver, private pilot and photographer.
He currently resides in Applegate, Michigan, where Signature Custom Orthotic Lab, Inc. is based.
Forty years of dedication. One simple way to order.
SigScan 2.0: order, scan, upload, complete. A guided 3D foot scan accurate to 1 mm sends your order straight to our lab, from a native app or any web browser.
The Hillman family wishes you good health. We hope you stay fit and active, and enjoy all the blessings life brings, with friends, family and the things you love to do.
Peace.
The Hillman Family