Dr. Bert Fields of the Moses Cone Sports Medicine Center will analyze your gait (observe your body mechanics while walking and/or running). Gait analysis is commonly used to help athletes run more efficiently and to identify posture-related or movement-related problems in people with injuries.  Dr. Fields will then custom mold and fit a pair of orthotics.

About Dr. Fields

Dr. Fields graduated with Distinction from the University of Kentucky School of Medicine in 1976 and the Charlotte Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency in 1979. After one year as Director of Public Health on the Island of St. Croix, he entered private practice in rural North Carolina in 1980. In 1984, he joined the faculty at Moses H. Cone Family Medicine Residency. In 1985, he completed a Faculty Development Fellowship at the University  of North Carolina with an emphasis on Sports Medicine Research. Dr. Fields is now a Professor of Family Medicine and Associate Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at Chapel Hill. He has remained active in teaching medical students, residents and Sports Medicine students since 1980. He has been a volunteer Team physician for middle, high school and college teams, and continues to evaluate elite athletes, particularly runners, triathletes and tennis players. He was also a volunteer at the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center in 1985. Dr. Fields is past President of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. He is active with the North Carolina Medical Society's Sports Medicine Committee, the American Academy of Family Physicians, Sports Medicine Review Course and the American  College of Sports Medicine. He is an editor with the British Journal of Sports Medicine. He also coordinates international exchanges with Australia. In addition to sports medicine, Dr. Fields' other areas of expertise include exercise physiology, stress testing and orthotic preparation.