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SOME boots were created walking. Others need a little tweak. Just consult podiatrist Dan Everson.

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It's almost 3 decades since Dr Everson kicked off his first clinic.

" Not many really understood what a podiatrist was. Back then if you disclosed to someone at a watering hole that you dealt with feet, they would excuse themselves to acquire a drink rather than the present day 'Really? Well perhaps you can really help me. See I have this complication.,'," Dr Everson said laughingly.

"I had this plan in order to get established early.

"I wished to achieve a lot more than just having a practice or two. I wasn't attracted to that. I wished to achieve a world first. This had to do with making a difference.".

A few years later Dr Everson set up an appointment with a colleague who made podiatry devices using computer assisted design. Within months he had the first Australian business to make functional orthotics.

"It's kinda marvelous, that you can affect the way someone walks, soothe pressures and strains of some areas and make an individual function more efficiently," he mentioned.

Dr Everson developed his second brainchild, Kinetic Orthotics, and in doing this, pioneered his own world first approach.

His therapy uses cutting-edge computer integrated technology and a mixture of foot morphology and kinetic clinical data to custom design and make orthotics for personal sufferers.

These services were provided at no cost to Nambour hospital for two to three years, saving hospital administration over $800,000 in admissions.

Dan Everson Podiatry now has six clinics around south east Queensland, and Kinetic Orthotics distributes to 150 podiatrists around the nation and overseas. Dr Everson's copyrighted orthotics design and prescription was evidence based.

"We were able to create a patent that was evidence and research based - the typical approach most podiatrists use is the measures they take and make aren't evidence based," he says.

Dr Everson has formerly collaborated with QUT to create an online education program and in a few very short months his first publication for the mainstream public, Move Without Pain, will be launched.

Still on the search to effect neighborhood change, Dr Everson intends to establish a charity for children with disabilities later this year.

Dr Everson is part of Sunshine Coast Council's Export and Global Capability Program, which he says has provided great insight into the industry and will help bring jobs to the region.

His only wish is for more local businesses to get involved.

"The provision of services - that's humanity. (With) podiatry you look after the patient. If you fret about the money you will never have enough and you will never be happy.".