Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Splint or brace
Patent
1997-06-26
1998-08-18
Dvorak, Linda C.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Splint or brace
602 65, A61F 500
Patent
active
057953163
ABSTRACT:
An ankle stabilizing appliance for restricting inversion and eversion of the foot while allowing flexion and dorsiflexion is described. The appliance includes a boot-like body member and a pair of stabilizing straps which extend in opposite directions toward the front of the body member. Each of the stabilizing straps is adapted to extend across and under the foot of the wearer, and then upwardly to a releasable attachment point on the side of the body member. A first fastener of a unidirectional fastener pair is positioned on a lower portion of the body member, in a position where it will be positioned beneath the calcaneus of a wearer when the device is worn. A mating fastener is positioned on a central portion of one of the stabilizing straps so that when the strap is wrapped across and under the foot of the wearer, the mating fasteners are secured together, and the unidirectional fastener protects against relative movement between the body member and the strap. In addition, the unidirectional fastener pair enables the stabilizing strap to be cinched tighter while the device is being worn, and protects the strap from having a tendency to loosen during wear. A pair of asymmetric malleoli pads are also provided on the body member such that they abut the wearer's malleoli and prevent the device from collapsing during wear as a result of downward forces caused by the securement of the stabilizing straps. The body member also includes one or more binding straps which are adapted to be looped around the ankle of the wearer, in an overlying relationship to the stabilizing straps.
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Dvorak Linda C.
Medical Specialties, Inc.
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