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US 2012/0232453 A1Published application
Digital strapping system and method
AssigneesLowell Scott Weil, JR., Lowell Scott Weil
InventorsDean Cropper, Lowell Scott Weil, SR., Lowell Scott Weil, JR.
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Abstract
A digital strapping system comprising an alternatively configurable hallux strap system for positioning and exercising a hallux of a foot, and/or an alternatively configurable osteotomy strap system for positioning and exercising a second and/or third digit of a foot.
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A hallux control strap system, comprising:
- a hallux pocket portion at least a part of which is configured to at least partially receive or abut against a hallux of a foot;
- a first strap member extending from the hallux pocket portion and terminating to a first free end;
- a second strap member extending from the hallux pocket portion and terminating to a second free end;
- said first and second strap members configured to cross after extending from the hallux pocket portion and before terminating to the first and second free ends for defining a substantially parallel or cruciate strap configuration extending from the hallux pocket portion and terminating to the first and second free ends, wherein the first and second strap members are alternately configurable to extend at a variety of angles with respect to one another, but are attached to the hallux pocket portion so as to extend at about a 30 degree to about a 180 degree angle with respect to each other when both are in an unwrapped and unfolded, single coplanar state;
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- means for removeably anchoring the first and second free ends to a covered or naked portion of the foot.
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A hallux control strap system, comprising:
- a hallux pocket portion at least a part of which is configured to at least partially receive a hallux of the foot;
- a first strap member extending from the hallux pocket portion and terminating to a first free end;
- a second strap member extending from the hallux pocket portion and terminating to a second free end wherein the first and second strap members are configured to cross after extending from said hallux pocket portion and before terminating to the first and second free ends for defining a cruciate strap configuration having a crossing of the first and second strap members, the first and second strap members being alternately configurable to extend at a variety of angle with respect to one another, but are attached to the hallux pocket portion so as to extend at about a 30 degree angle to about a 180 degree angle with respect to each other when both are in an unwrapped and unfolded, single coplanar state;
- an elastic band extending from the hallux pocket portion and terminating to a third free end;
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- means for removeably attaching the first, second, and third free ends to at least one mid-foot compression strap configured to encircle at least a mid-foot location of a foot of a patient, sleeve or sock, in alternate configurations.
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A hallux control strap system, comprising:
- a mid-foot circumscribing member configured to encircle at least a mid-foot location of a foot of a patient;
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- a hallux control strap comprising:
- a cruciate strap configuration comprising a first strap member crossing a second strap member and said first and second strap members having attached co-planar first ends forming a hallux pocket portion from which said first strap member extends in a first direction and terminates to a first free end and from which said second strap member extends in a second direction and terminates to a second free end, wherein the first direction is at angle of about a 30 degree angle to about a 180 degree angle with respect to the second direction;
- an elastic band having a first end attached to said hallux pocket portion and a second free end;
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- means for removeably attaching said second free end of said first strap member, said second free end of said second strap member, and said second free end of said elastic band to said mid-foot circumscribing member.
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An osteotomy strap system, said system comprising:
- a mid-foot circumscribing strap member, sleeve or sock configured to encircle at least a mid-foot location of a foot of a patient;
- an osteotomy strap comprising:
- a toe encircling strap member configured to closely and entirely encircle substantially all of a length of at least one toe;
- an elongated base member substantially perpendicular with and attached to the toe encircling strap member;
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- means for attaching said elongated base member to varying positions along a plantar surface of said mid-foot circumscribing member to splint at least the one surgical toe of the patient in a splinted, plantarflexed position.
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An osteotomy strap system, said system comprising:
- a mid-foot circumscribing strap member, sleeve or sock configured to encircle at least a mid-foot location of a foot;
- an osteotomy strap comprising:
- a toe encircling strap member configured to closely and entirely encircle substantially all of a length of at least one toe;
- an elastic band attached to said toe encircling strap member;
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- means for attaching said elastic band to a dorsal surface of the mid-foot circumscribing member, sleeve or sock to position the at least the one toe of the foot in a dorsiflexed position under resistance of said elastic band against which at least the one toe can apply a force to move from the dorsiflexed position toward a plantar plane of the foot for actively exercising at least the at least one toe.
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An osteotomy strap system, said system comprising:
- a mid-foot circumscribing member configured to encircle at least a mid-foot location of a foot of a patient;
- at least two alternate osteotomy straps each individually detachably connectable to said mid-foot circumscribing member and to at least one surgical toe of the foot of the patient;
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- wherein one of at least said two alternate osteotomy straps comprises:
- a toe encircling member configured to encircle at least one surgical toe of the patient;
- an elongated base member substantially perpendicular with and attached to said toe encircling member;
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- means for attaching said elongated base member to a plantar surface of said mid-foot circumscribing member to splint at least the one surgical toe of the patient in a plantarflexed position;
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- wherein another of at least said two alternate osteotomy straps comprises:
- a toe encircling member configured to encircle at least one surgical toe of the patient;
- an elastic band attached to said toe encircling member;
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- means for attaching said elastic band to a dorsal surface of said mid-foot circumscribing member to position said at least the one surgical toe of the foot of the patient in a dorsiflexed position under resistance of said elastic band against which at least the one surgical toe can apply a force to move from the dorsiflexed position toward a plantar plane of the foot for actively exercising at least the one surgical toe.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.