Orthopedic device
OwnerRenald A. Coteinventor
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Abstract
An orthopedic assembly for the treatment of congenital and acquired deformities in children's legs or feet that provide for continuous adjustment of the child's shoes to the assembly, and are readily removable. The assembly comprises a pair of plate members each substantially larger than a child's shoe, a bar for attaching the plate members together and VELCRO fasteners between the bottoms of the child's shoes and the plate members. A tab is provided on each of the shoe bottoms to facilitate release of the fasteners on the shoe bottoms and plate members. Indicia preferably are provided on the plate members to indicate relative orientations that the shoes may assume with respect to the plate members.
Claims7
An orthopedic assembly for attachment to a child's shoes comprising:
- a pair of plate members, each substantially larger than a child's shoe;
- a pair of children's shoes adapted to be operatively attached to said plate members;
- means for operatively attaching said plate members together so that they are disposed in a common plane and so that they cannot rotate with respect to each other or said attaching means;
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- means for operatively attaching said pair of plate members to said pair of child's shoes so that the angular position the shoes may assume relative to the plate members is continuously adjustable, and so that the shoes are readily removable from the plate members, said means comprising cooperating hook and loop fastening means attached to coplanar faces of said plate members, and to the bottoms of said shoes.
An orthopedic assembly for attachment to a child's shoes comprising:
- a pair of plate members each substantially larger than a child's shoe;
- means for operatively attaching said plate members together so that they are disposed in a common plane;
- a pair of children's shoes;
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- means for operatively attaching said pair of plate members to a pair of children's shoes, said means comprising cooperating hook and loop fastening means attached to coplanar faces of said plate members, and to the bottoms of said children's shoes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.