Protective medical boot and orthotic splint

A medical boot, comprising:

• a substantially boot-shaped main body portion formed primarily of a substantially soft, flexible, compressible, shape-retaining material having a foot portion, an ankle portion;
• and a heel opening;
• splint means for supporting the limb of a user with his foot disposed in the boot-shaped main body portion comprising:
• a substantially rigid insole connected to the foot portion of the main body portion of the boot so as to moveable therewith;
• the insole being disposed in the foot portion of the boot;
• a substantially rigid splint bar, and means for connecting the splint bar to the ankle portion of the boot;
• hinge means for connecting the insole to the splint bar such that the insole is moveable to a selected angular position with respect to the splint bar;
• the hinge means comprising an elongated hinge member having one end received in the heel opening and connected to the insole;
• pin means connecting the opposite end of the hinge member to the splint bar;
• and
• means for locking the hinge means in said selected angular position, comprising the splint bar having a pair of spaced lugs, said hinge member being received between the lugs, the lugs having pairs of aligned openings, the hinge member having a toe swingeable between the pairs of aligned openings, and locking pin means being received in a selected aligned pair of said openings in the lugs to engage the toe of the hinge in a selected angular position.