Multifunction, contact-pressure-managing ankle boots

An apparatus to be worn by a user proximate the user's ankle to manage pressure and swelling proximate the ankle, the apparatus comprising:

• a wrap shaped to conform to a portion of a foot and a lower leg of the user and configured to cover and apply pressure to a bandaged area of the user's anatomy proximate the user's ankle, the wrap including:
• multiple layers including at least four compressible layers, at least one of the multiple layers including a compressible foam;
• a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge, the first and second lateral edges defining a channel extending between them, the channel sized to receive a portion of the foot and the lower leg;
• a leg portion on a first longitudinal end of the wrap in a position to contact the bandaged area proximate the lower leg;
• and
• a foot portion on a second longitudinal end of the wrap opposite the first longitudinal end in a position to contact the bandaged area proximate the foot, the leg portion configured to be flexibly angled from the foot portion;
• wherein:
• the wrap is configured to be fitted around a portion of the foot and the lower leg to apply a substantially constant anatomical contact pressure to the bandaged area that is great enough to restrict swelling in the bandaged area from fluid accumulating in the bandaged area and is small enough to avoid restricting blood flow through veins in the bandaged area;
• the wrap is configured to partially compress the compressible foam and increase the anatomical contact pressure applied to the bandaged area when the second lateral edge of the wrap is pulled toward the first lateral edge of the wrap
• the compressible foam is pre-compressed substantially throughout the bandaged area to place the compressible foam in a plateau compression condition where it applies a substantially consistent anatomical contact pressure across substantially all of the bandaged area.