Orthopaedic appliance for improved gait
First Claim
1. A sole (300) to be placed under a patient'"'"'s foot inside a shoe or being part of an orthopaedic appliance, comprising material arranged to provide said sole with a first flexural resistance at a first area of said sole and a second flexural resistance at a second area of said sole, characterised in that a boundary line (302), separating said areas of different flexural resistance, has a curved shape resembling an S (302) where said S (302) extends from a lateral side of the sole to a medial side of the sole, such that said first area extends essentially over the toe portion and at the same time over a part of the medial side portion of said sole, and that said second area extends over the heel portion and at the same time over most of the lateral side portion of the sole such that when said sole is used by the patient the ground counter-force progression line is shifted in a direction from a position over the little toe (102) to a position over the big toe (101) thereby helping to correct an inappropriate gait resulting from e.g an injury.
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Abstract
A sole to be placed under a patient'"'"'s foot inside a shoe or being part of a prosthesis or an orthosis, with the purpose of correcting a person'"'"'s gait, characterised in that the sole have two or more areas of different flexural resistance. The boundary line between the different areas have a certain shape resembling an “S”. The sole is made up of carbon fibre composites, aramid fibre composites and/or other materials, and the differences in flexural resistance are achieved for example by applying composite materials with the reinforcing fibres arranged as parallel fibres, or weave, or fabric with the fibres crossing each other at different angels and in different number of layers in different parts of the sole or applying different types of fabric and weave in different areas.
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- 1. A sole (300) to be placed under a patient'"'"'s foot inside a shoe or being part of an orthopaedic appliance, comprising material arranged to provide said sole with a first flexural resistance at a first area of said sole and a second flexural resistance at a second area of said sole, characterised in that a boundary line (302), separating said areas of different flexural resistance, has a curved shape resembling an S (302) where said S (302) extends from a lateral side of the sole to a medial side of the sole, such that said first area extends essentially over the toe portion and at the same time over a part of the medial side portion of said sole, and that said second area extends over the heel portion and at the same time over most of the lateral side portion of the sole such that when said sole is used by the patient the ground counter-force progression line is shifted in a direction from a position over the little toe (102) to a position over the big toe (101) thereby helping to correct an inappropriate gait resulting from e.g an injury.
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