RELATING TO SOCKS

• US 20080071204A1
• Filed: 11/27/2007
• Published: 03/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Swelling Solutions, Inc. (Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
• Inventors: Adams, Simon, Linnane, Patrick, Tabron, Ian, Rowley, Duncan, Bonnefin, Wayne, Wild, David, Hanmer, Paul
• Granted Patent: US 8,075,507 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 601/151
• CPC Class Codes: A41B 2400/20 Air permeability; Ventilation
• CPC Class Codes: A41B 2400/32 Therapeutic use
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/08 Elastic stockings; for contracting aneurisms
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 15/004 Bandage protectors
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1697 Breathability of the material

Abstract

A sock suitable for wearing on a limb of a patient, the sock comprising material having the ability to wick moisture away from the skin surface and the sock comprising padding located in those areas of the sock which in use will cover the ankle and shin of the patient.

Claims

1. A kit comprising a sock suitable for wearing on a limb of a patient, the sock comprising material having the ability to wick moisture away from the skin surface and the sock comprising padding located in those areas of the sock which in use will cover the ankle and shin of the patient, and one or more compression applying means.

2. The kit according to claim 1, wherein the compression applying means is a compression sleeve.

3. The kit according to claim 1, wherein the sock and compression applying means are applied separately and sequentially to the leg of the patient.

4. The kit according to claim 1, wherein the sock comprises one or more wicking fibers on the side of the sock that in use is in contact with the patient'"'"'s skin and includes absorbent material on the side of the sock that in use is on the outer surface of the sock.

5. The kit according to claim 1, wherein a foot portion of the sock is of lower friction on the side of the sock that in use is on the outer surface of the sock than on the side that in use is on the inner surface of the sock.

6. A method for the treatment of venous leg ulcers, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), vascular disorders or the reduction of oedema comprising applying the sock and the one or more compression applying means of the kit of claim 1 separately and sequentially to the leg of a patient.

7. A method for the treatment of venous leg ulcers, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), vascular disorders or the reduction of oedema comprising applying the sock and the one or more compression applying means of the kit of claim 2 separately and sequentially to the leg of a patient.