Relating to socks

• US 8,075,507 B2
• Filed: 11/27/2007
• Issued: 12/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Swelling Solutions, Inc. (Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Convatec Incorporated (ConvaTec Group Plc)
• Inventors: Hanmer, Paul, Wild, David G., Rowley, Duncan J., Tabron, Ian S., Bonnefin, Wayne L., Adams, Simon M., Linnane, Patrick G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown, Michael A.
• Application Number:
  US11/945,666
• Publication Number:
  US 20080071204A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,477 Days
• Field of Search: 602/30, 602 60- 63, 602/75, 602/23, 602/27, 2239-241, 661/72.E, 661/82, 661/85
• US Class Current: 602/23
• 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 compression therapy 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 sleeves with inflatable bladders which in use apply compression over the sock to the ankle and shin of the patient.

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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 sleeves with inflatable bladders of the kit of claim 1 separately and sequentially to the leg of a patient.