53 results about "Lateral malleolus" patented technology

A bone fixation plate for fixation of fractures having a small terminal bone fragment, such as fractures of the lateral malleolus. The bone fixation plate includes an elongated body, and two hook members extending from a first end of the elongated body. Each hook member curves back upon a bottom surface of the elongated body, back towards a second end of the elongated body, and terminating in a pointed prong region. The elongated body includes a first region, a second region, and an angled region disposed between the first and second region. The prong region has a longitudinal axis that is substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the angled region of the elongated body of the bone plate. A double barreled drill guide and associated interchangeable cooperating inner drill guides and gauges are provided to facilitate the drilling of pilot holes in a terminal bone fragment for axial insertion of the pointed prong regions of the hook members.

An osteosynthesis plate suitable for the fixation of fractures of the distal fibula / lateral malleolus includes a twisted distal portion and a proximal portion with a constant orientation that is perfectly congruent with the actual geometry of the distal fibula and it can be positioned with a rear orientation in the distal region. An osteosynthesis plate according to the invention favours, among other things, the restoration of the length and bone rotation and the peroneal-talar joint congruence, decreases tissue sufferance and facilitates the positioning of syndesmosis screws.

A bone plating system comprising: a plate, where the plate is low-profile and capable of contouring to a bone; a variable number of screw holes, locking or non-locking; at least one channel or tunnel through the plate; and at least one flexible device passing through the channel or tunnel and passing through soft tissue attached to the bone. The low profile plate, in combination with the flexible device passing through the surrounding soft tissue, functions as a tension band and acts to neutralize the muscle forces tending to pull the bone apart at a fracture. The low profile tension band plating system is targeted for periarticular tensile fractures for repair of patella, olecranon, greater trochanter, greater tuberosity, radial styloid, lateral or medial malleoli, or lateral malleolus.

A bone plating system comprising: a plate, where the plate is low-profile and capable of contouring to a bone; a variable number of screw holes, locking or non-locking; at least one channel or tunnel through the plate; and at least one flexible device passing through the channel or tunnel and passing through soft tissue attached to the bone. The low profile plate, in combination with the flexible device passing through the surrounding soft tissue, functions as a tension band and acts to neutralize the muscle forces tending to pull the bone apart at a fracture. The low profile tension band plating system is targeted for periarticular tensile fractures for repair of patella, olecranon, greater trochanter, greater tuberosity, radial styloid, lateral or medial malleoli, or lateral malleolus.

Aspects hereof relate to protective gear that is comfortable and supportive. The protective gear is a knitted or woven sleeve with impact-dampening pads of different shapes and sizes placed in strategic areas of the sleeve to provide protection to a foot and ankle area of an athlete's foot. In particular, the impact-dampening pads are placed on areas of the sleeve corresponding to a lower shin portion, a medial and lateral malleolus, and the Achilles tendon of an athlete wearing the protective gear.

A goalie skate having a skate boot comprising a thermoformed outer shell with a sole and an ankle portion for receiving the ankle of the foot, the ankle portion comprising medial and lateral sides for facing the medial and lateral malleoli respectively, the medial side comprising an upper edge that is a first distance away from the sole and the lateral side comprising an upper edge that is a second distance away from the sole, the first distance being greater than the second distance. By having a goalie skate boot that has the lateral upper edge located below the medial upper edge, the lateral outward flexion of the foot is eased when the goalie skate is in an angled position. The invention also relates to a goalie skate with a skate boot comprising an outer shell that is thermoformed such that it comprises an integrated toe portion, thereby eliminating the traditional toe cap.

A method of manufacturing an ice skate for enclosing a human foot when in use, the foot having a heel, an ankle with a medial malleolus and a lateral malleolus, a plantar surface, medial and lateral sides and toes. The method comprises (a) providing a sheet of thermoformable material; (b) thermoforming the sheet of thermoformable material to form an outer shell comprising (i) a heel portion for receiving the heel of the foot; (ii) an ankle portion for receiving the ankle; (iii) medial and lateral side portions for facing the medial and lateral sides of the foot respectively, the medial and lateral side portions extending forwardly from the heel portion and the ankle portion, one of the medial and lateral side portions comprising a skirt portion being integrally formed therewith; (c) folding the skirt portion to form a sole having an upper surface for facing the plantar surface of the foot and a bottom surface; and (d) mounting an ice skate blade holder to the bottom surface of the sole.

The invention relates to a combination type ankle joint three-dimensional traction fixing frame. The fixing frame mainly comprises a horseshoe-shaped ring and four carbon fiber connecting rods. Three Kirschner pins are locked through pin locking screws, pass through heel bones, shin bones and metatarsal bones three-dimensionally and are fixed on the horseshoe-shaped ring and the four carbon fiberconnecting rods; and one or more ejector pins are locked through the pin locking screws to fix an inner ankle, an outer ankle and a rear ankle of an ankle bone. The fixing frame has a compact and stable structure, is convenient to use and detach and has low using cost, ankle joints and fracture blocks are firmly fixed, periosteum is not required to be stripped by a surgery, and the healing of damaged ankle joints is facilitated.

The invention discloses a wearable knee-crawling movement physiological parameter detection device. The wearable knee-crawling movement physiological parameter detection device comprises a hollow cylindrical device body, a surface electromyography detection module, a pressure detection module, a knee joint angle detection module and a data transmission module, wherein the surface electromyography detection module, the pressure detection module, the knee joint angle detection module and the data transmission module are arranged on the device body. The surface electromyography detection module is suitable for collecting and processing surface electromyography signals of quadriceps femoris and hamstring muscles to obtain surface electromyography data generated in the muscle contraction process. The pressure detection module is suitable for detecting and processing the pressure of lower limbs and contact surfaces to obtain pressure data of the lower limbs and the contact surfaces. The knee joint angle detection module is suitable for detecting and processing the joint angle generated in the flexion and extension process of knee joints to obtain joint angle data generated in the flexion and extension process of the knee joints. The data transmission module corresponds to the lateral malleolus of the thighbone and is used for transmitting the surface electromyography data, the pressure data and the joint angle data to a data analysis terminal in real time. The wearable knee-crawling movement physiological parameter detection device is suitable for detecting the knee-crawling movement physiological parameters of infants who only can crawl, but can not walk yet.

The invention discloses a personalized porous structure astragalus restoration, an osteotomy surgical guide plate and a design method thereof. The design method comprises the following steps of extracting CT data, reconstructing a three-dimensional model of astragalus, and exporting a stl format file; importing the stl file into a three-dimensional modelling software Rhinoceros for an inverse modeling design; using a three-knife method to perform osteotomy, and obtaining a curved surface fitted with curvature of a curved surface of an original astragalus hinge joint through matching; using a grasshopper plug-in to design a random surface porous structure on a prosthesis osteotomy surface, improving the biocompatibility of a prosthesis, facilitating new bone ingrowth, fixedly using a lateral malleolus articular surface as a fixing surface, and designing the osteotomy surgical guide plate; assembling the surgical guide plate, the astragalus prosthesis and a astragalus styl model, and establishing a virtual astragalus osteotomy and repair navigation. The method is based on the CT data of the astragalus of a patient, and combined with the reverse modeling design and an forward modelingdesign to design the astragalus restoration and the osteotomy navigation.

An ankle support having a leg portion connected sidewardly and rearwardly to a foot portion by at least one elongate resilient C-shaped member extending vertically on at least one medial or lateral side of an Achilles tendon of a wearer, wherein the at least one C-shaped member opens forwardly around at least one medial or lateral malleoli of the wearer, and wherein the at least one C-shaped member is constructed and arranged to allow natural functional ankle movement in both dorsiflexion and plantar flexion with minimal impedance while controllably inhibiting rolling ankle movement in inversion or eversion.

The present invention includes a walking boot device which immobilizes the ankle at about a 90° angle using a single anterior post that is angled at about 90° at an ankle joint from a lateral view, and encompasses an anterior one half of a calf proximally, and a dorsal one half of a forefoot distally. The post includes medial and lateral wings. The present invention defines an area for a medial and lateral malleolus and is narrow at the ankle and wider at the calf for a more anatomical fit. The present invention is secured to a leg using hook and loop fastener (Velcro®) strapping attached proximally around the calf posteriorly, away from any bony prominences. The hook and loop fastener (Velcro®) strapping is attached to the medial and lateral wings through brackets that are riveted into the wings. The present invention further includes foam inserts and a pneumatic bladder.

The invention discloses a dilator in the total knee arthroplasty, and belongs to the field of medical instruments. By means of the dilator, balance between soft tissues on the inner side and the outer side of the knee joint can be measured. The dilator comprises a pincer-shaped body and a dilating end. The dilating end is arranged at the far end of the pincer-shaped body and comprises a thigh-bone-side part and a tibia-side part. The thigh-bone-side part comprises a U-shaped dilating plate and a bearing-type device. The U-shaped dilating plate is divided into the inner side and the outer side which correspond to the medial malleolus and the lateral malleolus at the far end of the thigh bone after bone cutting in the TKA. The bearing-type device is arranged at the root of the U-shaped dilating plate and provided with scale marks which correspond to the thigh-bone outward-rotation angle of a trapezoid gap during prosthesis buckling. The inner side and the outer side of the U-shaped dilating plate can rotate around the bearing-type device. The tibia-side part is a rectangular dilating plate similar to the cross section of the tibial plateau in shape. The dilator is simple in structure and low in cost, the two-side intervals on the thigh-bone side and the tibia side can be compared at the same time, balance between the inner side and the outer side of the knee joint in the TKA is guaranteed, and convenience is brought to clinic popularization.

The invention relates to a shoe try-on sensing measuring instrument and a measuring method thereof. The shoe try-on sensing measuring instrument comprises a plane base plate. The plane base plate is in the shape of a flattie base plate. The plane base plate is provided with a longitudinal axle wire. The front end, the medial malleolus end and the lateral malleolus end of the plane base plate are each provided with a plurality of protruding size arcs. A plurality of sets of circumference rulers are transversely arranged on the plane base plate and sequentially include the toe circumference ruler, the toe circumference ruler, the instep girth circumference ruler and the pocket root circumference ruler from the end to the root of the plane base plate. The measuring method of the shoe try-on sensing measuring instrument comprises four steps, and the detailed size data of a foot of a testee can be precisely measured and worked out. The shoe try-on sensing measuring instrument is simple in structure, convenient to operate, capable of precisely measuring foot size data of different testees.

The invention relates to an absorbable ankle fusion device, which comprises a prismatic hollow pile frame made from polymer materials capable of being absorbed by the human body, and a shoulder frame matched with the pile frame and made from polymer materials capable of being absorbed by the human body; wherein the lateral surface of the pile frame is provided with a bone graft contact hole and anutrient foramen; a penetrating hole spliced with the pile frame is arranged in the middle of the shoulder frame, the two ends of the shoulder frame are respectively provided with two wings which bend downwards and are respectively arranged in gaps between a malleolus medialis and an ankle bone and between a lateral malleolus and the ankle bone, and two wings of the shoulder frame are respectively provided with bone graft contact holes and nutrient foramens. The absorbable ankle fusion device has the advantages of simple structure, convenience for operation and use safety, can realize the interior fixation between a tibia and the ankle bone and enable a grafted autologous bone to fully contact a surface of a new bone wound, which is beneficial to the formation of bone fusion.

An orthopedic screw for reducing a malleolus bone fracture that includes a unitary shaft with screw threads on a distal end of the shaft and a head on a proximal end. An enlarged terminal end segment of the head includes a socket for receiving a tool adapted for rotating the screw into aligned fibula and malleolus bone fragments at the fracture site. First and second spaced-apart tapered transition segments are formed at a juncture of the shaft and head and a juncture of the head and an enlarged terminal end segment of the head the such that rotation of the screw provides progressively increased fracture-reducing pressure between the fibula and malleolus bone fragments as the first and second tapered transition segments drives the malleolus against the fibula. A method of using the screw for reducing a malleolus bone fracture is also disclosed.

The invention provides a foot massage device. The foot massage device comprises a T-strap and an electric gasket. The T-strap comprises side face shoe uppers on two faces, an adjustable adhesive shoe lace, a hollow rear shoe upper and a T-shaped shoe plate. The front ends of the side face shoe uppers on the two faces are not connected. The instep face is open, and one side of the rear end of the T-shaped shoe plate stretches out in the horizontal direction. The electric gasket comprises a massage device, an acupoint magnet therapy device, a heating device, an overload protector, a voice prompting module, a music playing device, a power module, keys and a mouth cloth bag. The mouth cloth bag is filled with foam particles. The foot massage device has the advantages that the structure is simple, use is convenient, the anti-spinning acting force is scattered, the anti-spinning power is high, foot drop and heel, malleolus medialis and lateral malleolus pressure sores can be avoided, pains caused by nerve oppression are relieved, blood circulation of the affected limbs is promoted, the anti-spinning effect is reliable, the nursing workload is reduced, complications are reduced, and the satisfaction and the comfort level of a patient are improved.

A skate boot for enclosing a human foot when in use, the foot having a heel, an ankle with a medial malleolus and a lateral malleolus, an Achilles tendon having a n upper part and a lower part that projects outwardly with relation to the upper par t, the lower part merging with the heel, a plantar surface, medial and lateral sides and toes. The skate boot comprises an outer shell and a tendon guard affixed to the outer shell. The tendon guard is more flexible than the outer shell such that it allows backwards flexion of the ankle when the foot moves towards full extension.

Apparatus for determining a dorsiflexion angle of a surgical patient's foot relative to the corresponding leg during tendon surgery. The apparatus includes a leg member having a first support adapted for engaging at least one of a lateral malleolus and a medial malleolus of the patient, and a second support opposing the first support adapted for engaging another of the lateral malleolus and the medial malleolus of the patient. The apparatus further includes a foot member rotatably connected to the leg member for selectively rotating the foot member relative to the leg member about an axis defined by the first support and the second support of the leg member. The foot member has a metatarsal support adapted for engaging a predetermined point on at least one preselected metatarsal bone of the patient.

An orthopedic screw that includes a screw shaft having a predetermined length with a cannula extending through the length of the shaft. The shaft includes a first, relatively large outside diameter proximal segment; and a second, relatively small outside diameter threaded distal segment adjacent the proximal segment.

In an aspect, a leg support for a vehicle occupant is provided, and includes a leg support base and a leg engagement member. The leg support base is connected (or is connectable) to a center console of the vehicle. The leg engagement member may be integral with the leg support base or may be extendable from the leg support base. The leg engagement member is configured to engage the laterally outer face of a lower leg of a vehicle occupant. The leg engagement member has a leg engagement surface that has a lower edge and an upper edge. The lower edge is positioned to engage the lower leg of the vehicle occupant above the lateral malleolus of the fibula of the vehicle occupant. The upper edge is positioned to engage the lower leg of the vehicle occupant above a midpoint of the fibula and below the superior epiphysis of the fibula. The leg engagement member is positionable to support the lower leg of the vehicle occupant in such a way that the upper leg and the lower leg extend in a common plane that is substantially parallel to the sagittal plane of the vehicle occupant.

The invention provides a protective device for a foot ankle joint ligament, wherein the protective device includes an ankle brace, a foot arch pad, a plurality of fixing structures and ankle protection pads. The ankle brace is worn at a foot ankle joint of a patient; the foot arch pad is placed at the bottom of the ankle brace and at the foot sole position of the patient; the outer side of the ankle brace is wrapped with a group of fixing structures and the ankle protection pads, wherein the ankle protection pads are attached to a medial malleolus, lateral malleolus and foot contour of the patient respectively; with a biomechanics principle, and through the support of the foot arch, the stress state of the foot ankle bone joint and the ligament is improved, the foot ankle bone joint ligament is protected, and the secondary injury is reduced; the protrusion of bones is fully utilized, the position of the protective device is fixed, and slippage failure is avoided. The effects of increasing the ankle joint stability and preventing and treating sprain of ankle joint are achieved, and new treatment and protection measures are provided for vast patients with foot ankle joint ligamentousinjury and after foot ankle surgery.

The invention provides a customized shoe tree and a usage method. The customized shoe tree is composed of a customized shoe tree body and the usage method of the shoe tree body, wherein the customized shoe tree comprises a rear body, a front main body, a customized malleolus medialis body, a customized lateral malleolus body and a customized head-shaped body, and the usage method of the shoe tree comprises the steps that all the parts of the customized shoe tree are selected and matched according to the demand of a user, and shoes are made by using the matched customized shoe tree. The front main body is used as the center to combine the rear body, the customized malleolus medialis body, the customized lateral malleolus body and the customized head-shaped body according to the design demand of the customized shoe tree, a rear warpage, metatarsale girth, a head shape and a tree bottom curved surface are changed according to the actual requirement, the convenient and fast customized shoe tree which can be repeatedly used is achieved, accordingly the cost for customized design is reduced, and the efficiency of customized design is improved.

The invention belongs to the technical field of medical instruments and particularly relates to a pair of orthopedic shoes used after clinical cure of talipes equinovarus. The pair of orthopedic shoes used after clinical cure of talipes equinovarus is characterized in that shoe sole plates of the left shoe and the right shoe are both straight and are completely identical, the outer side of each shoe sole plate is thicker than the inner side of the shoe sole plate, each shoe sole plate is in the shape of a slope when people see the shoes from heel portions, an inner clamping plate is fixed into each vamp, located between the far end of the first metatarsal bone and the tail end of the hallex, of the front portion of each shoe, and an outer clamping plate is fixed into each vamp, located between the lateral malleolus and the back side of the calcaneus, of the rear portion of each shoe. According to the pair of orthopedic shoes used after clinical cure of talipes equinovarus, the feet are made to be on the abduction and valgus station in the orthopedic shoes, release of soft tissue can be further promoted, the valgus muscle strength balance in the feet can be further adjusted, blood is promoted to circulate smoothly, the muscle strength is increased, and the curative effect is further improved and strengthened; in addition, foot deformity relapse can be prevented.