medi protect.Walker boot Instrucciones De Uso página 4

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protect.
Walker boot
protect.AIR
Walker boot
protect.Walker
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Intended purpose
protect.Walker boot is lower leg brace.
The product is exclusively to be used for
the orthotic fitting of the foot and only
on unbroken skin or if any wounds have
been properly covered.
Indications
• Foot or toe injuries or surgeries
• Grade 2 or 3 ankle sprains
• Stable or internally fixed fractures of
the foot or ankle
Contraindications
Not intended for unstable fractures or for
fractures of the proximal tibia or fibula.
Information
• Do NOT remove the plastic sleeves
which are over the splints!
These plastic sleeves have to stay over
the splints during the first phase of the
adjustment process.
• The protect.Walker boot is not
designed or intended to be worn by
patients who weigh more than 110 kg.
How to fit
• Open all straps and remove the foam
inner shoe from the Walker.
• (Fig.1) Open the leg and foot part of
the inner shoe by loosening the hook
and loop fasteners. Ask the patient to
place his foot and lower leg into the
inner shoe.
• (Fig.2) Close the shoe and make sure
that the foam fits closely against the
patient's leg.
• (Fig. 3) Make sure that the plastic
sleeves over the splints still cover the
strip on the internal sides of the splints
in full. Ask the patient to place their
foot in the plastic shell between the
two stabilising bars. The foot should be
positioned so that both of the splints
are centred to the centre line on the
side of the leg.
• The splints can also be straightened for
an optimum fitting and to ensure a
close alignment on the sides of the calf.
Comfort padding can also be fitted on
the interior sides of the splints (at the
level of the ankle bone). These can be
moved or removed to adjust the
medial or lateral width between the
splint and the foot.
• (Fig. 4) If you have made sure that the
splints are correctly adjusted and
aligned (centre line on the sides of the
leg), you can remove the plastic sleeves
from the splints. The internal foam
shoe is now held in place by the hook
and loop strip which is situated on the
internal side of the stabilisation splints.
(Fig. 5) Close both of the forefoot
straps which hold the patient's foot in
place in the inner shoe. The straps
should be firmly in place but can also
be adjusted individually by the
opening and closing of the hook and
loop fastener.
Any unwanted extra material can also
be cut away.
• (Fig. 6) Now close the three straps
which hold the lower leg in position
between the splints.
Start with the strap which is nearest to
the ankle. The three straps should fit
tightly.
• Ask the patient to walk around in the
orthosis to make sure that the Walker
is sitting properly.