TEXTILE DROP FOOT ORTHOSIS
Characteristics
Comfortable. Allows the adequate flexibility to the foot in the stance phase of gait.
Effects
Support, compression and stabilization.
Indications
Drop foot produced by neurologic diseases. Ankle instability
• Available as an accessory (barefoot support), not included with the product, to be ordered separately.
• Consists of two separated pieces, a supra-malleolar strap over the ankles and a non-slip support union to fix between the tongue and
shoelaces by means of a central anchorage hook type. Both parts are linked by an elastic for the traction, adjustable, for a major or minor
flexion.
• On back part of the strap, there is an inner gel pad for a higher comfort on the Achilles tendon, and the instep area is padded to
avoid frictions and undesired compressions.
• Discrete, flexible, it takes no space on the shoe, being easy to fit. To be used with lacing shoe.
• It has the function to produce dorsal flexion on the take-off phase of gait, indicated in flaccid palsy.
