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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2019
Djo, Llc, Vista, CA (US);
Drew R. Verkade, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Jeremy Nathanson, San Clemente, CA (US);
David Rodwell Walters, III, Columbia, SC (US);
DJO, LLC, Vista, CA (US);
Abstract
An ankle brace includes a semi-rigid ankle cuff and a semi-rigid foot bed coupled to the semi-rigid ankle cuff. The semi-rigid ankle cuff includes a calf-supporting portion configured to extend around a lower calf of a wearer, and medial and lateral uprights extending generally downward from respective medial and lateral sides of the calf-supporting portion. The semi-rigid foot bed includes a foot plate including a posterior medial edge, a posterior lateral edge and is contoured to underlie at least a portion of a foot of the wearer. The semi-rigid foot bed includes medial and lateral wings extending generally upward from respective posterior medial and lateral edges of the foot plate, medial and lateral bend regions respectively joining the medial and lateral wings to the foot plate. Each of the medial bend region and the lateral bend region are more flexible than the foot plate.