ANKLE ORTHOSES

• Mild to moderate spasticity
• Partial foot amputations
• Footdrop with moderate involvement – mild to severe foot drop accompanied with mild to moderate Impaired knee control

The ToeOFF® carbon composite AFO has proven itself invaluable for more than ten years in helping manage adult gait deficits, including those with some tone involvement. Now you can extend many of the benefits of this design concept to manage the lower extremity functional challenges of this younger population.

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• Allows more medial, lateral and rotational ankle movement to provide the opportunity for functional, or potentially functional, muscles, tendons, and ligaments to function and strengthen.

Ypsilon is recommended for patients with:

• Weak dorsi-flexors
• Peroneal nerve injury
• No or mild spasticity
• Stable ankle
• Sensory Nerve Injury

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• Developed primarily for bilateral patients and those with more involved pathology
• The extra stability will improve both balance and posture and give the wearer greater security, especially individuals with weak quadriceps muscles
• Usually the preferred orthosis to be used in conjunction with a prosthetic socket and toe filler for management of partial foot amputations

BlueRocker is recommended for patients with:

• Footdrop with multiple involvement – severe ankle instability, and/ or proximal neuro-muscular weakness/deficits
• Limb proprioception deficit
• Severe spasticity
• Reduced knee and hip control

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Not only are there the usual ground reaction forces involved in gait biomechanics, but also top-down spasticity driven forces exacerbate gait deviations and deformities. Now, KiddieGAIT offers innovative options that have never been available for AFO management of these challenges. Functional environments can be created that supplement gait function instead of immobilizing

• Designed to allow integration of your custom foot orthotic to help control ground-up forces
• Lateral strut can also serve as a base to affix a T-Strap to control excessive eversion at the ankle
• Anterior shell to assist in management of proximal deficits by helping to overcome either knee hyperextension or crouched gait

Indications

• Footdrop
• Gait deviation secondary to proprioceptive deficit (either unstable or low-tone gait)
• Toe-walker with no midfoot collapse
• Low Tone Crouch Gait
• Spina Bifida
• Cerebral Palsy
• Muscular Dystrophy

Contra-indications

• Lacking ROM towards dorsiflexion (need at least 5° dorsiflexion past neutral)
• Very rigid foot structure
• Quadriceps spasticity Fixed postural Genu Valgumor Genu Varum
• Fixed postural PesValgus or PesVarus

Limitations

• Knee hyperextension

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