- Promotes a smooth and efficient pattern of walking
- Enhances mobility and functional activities
- Protects the entire foot and ankle structures
- Reduces loading and shearing forces when total contact casting is not appropriate
- Soft lining materials store energy and dampen impact forces
- Distributes walking pressures to all parts of the foot and lower leg
- Promotes healing and helps to prevent re-ulceration secondary to Charcot joint changes and fractures
Crow Walker
Neuropathic AFO
Key Features
- Establishes plantigrade alignment of deformed foot and ankle structures
- Bivalved, overlap design restricts or limits motion at the foot and ankle
- Lined with pressure and shear–dissipating materials
- Low profile rocker sole reduces load bearing forces to the metatarsal heads
- Prosthetic loading characteristics can be used to further reduce load bearing through the affected structures—can be fabricated with a “PTB” proximal section
- Custom insole allows relief and build-up to pressure-sensitive and pressure-tolerant areas of the foot
- Foot is supported deep within the orthosis to obtain maximum alignment, support and control
Used for the prevention and management of pressure ulcers caused by ischemia, direct trauma and/or repetitive stress often found in persons with:
- Chronic illness
- Diabetes mellitus
- Charcot joints
- Limited mobility
- Decreased sensation and/or paralysis
- Advanced age
