Improves gait and provides essential cast protection. Increased patient mobility and comfort are benefits of CastWalker Cast Sole, an innovative, effective option for use on walking casts.
Wearing a long or short leg walking cast is uncomfortable and awkward. Add a cast protection or ambulatory aid, and you add bulk, weight and cost to the cast. CastWalker provides the solution for walking cast wearers. CastWalker allows for a more normal heel-toe motion so wearing a cast becomes less of an impediment to an active lifestyle. The patients gait pattern improves because CastWalker allows for a more normal swing-through motion.
CastWalker also can be trimmed for a custom fit to any size foot. Applies quickly and easily with a special adhesive that sets in 45 seconds.
The CastWalker is a latex-free flexible and compressible device designed to protect the bottom of a walking cast, absorb impact during weight bearing, and improve a casted patients gait pattern. Use of the CastWalker prolongs the usefulness of the walking cast (prevents 40 percent breakdown rate), and increases the users comfort by absorbing impact and saving energy with an improved easier gait.
Instructions for Use:
The universal design fist most casts and can be used on either foot. Can be trimmed to fir a smaller foot.
1. Must wear impermeable rubber gloves (DO NOT use cotton gloves).
2. An additional fibreglass splint within the bottom of the cast is recommended.
3. Mold CastWalker to the bottom of the cast while the fibreglass hardens for 30 seconds.
Alignment guidlines include:
1. The high wall on the concave side is medial.
2. Place CastWalker as far forward as the patients arch will allow.
3. Trim any excess CastWalker material protruding distal to the cast with regular scissors.
4. Apply the entire tube of adhesive to the concave side of the CastWalker.
5. Spread the adhesive over the entire surface of the concave side of the CastWalker.
6. Press CastWalker firmly on the prepared bottom of the cast. The highest side must me medial and lightly distal to the highest point of the longitudinal arch of the foot.
7. Hold for 45 seconds to set the adhesive. Allow the patient to ambulate after 5 minutes.
