A protective boot adapted to be worn by individuals when lying in a reclining position. The boot has leg and forefoot portions that provide foot and lower leg support for a wearer while suspending the wearer's heel. The boot may include low-friction materials at an exterior surface of its leg and forefoot portions and at a continuous rim separating the exterior surface from an interior surface of the body, in which case the boot also preferably includes a system for adjustably closing an anterior opening in the forefoot portion by drawing lateral regions of the forefoot portion inward and together. The boot may additionally or alternatively include an L-shaped backplate having portions located at the leg and forefoot portions of the body and adapted to inhibit buckling of the boot within the leg and forefoot portions.

Proposed is a health-promoting functional shoe having a function of stimulating a solar plexus point. The functional shoe includes un upper, a middle sole disposed on a bottom surface of the upper, an outsole disposed on a bottom surface of the middle sole, a recess recessed downward in an area corresponding to a sole of a forefoot of a wearer or a sole of a hindfoot of the wearer, or both, on an upper surface of the middle sole, a vibration unit disposed to be inserted into the recess, and an acupressure unit including receiving space portions formed to be concave downward while being disposed in a form surrounding the vibration unit on the upper surface of the middle sole, and elastic springs each fitted into individual receiving space portions.

An insole having, a base layer, a top layer fixedly secured to the base layer, a middle layer comprised of the base layer and the top layer positioned between the base layer and the top layer, a pressure projection extending upwardly from within the middle layer and extending past an upper surface of the upper layer, the projection including a disc fixedly secured within the middle layer, an annular ring fixedly secured atop the disc, a circular metal insert fixedly secured atop the disc within the annular ring, the circular metal insert having a horseshoe-shaped aperture therein. The insole may also include projections either positioned proximate an inside arch and/or positioned proximate an outside arch. The insole may also comprise a projection positioned proximate to a midfoot region.

Systems and methods are disclosed including a tri-layer orthotic system having a heel portion and a forefoot portion to support respective heel and forefoot portions of a foot through at least a portion of a gait cycle. The tri-layer orthotic system can include an upper layer suspended over a mid-layer and a base layer to create a rear spring section, a mid-spring section, and a front spring section. A distal toe portion of the mid-layer can form the forefoot portion of the tri-layer orthotic system and a heel upper layer portion of the upper layer can form the heel portion of tri-layer orthotic system.

A dual-hardness outsole includes a front section, a middle section, and a rear section, at least the middle section of the outsole including a wedge having a bottom surface which extends below another bottom surface of at least one of the front and rear sections such that the wedge carries more weight than the other bottom surface. The outsole comprises a hard portion and a soft portion that are secured to each other and together form the wedge, a cross-sectional profile of the hard and soft density portions being such that a center portion of the wedge is softer than opposite lateral portions thereof.

A method includes receiving monitoring data from at least one sensing device coupled to a subject and analyzing the monitoring data to identify one or more physiologic parameters of the subject. The method also includes providing signaling to at least one stimulating device in response to the identified physiologic parameters, the signaling comprising instructions to apply a stimulus to the subject. The method further includes receiving additional monitoring data from the at least one sensing device, analyzing the additional monitoring data to identify one or more changes in the one or more physiologic parameters of the subject after application of the stimulus to the subject, and providing additional signaling to the at least one stimulating device, the additional signaling comprising instructions to modify the stimulus applied to the subject based on the identified changes in the one or more physiologic parameters.

Shoe which has a band-like device which extends from the upper shaft end to the shoe base on one inner side of the shoe and extends from the shoe base in the direction of the upper shaft end on the opposite inner side of the shoe, wherein the band-like device is designed to exert pressure on a foot arranged in the shoe.

Shoe which has a band-like device which extends from the upper shaft end to the shoe base on one inner side of the shoe and extends from the shoe base in the direction of the upper shaft end on the opposite inner side of the shoe, wherein the band-like device is designed to exert pressure on a foot arranged in the shoe.

The present invention relates to a method for generating control data for controlling a shoe part production machine for making shoes or elements for optimizing traction properties of the shoe by customizing modules to be mounted on the sole for a specific user, said method comprising the steps of: receiving user profile data describing the characteristics of the user where the user profile data comprise use data and test data, receiving a user selection identifying a selected shoe from a number of shoe models or a selected element influencing the property of a shoe, generating modified template data by modifying a shoe sole template corresponding to the selected shoe model or by modifying an element influencing the properties corresponding to the selected element, said modifications being performed based on said received user profile data, generating control data based on said modified template data.

The present invention regards a sole for shoes including an upper surface, in use facing the user, a lower surface, in use facing the ground or the resting surface, and a thickness, wherein the thickness corresponds to a distance between the upper surface and the lower surface, wherein the sole includes at least one signaling means. Such at least one signaling means includes at least one vibrating motor, capable of vibrating inside such sole and/or at least one light device and the sole includes means for receiving-processing a control signal (sc) intended, in use, to receive and process such control signal (sc) and to emit in reply an activation-deactivation signal (S) towards such at least one signaling means.