Patent ID: 8920354
Filing Date: 2014-12-30
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. An adjustable and controllable device for exerting a force on an upper external surface of a nail plate, wherein the device is adapted for attaching on the upper external surface of the nail plate only inside of the boundaries thereof, the device comprising: a releasing portion adapted to he attached to the upper external surface of the nail plate on a region in the vicinity of an ingrowth of the nail plate; an adjustable portion based outside the region in the vicinity of the ingrowth of the nail plate, adapted to exert the force directed upwardly from the region in the vicinity of the ingrowth of the nail plate in a generally perpendicular orientation relative to the upper external surface so as to elevate the nail plate, and a shoe; wherein said releasing portion is a first magnet and said adjustable portion is a second magnet wherein the force comprises magnetic attraction exists between said first magnet and said second magnet, and wherein said second magnet is within said shoe.