Patent ID: 8226586

Claim:
A negative pressure, compression therapy device comprising: A) a heel care boot having (i) an inflatable member forming a pressure chamber and within the pressure chamber is a fluid, the inflatable member having an exterior surface, an interior surface, and a portion of the interior surface contacts a part of the patient's leg, foot and/or ankle; and (ii) a fastening device for releasably securing the heel care boot to the patient; and (iii) a valve that receives a conduit that directs the fluid from a pressurized source to the pressure chamber while positioned on the patient's body to alter the positive pressure applied to the patient's foot, the heel care boot adapted to decrease the formation of and facilitate the healing of pressure sores; B) a pressure bag having an opening that receives the patient's foot and the heel care boot; C) a vacuum system generates a modulatable negative pressure in the pressure bag, the negative pressure in the pressure bag is sufficient to cause the patient's veins to vasodilate and the negative pressure modulates to cause the fluid in the heel care boot to (a) expand when the negative pressure is decreased and (b) contract when the negative pressure is increased which causes the heel care boot to provide compression therapy to the patient; D) a soft seal positioned at the disposable pressure bag's opening to maintain the pressure in the bag.