Patent ID: 7951103

Claim:
An orthopedic retractor shaped to be inserted into an interdigital space of a foot, the retractor comprising two complementary parts made of a polymer gel, each part comprising a concave face adapted to cooperate with an edge of an adjacent toe of the foot, such that the retractor is self-maintained in the interdigital space without an additional securing means, and a polymer gel flat face which is assembled or to be assembled to the polymer gel flat face of the other part, such that together the two parts form the retractor, and such that the polymer gel flat faces once assembled form a polymer gel-to-polymer gel junction resistant to shearing forces while remaining separable from each other; wherein each part comprises the concave face both when the retractor is in a use position inserted into an interdigital space of a foot and when the retractor is in a non-use position not inserted into an interdigital space of a foot.