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A mobile orthopedic device to support a disabled leg of a standing patient while the leg is bent at the knee, especially as when partially amputated or encased in a cast or support device. A base having peripheral caster wheels supports a medial upstanding support shaft that is adjustable for height

A mobile orthopedic device to support a disabled leg of a standing patient while the leg is bent at the knee, especially as when partially amputated or encased in a cast or support device. A base having peripheral caster wheels supports a medial upstanding support shaft that is adjustable for height. The upper portion of the support shaft carries a horizontal support with padded upper surface configured to cradle the knee and adjacent lower leg of a patient. A handlebar assembly extends upwardly from the forward end of the horizontal support to aid user support, steerage and maneuvering of the device. A medial, adjustably depending foot optionally aids positional maintenance of the support on a supporting surface. A first species provides a releasable, adjustably positionable strap and knee pad that are carried on the upper surface of the horizontal support to aid positional maintenance of a supported leg to prevent overturning of the support in a forward direction. A second species provides a fixedly mounted caster wheel to aid steerage in a forward direction.

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A wheeled orthopedic support for a lower disabled leg bent at the knee, to allow user locomotion comprising in combination: a wheeled base having a central hub defining a vertically oriented medial channel and supported by plural radially extending wheel legs having depending caster wheels with vert

A wheeled orthopedic support for a lower disabled leg bent at the knee, to allow user locomotion comprising in combination: a wheeled base having a central hub defining a vertically oriented medial channel and supported by plural radially extending wheel legs having depending caster wheels with vertical mounting shafts in their outer portions with at least one caster wheel being irrotatable about its vertical mounting shaft to aid steerage and said hub having means for fastening a support shaft in vertically adjustable relationship; a support shaft carried in the medial channel of the hub in a vertically upstanding orientation, said support shaft carrying in its upper portion a fastening plate with means to interconnect a horizontal support on the fastening plate; an elonagate, horizontal support carried on the fastening plate of the support shaft, said horizontal support having a lower rigid base defining a medial indentation extending parallel its longer dimension to receive the knee portion of a bent leg of a user in a conformable fit, and supporting a resiliently deformable padding element thereabove with peripheral covering extending about the rigid base and padding element; a fastening strap with an enlarged medial knee pad to limit the forward extension of a supported knee portion of a lower leg of a user, said fastening strap being releasably and adjustably attachable to the medial portion of each opposed longer side of the horizontal support to extend thereof; and handlebar assembly having a compound support extending vertically upwardly from structural support at the medial portion of a shorter forward side of the horizontal support, said support having means for adjustment of vertical extension and carrying in its upper portion an elongate handlebar.