How to replace Tensors on the Step Smart Brace

Video Transcript

Hi Ian here from Insightful Products. Welcome back to Foot of the Week.

On week 12 we talked about the calf section and how sometimes you have to make an angular adjustment and in that week we talked about the reasons for the need to make that adjustment. But we really didn’t talk about how to change out the longer tensor.

We’re going to replace the shorter tensor with a longer one because this patient here has a problem where the calf section is dislocating medially or on the inside of his leg. So by putting a longer tensor on the inside we kick that calf section over a little bit to the lateral.

What we need is some Lock-Tite. We us purple, but blue is acceptable, some super glue, any brand name will do, a longer tensor, a 2 mm allen, and a 2.5 mm allen. As you can see this is longer but not by a lot but just enough to give us just the angular change that we need.

First, let’s get the I Strap out of the way. Now this is glued in place but it can be peeled up relativity easily. So you can see under this pad that we have the two tensors and we have these back nuts and on this side we have the screws. So we need to take this 2.5 mm wrench and secure the back nut because if we don’t there’s a chance that when we unscrew this it will spin uncontrollably.

Alright so now we got to pop out that shorter tensor and the shorter tensors has the two end pieces, these little kind of bolt-like things. And this is the shorter one, so we’re going to replace it with the longer one. The two shorter ones are automatically installed with the Step Smart Brace, and the longer one comes in your bumper kit.

The screw just needs a little bit of Lock-Tite, hardly any at all. If I don’t secure this back nut then it will just spin and I won’t get it tight. It doesn’t have to be super tight. Now we’re left with this problem here. We just want to stick this back down. I went to the hardware store and got this super glue. You don’t want to use too much super glue. Put a spot here and here. I wouldn’t put it any where around these screws. So just press that down with a little bit of pressure.

So it looks like we finished the job. Got the I-Strap there. We have to re install our bumpers and there you have it! That’s it for Foot of the Week. We’ll see you next week.