Post operation mastectomy bra
AssigneeThree Strands Recovery Wear Corporation
InventorLeah Brooke Wyrick
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Abstract
A wearable garment for recovery of a wearer after the wearer has undergone a surgical procedure, the wearable garment having an outer shell including at least a back panel and two front panels that, when the wearable garment is worn about a wearer, have outer edges that are adjacent to each other, a fastening system for securing the outer edges of the front panels together, thereby securing the wearable garment about the wearer, a compression region that provides a compressive force about the wearer; straps that hold the wearable garment about the wearer, and a tubing pocket attached to an inner surface of a respective one of the front panels for holding a drain tube in a coiled configuration against the wearer.
Claims18
A wearable garment for recovery of a wearer after the wearer has undergone a surgical procedure, the wearable garment comprising:
- an outer shell comprising at least a back panel and two front panels that, when the wearable garment is worn about the wearer, have outer edges at each of the two front panels that are adjacent to each other;
- a fastening system configured to secure the outer edges of the front panels together, thereby securing the wearable garment about the wearer;
- a compression region configured to provide a compressive force about the wearer wherein the compression region comprises a compression band comprising an elastomeric material, the compression band being at a bottom edge of the outer shell and wherein the compression band further comprises an attachment surface attached on an external surface of the compression band and an attachment flap pivotably attached to the external surface of the compression band on the back panel portion of the compression band and spaced apart from the attachment surface along a circumference of the compression band;
- straps that are configured to hold the wearable garment about the wearer;
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- a tubing pocket attached to an inner surface of a respective one of the front panels configured to hold a drain tube in a coiled configuration against the wearer.
A wearable garment for recovery of a wearer after the wearer has undergone a surgical procedure, the wearable garment comprising:
- an outer shell comprising at least a back panel and two front panels that, when the wearable garment is worn about the wearer, have outer edges at each of the two front panels that are adjacent to each other;
- a fastening system configured to secure the outer edges of the front panels together, thereby securing the wearable garment about the wearer;
- a compression region configured to provide a compressive force about the wearer and comprising:
- a compression band made of an elastomeric material, the compression band being at a bottom edge of the outer shell;
- an attachment surface attached on an external surface of the compression band;
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- an attachment flap pivotably attached to the external surface of the compression band on the back panel portion of the compression band and spaced apart from the attachment surface along a circumference of the compression band,
- wherein the attachment flap is configured such that, when pulled towards the attachment surface, an effective length of the compression band is decreased, thereby increasing a magnitude of the compression force provided at the compression region;
- straps that are configured to hold the wearable garment onto the wearer;
- a tubing pocket attached to an inner surface of a respective one of the front panels configured to hold a drain tube in a coiled configuration against the wearer;
- a drain pocket removably attached to the outer shell at the compression band under each of the two front panels configured to hold a drainage device connected to a first end of the drain tube, wherein the drainage device is configured to suction fluid from a surgical site of the wearer through the drain tube;
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- a slot formed through the respective one of the front panels, wherein the slot is configured such that the drain tube can pass through the slot, from an interior of the wearable garment to an exterior of the wearable garment, to allow fluid from the surgical site to be transported via the drain tube to the drainage device configured to store fluid from the surgical site in the drain pocket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.