Compression gauge for therapeutic compression garments
AssigneeFarrow Innovations LLC
InventorsWade P. Farrow, Barry L. Creighton
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for treating edema is disclosed. The method may include obtaining a compression garment comprising material having an end stretch. At least one gauge may be applied to the material. The compression garment may be applied to a patient. During the applying, the material may be stretched until the at least one gauge indicates that a proper amount of stretch has been reached. The at least one gauge may be tuned so that the material arrives at or near end stretch at substantially the same time that the at least one gauge indicates that the proper amount of stretch has been reached.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- (a) a compression garment comprised at least in part of an elastic material forming a plurality of bands wrappable around a limb of a patient;
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- (b) at least one electronic gauge applied to the compression garment and adapted to indicate a predetermined amount of stretch that has been applied to the elastic material in position on the limb of the patient and/or adapted to indicate a predetermined level of compression being applied to the limb of the patient by the elastic material.
A system comprising:
- (a) a compression garment comprised at least in part of an elastic material forming a sheet wrappable around a limb of a patient;
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- (b) at least one electronic gauge applied to the compression garment and adapted a predetermined amount of stretch that has been applied to the elastic material in position on the limb of the patient and/or adapted to indicate a predetermined level of compression being applied to the limb of the patient by the elastic material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.