Brace apparatus
OwnerAlvin J. Marxinventor
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Abstract
An improved wrist brace maintains the wrist extended and slightly ulnar deviated (so called position of function), providing support and impact counterforce bracing. The brace is utilized for play by sufferers of "tennis elbow" (tendonitis of the conjoined tendon of the extensor communis and extensor carpi radialis brevis at the insertion into the lateral epicondyl of the humerus), reduced subluxation of the wrist ("sprain"), and/or rheumatoid arthritis of the wrist. The brace includes a semirigid, fluid-passing (e.g., woven) semiflexible outer backer layer, and an inner porous layer, e.g., and open pore plastic. Particular forms of buckle and strapping are secured at opposite ends of the elongated backer-foam laminate to secure the brace in place, as by hook and eye type cooperating fastener strips.
Claims8
A brace adapted for application over a subject's wrist comprising an elongated semi-flexible curved backer sheet having a plurality of perspiration eliminating intersticies therein, a porous perspiration passing inner sheet disposed about and secured to the inner surface of said backer means, said semi-flexible backer means being curved in a generally rounded fashion, strap means attached to said semi-flexible curved backer sheet-inner sheet laminate about one end thereof, buckle means affixed to said semi-flexible backer sheet-inner sheet laminate about the other end thereof, said buckle means being adapted to receive the other end of said strap means, and brace securing means comprising mating first and second cooperating portions, said first portion of said mating means being affixed to the outer surface of said strap about its said other end and the second portion of said fastening means being secured to the outer surface of said semi-flexible backer sheet.
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