Knee splint
OwnerRobert L. Cornueinventor
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Abstract
An adjustable splint for a human knee comprising upper and lower leg engaging portions and a foot engaging portion. With a knee injury, it is important to splint the knee in the position in which it is found because changing the position can damage the blood vessels and nerves that pass through the knee. Therefore, the splint has hinged connections between its upper and lower leg engaging portions and between its lower leg and foot engaging portions so that its angular position can conform to that of the leg and foot. The upper and lower leg engaging portions of the splint each have a length adjustment, and the splint includes means for releasably securing its upper and lower portions in the required position of angular adjustment.
Claims1
An adjustable knee splint including:
- an upper leg engaging portion comprising a first pair of overlapping rigid plate members, and means for adjusting the extent of overlap of said first pair of plate members to adjust the overall length of said upper leg engaging portion;
- a lower leg engaging portion comprising a second pair of overlapping rigid plate members and means for adjusting the extent of overlap of said second pair of plate members to adjust the overall length of said lower leg engaging portion;
- a foot engaging portion hingedly connected to one end of said lower leg engaging portion;
- a flexible, elastic sheet member connecting the other end of said lower leg engaging portion with one end of said upper leg engaging portion to separate the connected ends of said leg engaging portion, said sheet member having a non-metallic leg engaging surface;
- connecting means for interconnecting said upper and lower leg engaging portions, said connecting means comprising pairs of slide members, each pair of slide members including first and second elongated, longitudinally slotted overlapping slide members connected respectively at one end to said upper and lower leg engaging portions, and releasable fastening means extending through the slots of the respective pairs of slide members to interconnect the other ends of slide members, said other ends being connected only to each other;
- and straps connected to said upper and lower leg engaging portions and to said foot engaging portion, respectively, for securing a person's leg and foot to said splint.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.