Lumbosacral belt
OwnerTheodore J. Zablotsky, Charles Zablotsky +2inventors
InventorsTheodore J. Zablotsky, Charles Zablotsky, Jerome M. True, Paul E. Gallo
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Abstract
An air inflatable belt worn by a person for support in the lumbar and sacral regions of the body has an inner wall, which faces the body of the person, provided with one or more permanent magnet arrangements producing magnetic fields directed toward the person's body. The permanent magnet arrangements may be provided by one or more flexible magnetic sheets received in a pocket or pockets on the inner wall of the belt, or by permanent magnet particles embedded in the inner wall of the belt and magnetized to provide desired magnetic field patterns. The belt includes an inflatable bladder or bladders which may be removably supported on the belt.
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A lumbar support belt having opposite ends for releasably securing said belt about a person's body, inflatable bladder means supported between said opposite ends, said belt including inner wall means overlying said bladder means and facing the body of a person wearing said belt, and means providing said inner wall means with permanent magnet means producing magnetic field lines directed outwardly from said inner wall means toward said person's body, said bladder means being inflatable for exerting pressure against said magnet means to conform said inner wall means and said permanent magnet means to the contour of said body.
A lumbar support belt having opposite ends for releasably securing said belt about a person's body, inflatable bladder means supported between said opposite ends, said belt including inner wall means overlying said bladder means and facing the body of a person wearing said belt, means providing said inner wall means with flexible magnet means for producing magnetic field lines directed outwardly from said inner wall means toward said person's body, and means for varying the pressure exerted by said bladder means on said flexible magnet means and said body.
A lumbar support belt having opposite ends for releasably securing said belt about a person's body, a plurality of inflatable bladder means, each of said bladder means independently removably supported within said belt, said belt including inner wall means overlying said bladder means and facing the body of a person wearing said belt, flexible magnet means, pocket means on said inner wall means for said flexible magnetic means, and valve means connected to each of said bladder means for independently controlling pressure exerted by each said bladder means on said flexible magnetic means.
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