Cervical orthosis
AssigneeNakamura Brace Co., Ltd.
InventorsToshiro Nakamura, Hidenaga Kawai
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Abstract
A cervical orthosis to be wound onto the neck of user around the cervical vertebrae part and retained to support and fix the cervical vertebrae wherein almost the whole of at least the surface adjoining to the neck is provided with a number of ups and downs and the main body is made of silicone rubber, and a method of mounting a plane fastener onto the surface of a plate-like body made of silicone rubber used in the cervical orthoses or the like.
Claims4
A cervical orthosis arranged to be applied around the neck of a user corresponding to cervical vertebrae and retained thereat for supporting and fixing the same, having a main body of non-expanded silicone rubber, provided with a number of convex projections in the form of a number of sections of spheres, at almost the whole of at least the surface closely adjoining to the neck.
A method of mounting a plane fastener on a body made of silicone rubber wherein the body and the plane fastener are each provided with a plurality of through bores, which through bores are aligned when the plane fastener is placed in position on the body, and, after placing the plane fasteners in position on the body, melted silicone is applied in the aligned through bores to be solidified in the form of rivets, or silicone rubber in a shape having a projecting part nail heads in place of the melted silicone is inserted into the aligned through bores to be melted at one of the projecting parts and solidified again to provide or re-form the projecting part.
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