Anatomically shaped medical bandages
AssigneeBeiersdorf AG
InventorsStefan Bodenschatz, Thorsten Herzberg, Frank Doheny
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Abstract
Medical bandages which are adapted to the shape of the body part on which they are applied, and which are characterized in that the soft and adaptable material has been thermally deformed.
Claims11
A soft anatomically-shaped medical bandage, comprising a thermoplastically deformed material having a modulus of elasticity of less than 500 N/mm2 and a ball impression hardness of less than 35 N/mm2, wherein the bandage is formed into an anatomical shape by heating said bandage to the thermoplastic softening range of said material, forming the bandage into an anatomical shape, and cooling the material to retain said shape.
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