Abdominal postoperative binder and method of use

A medical binder for use on a patient, the patient having an iliac crest and an abdomen, comprising:

• a generally rectangular sheet of flexible, relatively inelastic material, said sheet having a tail end and a cut-out end, said tail end and said cut-out end being spaced apart by the length of said sheet,
• said sheet further having a right side curve-shaped cut-out area on a right edge of said sheet proximate said cut-out end of said sheet and a left side curve-shaped cut-out area on a left edge of said sheet spaced apart from said right side curve-shaped cut-out area by a width of said sheet;
• the shape of said right side curved-shaped cut-out and said left side curved-shaped cut-out being selected such that the binder closely fits the patient during use,
• said sheet further having its tail end split longitudinally into a right tail and a left tail by a cut through a portion of the length of the sheet, said right tail and said left tail each having a distal end and being sufficiently long and wide to allow said tails to pass over the iliac crest of the patient during use;
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• said right tail and said left tail having at their distal ends means for affixing the distal end of each of said right and left tails to the cut-out end of said sheet, wherein the binder is held in adjustable compression against the iliac crest and abdomen.