Back support garment apparatus
OwnerJames Arsenault, Paul Iskyan +1inventors
InventorsJames Arsenault, Paul Iskyan, Vijay Vad
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Abstract
A one-piece back support apparatus comprises a belt portion being configured to provide back and abdominal support encircling a wearer's waist and a compression pants portion. The belt portion has a front portion, a back portion, a top portion, a bottom portion and an inner surface. The compression pants portion secured to the belt is configured to provide support for the wearer's pelvis, legs, and groin area. The inner surface of the belt has one or more pack support portions with slots for receiving one or more gel packs so as to maintain contact between the gel packs and the wearer's back. Slots in the belt portion may accommodate vertically extending inserts of rigid plastic to reinforce the belt portion over the lumbar region of the wearer.
Claims21
A back support garment for a wearer, said garment comprising:
- a compression pants portion being configured to provide support for the wearer's pelvis, legs, and groin area;
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- a belt portion having a rear portion attached fixedly to and extending upwardly from the compression pants portion;
- said belt portion being configured to support a lumbar region and an abdominal area of the wearer, the belt portion having left and right co-acting belt-securement portions each extending from respective sides of the rear portion around the wearer's waist and securingly engaging with each other above the compression pants portion and in front of the wearer's abdominal area without intervening material of the back support garment, the rear portion being configured to overlay and support the lumbar region of the wearer when the belt is secured about the waist of the user;
- said rear portion including a portion extending downwardly below the upper end of the compression pants portion over the lumbar region, and said belt portion being attached to said pants portion such that the rear portion of the belt portion aligns with and provides support over the lumbar region of the wearer.
A back support garment for a wearer, said garment comprising:
- a compression pants portion being configured to provide support for the wearer's pelvis, legs, and groin area;
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- a belt portion attached fixedly to and extending upwardly from the compression pants portion;
- said belt portion being configured to support a lumbar and an abdominal area of the wearer, and including a rear portion configured to overlay and support the lumbar region of the wearer;
- said belt portion being attached to said pants portion so as to align the rear portion with the lumbar region of the wearer;
- a pack support structure connected with the rear portion of the belt portion and supporting therein a hot or cold pack adjacent to the lumbar region of the wearer inward of an inner surface of the rear portion of said belt portion;
- wherein said back support garment aligns the pack support portion with the lumbar region of the wearer and maintains temperature transferring contact between an inner surface of the pack support structure adjacent said hot or cold pack and the wearer's lumbar region during twisting or bending movement of the wearer,
- wherein the pack support structure provides a layer of mesh between the hot or cold pack and the lumbar region of the wearer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.