Wound and therapy compress and dressing
AssigneeBruder Healthcare Company, LLC
InventorsMark H. Bruder, Aaron N. Ingram
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Abstract
A method of providing moisture therapy to a subject by applying a moist therapy compress against a treated body portion. The moist therapy compress includes a fluid-permeable shell, a flexible backing fastened to the shell to define an enclosure, and silver-retaining hydrophilic zeolite fill granules loosely contained within the enclosure. The therapy compress is exposed to a source of moisture to cause absorption of water into the silver-retaining hydrophilic zeolite, and the moisture is delivered from the silver-retaining hydrophilic zeolite through the fluid permeable shell to the treated body portion.
Claims8
A method of providing moisture therapy to a subject, said method comprising:
- providing a therapy compress comprising a fluid-permeable shell, a flexible backing fastened to the shell to define at least one enclosure therebetween, and a plurality of fill granules loosely contained within the at least one enclosure, the fill granules comprising a silver-retaining hydrophilic zeolite;
- exposing the therapy compress to a source of moisture to cause absorption of water into the silver-retaining hydrophilic zeolite;
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- applying the moist therapy compress to the subject with the fluid permeable shell against a treated body portion of the subject to deliver moisture from the silver-retaining hydrophilic zeolite through the fluid permeable shell to the treated body portion of the subject.
A method of providing heat therapy to a subject, said method comprising:
- providing a therapy compress comprising a fluid-permeable shell, a flexible backing fastened to the shell to define at least one enclosure therebetween, and a plurality of fill granules loosely contained within the at least one enclosure, the fill granules comprising a silver-retaining hydrophilic zeolite;
- heating the therapy compress;
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- applying the heated therapy compress to the subject with the fluid permeable shell against a treated body portion of the subject to deliver heat treatment to the treated body portion of the subject.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.