Ankle brace

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1995-12-07

1997-05-20

Dvorak, Linda C.

Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage

Orthopedic bandage

Splint or brace

602 7, 602 23, A61F 500

Patent

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056307926

ABSTRACT:
An ankle brace comprising a pair of elongated substantially compliant and substantially inextensible body members designed to reside generally vertically along the opposite sides of the ankle. The body members are connected to one another by a flexible strap that passes beneath the arch of the foot and generally vertically upwardly along opposite sides of the foot where the opposite free ends of the strap are releasably anchored to respective ones of the outer surfaces of the body members. The body members are mirror images of one another and are secured to the ankle as by various strapping. On the outer surface of each body member there is provided a malleable elongated stay which extends between the top and bottom of the body member. This stay is anchored to the body member at spaced apart locations along its length such that bending of the stay effects alteration of the cupping of the body member in the malleolus area thereof.

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