Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Splint or brace
Patent
1997-10-06
1999-07-20
Dvorak, Linda C. M.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Splint or brace
128878, 400715, A61F 500
Patent
active
059250070
ABSTRACT:
A carpal cuff having a lower bearing surface adapted to be worn on the forearm of a user to prevent repetitive stress injury during the operation of a computer mouse or keyboard. A padded arm support is made of a platform and a cap plate. The platform and cap plate secure a pair of arm straps therebetween and support a pair of rotatably attached bearing spreader plates. The bearing spreader plates each having acrylic bearing attached to which can be spread out from the arm support to a deployed position or stored beneath the arm support by rotating the position of the bearing support plates. When the carpal cuff is attached through the use of the arm straps to the user, the forearm of the user is fixed in a correct and neutral position to transfer weighting of the elbows to the carpal cuff to prevent stress of the wrist and carpal tunnel of the user. The use of the bearing plates allow the user to move the computer mouse without having to lift his arm and the carpal cuff. The use of hook and loop attached straps allow the device to easily be fitted to any user and reduce the likelihood of interference with the circulation or comfort of the user.
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Copies of Magazine Advertizements, Jul. '97 Entitled "CTS" and "Wrist Wrap-Up".
Blackmon Robert N.
Dvorak Linda C. M.
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