Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Splint or brace
Patent
1991-09-03
1993-04-27
Apley, Richard J.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Splint or brace
602 18, 128 971, A61F 500
Patent
active
052058131
ABSTRACT:
A cephalic and cervical support apparatus for immobilization and traction of the cervical rachis including a semirigid, flexible unitary shell having a facial opening and upper, middle and lower sections. The upper section substantially conforms to a wearer's head and has a forehead strap which extends in a substantially horizontal direction across the wearer's forehead. The middle section substantially conforms to a wearer's neck area, encircling the neck area, and having a division in the shell in the submandibular region. The lower section substantially conforms to the wearer's upper shoulder, back and chest area, and has a division connected to the division in the middle section which allows the shell to be opened for installation on a wearer. The division can be releasably closed by a fastening device, and the support apparatus can be held on a wearer by engagement of a pair of arm straps. A structural combination of three curves, the convex curve formed by the joining of the three sections, the downwards facing lower concave curve which conforms to the wearer's shoulders and the middle concave curve conforming to the wearer's neck, results in greater rigidity of the shell even with the use of a relatively lightweight structural material.
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Apley Richard J.
Beehner John A.
Dvorak Linda C. M.
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