Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Splint or brace
Patent
1989-07-05
1992-09-15
Hafer, Robert A.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Splint or brace
602 5, 128846, A61F 504
Patent
active
051472830
ABSTRACT:
A finger attachment structure and fabrication method for connection to a passive motion machine or the like in the rehabilitation and therapy of the hand and fingers is described which comprises the steps of heating a sheet of low temperature formable plastic sized to enclose a selected plurality of fingers, folding an edge of the sheet over the selected fingers and carefully forming the sheet around individual fingers to produce a body member including a plurality of spaced cavities receiving and individually enclosing and separating the ends of the fingers to a preselected extent, cooling the body member to harden the plastic in the formed shape of the body member and attaching one or more loop members to the outer surface of the body member atop the finger cavities for receiving a bar member for connection to a machine for providing passive motion to the plurality of fingers.
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Hafer Robert A.
Rimell Sam
Scearce Bobby D.
Singer Donald J.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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