Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Splint or brace
Patent
1997-03-24
1999-01-12
Dvorak, Linda C.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Splint or brace
36120, A61F 500
Patent
active
058579877
ABSTRACT:
The device for the ensheathing fixation of extremities, more particularly for the treatment of extremity fractures of the lower leg and thigh, is comprised of a shell-like member (10) of one shell portion or of two reciprocally tightenable L-shaped shell portions (20, 30) possessing an approximately semi-circular cross-section which surround the extremity to be ensheathed, in which, between the shell portions (20, 30) and the extremity, at least one sleeve-like padding is provided whose contents can be evacuated, in whose interior located between the two padding walls, a large number of filling material particles which are movable relative to each other, are provided, while the wall areas of the shell-like member (10) are, at least in part, constructed so as to be latticed and/or ribbed (FIG. 2).
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Dvorak Linda C.
Kueffner Friedrich
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