Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Bandage structure – Support covering
Patent
1995-10-06
1996-12-17
Apley, Richard J.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Bandage structure
Support covering
602 26, A61F 500
Patent
active
055848028
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a knee-joint bandage in the form of a tube with an elastic profiled insert in the region of the back of the knee.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Elastic knee-joint bandages with profiled inserts are used, on the one hand, to protect the knee in particular against sports accidents and also to support the injured knee, it being necessary for the knee-joint bandage to surround the knee joint in such a manner that the normal mobility of the knee joint is not decisively impaired while, however, false movements and false position of the knee joint are largely prevented. In any case, when the knee is bent, the knee-joint bandage is compressed in the region of the popliteal space or back of the knee, respectively this leading in particular to folds in the bandage which cause pain to the wearer.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
An elastic knee-joint bandage with a profiled insert surrounding the knee cap is disclosed, for example, in DE-PS 39 91 334.
In order to reduce or to prevent folding of the knee-joint bandage in the region of the knee joint, knee-joint bandages have already been made in the knee-joint region from particularly loosely woven or thin textile material. It is known from U.S. Pat. No. 4,651,722 to leave the entire popliteal region exposed.
It has now been demonstrated that it is medically desirable to provide elastic profiled inserts also in the popliteal region, in order to obtain an intermittent massage effect in said region.
A knee-joint bandage serving to protect the knee joint against sports accidents, with four profiled inserts cushioning the knee joint at the sides thereof as well as at the front and back thereof, is known from U.S. Pat. No. 3,375,821. In said knee-joint bandage, the two lateral profiled inserts and the front profiled insert are joined together, whereas the profiled insert protecting the popliteal space is not connected to the two lateral profiled inserts. Said profiled insert is left with a certain freedom of mobility, apparently in order thereby to provide the bandage with sufficient flexibility and in order, when the knee is bent, to absorb ensuing folds in the manner of a cushion.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is to create an elastic elongated, knee-joint bandage with an elastic profiled insert, said knee-joint bandage being distinguished in that it does not cause any pain to the wearer during constantly repeated bending of the knee, while, however, also giving rise to the intermittent massage effect. According to the invention this is achieved in that the profiled insert, extending transversely with respect to the axis of the leg, reaches so far beyond the popliteal tendons that support regions of the profiled insert - said support regions exerting a pressure on the popliteal space - are interrupted on either side of the popliteal tendons (11, 12) by recesses, or grooves extending along the axis of the leg in the profioled insert and each accommodating one popliteal tendon.
During the testing of this knee-joint bandage, it has been demonstrated that the recesses accommodating the popliteal tendons leave sufficient space when the knee is bent, such that the profiled insert is unable, in the region of the popliteal space, to exert any pressure on the popliteal tendons. However, the desired therapeutic effect of and emanating from the elastic profiled insert is fully maintained, since said profiled insert is able, to exert pressure on the popliteal space, adjacent to the recesses, albeit without exerting pressure on the protruding popliteal tendons.
The hereinbefore-described design of the elastic knee-joint bandage according to the invention may be employed irrespective of whether the knee-joint bandage is provided with profiled inserts also in the region of the sides of the knee or additionally in the region of the knee cap.
It is advantageous for the specially shaped insert to be loosely positioned between the tube and an elastic textile covering extending across the profiled insert and the edge thereof being elasticall
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patent: 3888244 (1975-06-01), Lebold
patent: 4084584 (1978-04-01), Detty
patent: 4120052 (1978-10-01), Butler
Bauerfeind Hans B.
Hess Heinrich
Krause Wolfgang
Apley Richard J.
Bauerfeind GmbH and Co.
Risley David R.
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