Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Sling
Patent
1997-10-30
2000-02-29
Apley, Richard J.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Sling
602 60, A61F 500, A61F 1300
Patent
active
060303549
ABSTRACT:
An enhanced sling device is adapted to be worn on the torso, upper extremities, and shoulders of a wearer to thereby support, immobilize, and elevate either the right or left injured upper extremity or full shoulder of the wearer. The device features a panel of flexible material of one piece construction with smoothly contoured perimeter. The panel is flat, with a front surface and a back surface, but flexible enough to contour to the convex and concave surfaces of the upper extremities, shoulders, chest and back of the wearer. The flexible panel has a one piece "T" configuration with a horizontal segment and a vertical segment which is shorter in overall length than the length of the horizontal segment. The horizontal segment and the vertical segment are foldable to envelop the upper extremity on which the device is worn suspended from the shoulders, chest and back of the wearer; and a plurality of individual pieces of hook and loop fastener material are placed on the front surface of the panel, substantially adjacent to the ends of each of the horizontal segment and the vertical segment to provide fixation of the panel of flexible material at preselected points, to thereby provide a sling device which is multifunctional and adapted for use on either the right or left extremity.
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Apley Richard J.
Pothier Denise
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