Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Splint or brace
Patent
1994-09-09
1995-10-03
Dvorak, Linda C. M.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Splint or brace
602 13, 602 32, 128845, 128870, 128DIG20, 5636, 5640, 5644, 606240, A61F 500
Patent
active
054547814
ABSTRACT:
The cervical traction/stretch device comprises a hollow inflatable body made of an elastically expandable material and includes a shoulder portion, a head portion and a bellows portion which is integrally formed with the head portion and to the shoulder portion. The bellows portion, the shoulder portion and the head portion have aligned U-shaped openings therein adapted to receive a user's neck. Pumping structure is connected to the body for pumping air into the body and for relieving or releasing air out of the body and the head portion. The bellows portion and the shoulder portion have an un-inflated condition, a first inflated condition and a second inflated condition where the bellows portion acts against and between the head portion and the shoulder portion.
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Dvorak Linda C. M.
Glacier Cross, Inc.
Vigil Thomas R.
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