Knee guard and brace with adjustable medial condyle support pad

Details Knee guard and brace with adjustable medial condyle support pad Knee guard and brace with adjustable medial condyle support pad

1988-12-22

1990-07-10

Burr, Edgar S.

Surgery

Truss

Perineal

128 80F, A61F 500

Patent

active

049400452

ABSTRACT:
A knee guard and brace having both lateral and medial side members in which a single, medial condyle support pad is affixed to a plate hingedly connected to the inner side of an upper longitudinal rib within the medial side member. A spacer mounted on the plate and rotatable about a pivot thereon determines the angle at which the longitudinal centerlines of the medial condyle support pad and of the upper rib are inclined with respect to each other when the pad is pressed as far as possible medially, that is, in a direction toward the median plane of the human body. The spacer includes an eccentric arm with a ramp which can be rotated about the pivot. The medial condyle support pad is readily positioned to accommodate a particular user without elaborate custom-fitting once the thigh and calf support pads in the lateral side member have been custom-fitted to his leg and strapped thereon. Optimum placement of the medial condyle support pad so as to protect a wearer's knee against valgus-directed forces is achieved simply by pressing the condyle support pad against the inner surface of the knee and rotating the eccentric arm as far as possible into a gap which exists between the plate and the rib and then fixing the arm in that position.

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