Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Splint or brace
Patent
1994-07-13
1996-07-09
Dvorak, Linda C.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Splint or brace
2319, A61F 500
Patent
active
055339611
ABSTRACT:
A lumbar support garment for surrounding at least the lumbar region of a wearer of the garment comprises a main cloth, a stretchable auxiliary belt, and longitudinal sheet-form support bones. The main cloth comprises a single-sheet of cloth made of stretchable fabric, or a face cloth and a lining cloth made of stretchable knit fabric, and extends in use from the lumbar region of the wearer's back, around the wearer's sides, to at least the sides of the wearer's abdomen. The main cloth includes vertical seam parts in the vicinity of the side regions or seam parts at least extending from the waist sides which slant downwards in the front of the main cloth. Darts are formed at the seam parts configuring the vertical-sectional form in a convex shape to the skin side. The stretchable auxiliary belt is made of stretchable knit fabric narrower than the main cloth and extends from the back at least at both right regions and is fixed to the main cloth at least at both right and left ends of the auxiliary belt. The support bones are made of an of an elastomer resin or an amorphous resin in the vicinity of the portions in contact with the right and left latissimus dorsi muscle and gluteus maximus muscle of the wearer's back side of the lumbar support garment.
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Dvorak Linda C.
Wacoal Corp.
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