Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Splint or brace
Patent
1992-06-08
1994-06-07
Brown, Michael A.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Splint or brace
2338, A61F 500, A61F 503
Patent
active
053185056
ABSTRACT:
A medical belt consists of a front belt portion and a back belt portion, respectively made of a semi-rigid and half-resilient material. These belt portions, respectively have a number of ventilation and engagement holes formed on almost whole surfaces of them. One of the belt portions has a plurality of hooking pieces and fitting protrusions formed on both ends portions of the belt portion, and the hooking pieces and the fitting protrusions are adapted to engage with the ventilation and engagement holes formed on another belt portion. In operation, an end of the front belt portion and an end of the back belt portion are connected by engaging the hooking pieces and fitting protrusions with the ventilation and engagement holes, then the front belt portion is applied to a belly of a user of the medical belt and the back belt portion is passed to a back of the user and applied to a waist, and finally any ventilation and engagement holes formed an another belt portion are engaged with the hooking pieces and fitting protrusion.
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