Surgery – Truss – Perineal
Patent
1976-07-23
1977-08-09
Yasko, John D.
Surgery
Truss
Perineal
A61F 300
Patent
active
040404161
ABSTRACT:
A spreader bar type orthopedic splint, i.e. with a bar which holds the patient's feet spread apart and at a corrective toed in or toed out angle, in which the bar or feet-spreading member is a flexible, planar body, preferably fabricated of a leaf spring metal, so that the patient can partake of limited exercising movements as permitted by the flexuring of the body out of its plane. It is significant that excluded from the permitted exercising movements is any movement that is rotative about the reference axis used to set the corrective angle of the patient's feet, since such movements would require bending or flexing of the flat body in its own plane, a degree of movement that the body strongly resists despite its flexibility. By excluding this degree of movement, the therapeutic value of the splint is preserved since there is a corresponding preservation of the corrective angle, despite exercising movements of the patient.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3477426 (1969-11-01), Wincheski
patent: 3777747 (1973-12-01), Friedman
"The Duo-Plex Night Splint" Herbst Shoe Mfg. Co. Catalogue, Received May 1966.
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