Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Splint or brace
Patent
1990-09-21
1992-03-17
Apley, Richard J.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Splint or brace
128880, 2 21, A61F 504
Patent
active
050958976
ABSTRACT:
An orthopedic splint (10) comprises a neoprene rubber tube having an internal surface forming a curved splint passage (50) for snugly fitting on a joint (14, 16) to be treated and defining a radially directed internal ridge (52) extending lengthwise along the tube for pressing against the joint. The splint is constructed by folding in half a flat sheet of neoprene rubber (18), attaching free end portions (26, 28) of the sheet to form a transition tube (44) having a transition internal passasge (46), sewing a seam (40) in said free adjacent free edge portions to define a wedge shaped angle pointing away from the transition internal passage having an angle of between 140.degree.-160.degree., cutting away excess neoprene sheet so as to leave a V-shaped seam allowance (42) at the free edge portions beyond the seam to form the ridge, and turning the transition tube inside out to form the splint (10).
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Clark E. Nelson
Maurer Gretchen
Apley Richard J.
Dvorak Linda C. M.
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