Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Splint or brace
Patent
1995-06-16
1996-12-24
Dvorak, Linda C.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Splint or brace
1281011, 128 991, 2311, A61F 500
Patent
active
055869696
ABSTRACT:
A two piece reversible support belt has a body and a strap. The body is longitudinally curved so that when it is wrapped around a human waist it forms a tapered shape, and may be worn so that the tapered shape either opens up or opens down. The strap encircles the body and is detachably removable from the body so that the free end of the strap may always be held in the right hand by a man or in the left hand by a woman, regardless of which orientation the body is worn in. In one form, lateral slits are cut in the body to retain the strap laterally, and the strap may be worn against either side of the body in this embodiment. Detachable fastener material may be provided on the inside surface of the strap in this embodiment and an accessory such as a lumbar pad may be secured thereby, between the belt body and the wearer. The body may also be made articulated with elastic hip sections or with molded foam accordion fold hip sections. Belt loops may also be molded into the belt body, or separately molded in two halves and put together to sandwich the body material between peripheral flanges of them. The body may be made with a laminate of foam and fabric or of foam and a continuous surface film or foil, and may be made with or without hip notches along one or both side edges.
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