Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Splint or brace
Patent
1992-11-02
1994-05-17
Brown, Michael A.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Splint or brace
602 26, A61F 500
Patent
active
053123220
ABSTRACT:
A three point extension splint device for correcting flexion contractures about limb synovial hinge joints. The splint device comprises a proximal contact means for contacting the proximal portion of an extremity above the flexion crease of a synovial joint and a distal contact means for contacting the distal portion of an extremity below the flexion crease of a synovial hinge joint. A springy, resilient bridge joins the proximal and distal extremity contact means. These three parts form a anterior assembly. A cupping means that forms the posterior assembly protects the bony prominence of the joint. An adjustable, releasable, strapping means joins the springy, resilient bridge to the cupping means to produce a downward, and centrifugal force in both extremity contact means proportionate to the amount of force exerted by the strapping means thereby causing a myofascial release by the longitudinal stretch of the major muscle and tendon extensions parallel to the long axis of the limb toward the synovial hinge joint while the superficial tissues are stretched in the opposite direction.
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Brown Michael A.
Garvert William C.
Spevack A. David
The United States of America as represented by The Secretary of
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