Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Bandage structure – Support covering
Patent
1997-03-14
1998-04-28
Dvorak, Linda C.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Bandage structure
Support covering
602 62, A61F 500
Patent
active
057438668
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a tubular bandage for parts of the human body, having elastic and less elastic parts. A bandage of this kind is described, for example, in DE-C 34 41 496. This patent relates to an ankle joint bandage in the form of a sock made of stretchable fabric, onto which a strip of nonstretchable material, e.g. of leather, has been sewn. The leather strip extends in this case from the upper end of the sock as far as the region of the sole of the foot. The leather strip serves to accommodate a thin bar of resilient material. A strap is laid obliquely over the leather strip :and is sewn to the sock, which strap forms one side of a hook-and-loop fastening for a wrap-around strap which consists of elastic and can be laid over the instep of the foot. The strap laid obliquely over the leather strip has no effect on the leather strip, but is used merely to fix the wrap-around strap.
It is additionally known to provide tubular bandages which consist entirely of elastic material with hook-and-loop fastening straps in order to have an effect on the positioning of the bandage (US-C 40 36 220, DE-U 92 11 728, DE-U 90 17 450). Moreover, the prior art includes elastic bandages which are composed of a strip of elastic material and are held together at the joining point or overlap point by hook-and-loop fastening straps (DE-A 42 30 165, US-C 38 56 008).
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention is based on the object of making it easier to put on tubular bandages for parts of the human body without in the process losing the therapeutic action of the bandages. Taking a bandage having elastic and significantly less elastic parts as the starting point, the bandage according to the invention has incorporated in it at least one elastic part as a longitudinal strip extending over the entire length of the bandage, which, in addition to the longitudinal strip, comprises the significantly less elastic or nonelastic material, and the elastic parts are bridged by straps which are of significantly less elastic longitudinal extensibility, or are nonelastic in the longitudinal direction, such that, by fixing the straps on the bandage, the elasticity of the elastic parts is significantly reduced or eliminated.
Another bandage, which can be used to good effect primarily for the knee, contains two essentially identical elastic parts, one of which extends from one edge of the bandage to approximately the centre thereof and the other part of which extends from there to the other edge of the bandage, each part covering essentially half the circumference in the circumferential direction and the two parts being offset by 180.degree. with respect to one another, and the elastic parts are bridged by straps which are of significantly less elastic longitudinal extensibility, or are nonelastic in the longitudinal direction, such that, by fixing the straps on the bandage, the elasticity of the elastic parts is significantly reduced or eliminated.
The elastic parts incorporated in the bandage firstly make it significantly easier to put on the bandage, since the elastic parts can stretch to such a degree that it is easily possible to pull the bandage over, for example, the ankle joint or the knee joint. After the bandage has been put on, its elasticity, which is undesirable for achieving a therapeutic action, is removed by fixing on the bandage the straps bridging the elastic parts, as a result of which any pulling on the elastic parts is completely absorbed by the straps bridging the latter. The bandage thus loses its elasticity and, depending on the arrangement of the straps, becomes virtually nonelastic, so that, when the bandage is being worn, its virtual nonelasticity can act fully on the particular part of the body. Nonelasticity of this kind is desirable, for example, if limbs are to be immobilized or supported.
The bandage essentially containing two identical elastic parts can be expediently developed by incorporating in each case one rigid longitudinal bar with a hinge, the pin of which approximatel
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Bauerfeind Hans B.
Reinhardt Holger
Bauerfeind GmbH & Co.
Dvorak Linda C.
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