Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Splint or brace
Patent
1993-06-16
1995-04-25
Apley, Richard J.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Splint or brace
602 20, 602 6, A61F 500
Patent
active
054094518
ABSTRACT:
A malleable, handed, wrist brace extending between the forearm and hand for immobilizing the wrist is disclosed. The brace includes a bendable and cut work hardened aluminum sheet cut with a central volar extension ending in a palmar support. The volar extension includes paired transversely extending forearm gripping arms and paired transversely extending wrist joint gripping arms. At the hand end of the brace, paired transversely extending palm gripping arms extend to opposite sides of the palm from just above the palmar support. The cut aluminum sheet has a molded exterior and liner interior bonded to opposite side with the gripper arms bent to confront the liner to the limb to be immobilized. The palmar support portion of the brace confronts a convex portion of the palmar support to the palm to provide preferred anatomical positioning of the hand with respect to the forearm (roughly 5.degree. of dorsi-flexion at the wrist). The brace is virtually self directing in its installation and requires minimum dexterity in such installation so that even a partially disabled user can install the disposable brace.
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Zimmer Products (Encyclopedia of Products), 1978, p. 68.
Apley Richard J.
Meindl Beverly A.
Orthopedic Technology, Inc.
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