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 Title: |
US4182318:
Method and brace for treating epicondylitis
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Beige, Gunter; 6680 Neunkirchen, Germany
Braunberger, Horst; 6680 Neunkirchen, Germany
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1980-01-08
/ 1977-04-04
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| Application Number: |
US1977000784449
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A61F 13/10;
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IPC-7:
A61F 5/01;
A61F 13/10;
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| ECLA Code: |
A61F13/10T;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
602/020;
602/062;
Original:
128/077;
128/165;
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| Field of Search: |
128/077,165,80 R,80 C,327
273/189 R,189 A
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| Abstract: |
A brace includes a U-shaped resilient band clamp having clamp jaws with inner facing pressing surfaces for applying pressure to the lateral and medial aspects of the elbow region of an arm. The pressing surface of one of the clamp jaws is larger than the pressing surface of the other clamp jaw. The inner periphery of the clamp band is padded and the clamp carries a retaining strap for holding it on the elbow region of an arm afflicted with epicondylitis to apply pressure on the arm muscles and their associated tendons near their origins on the humeral epicondyles.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Beach, Robert W. ;
Brown, Ward ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Yasko, John D.;
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First Claim:
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We claim:
1. A brace for treating an arm afflicted with epicondylitis comprising a resilient U-shaped spring band having opposite end portions forming two opposed jaws, one of said jaws having a pressing surface engageable with the medial aspect of the elbow region of the arm and the other of said jaws having a pressing surface engageable with the lateral aspect of the elbow region of the arm, said clamp further having a bow portion connecting said jaws the major part of which bow portion is of a size and shape to be spaced from the arm when said pressing surfaces of said jaws are in engagement, respectively, with the lateral and medial aspects of the arm elbow region, said pressing surfaces of said jaws normally being spaced apart a distance less than the distance between the lateral and medial aspects of the arm elbow region but being spreadable for engagement with such aspects for applying substantial pressure thereon due to the resiliency of said spring band for applying pressure on the arm muscles and their associated tendons to change the pulling directions of such muscles and tendons.
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