Shoulder-joint bandage

US5181906A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BAUERFEIND AG · DE

Inventor

• Hans B. Bauerfeind · Zeulenroda, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 22, 1991
• Grant date: Jan 26, 1993
• Expiry date: Jul 22, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F13/146
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A shoulder-joint bandage having an elastic sleeve receiving the upper arm of the patient and a cap passing over the shoulder, has extension belts wound in opposite helical senses along the sleeve and cap and forming a crossover point at the apex of the cap from which the belts extend diagonally downwardly across the back and chest of the patient to a lower crossover point below the armpit of the opposite arm at which the belts are stitched together and have frontal and dorsal connecting segments passing around the back and chest of the patient to be joined by a connecting element at their ends.