Rehabilitation device

• US 5,267,928 A
• Filed: 05/12/1992
• Issued: 12/07/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Brassco International Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Brassco International Incorporated
• Inventors: Barile, Raymond J., Sawa, Thomas M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Apley, Richard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CLARK, JEANNE MARIE
• Application Number:
  US07/881,649
• Time in Patent Office: 574 Days
• Field of Search: 482/74, 482/121, 482/124, 482/131, 482/105, 2/227, 2/228, 2/230, 2/231, 2/233, 2/22, 2/23, 2/DIG. 6.7, 128/95.1, 128/96.1, 602/61, 602/16, 602/23, 602/27
• US Class Current: 482/124
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/055 extension element type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4025 Resistance devices worn on the user's body A63B21/065 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0482 primarily by articulating the hip joints A63B23/0211, A63B23/0405, A63B23/0476 take precedence

Abstract

A device is disclosed which includes a short pant with both a drawstring and cinches designed to cinch the leg portions tightly. Hook and pile fastening halves are disposed at various areas in the front and back of the pant and two elongated straps having hook and pile fastening halves on their ends are attached at one end to side seams of the pant. Through manipulation of these straps as well as auxiliary straps forming a part of the present invention, the user may provide proper support for their musculature to facilitate rehabilitation.

Claims

1. A rehabilitation device, consisting essentially of:

a) a stretchable pant having a waist portion and two depending circumferentially extending stretchable leg portions;

b) each leg portion having a front surface and a rear surface, either each said front surface or each said rear surface having a first attachment member mounted thereon;

c) said pant having two opposed sides defined by vertical lines of merger of respective front and rear surfaces, each side having an elongated elastic strap extending therefrom and having a distal end with a second attachment member mounted thereon; and

d) said first and second attachment members being interengageable to fasten a said strap in a desired stretched configuration on said pant whereby a large region of a muscle may be mechanically supported by said stretchable pant and a small region of said muscle within said large region may be further mechanically supported by a said strap either while soft tissue damage is healing or to prevent recurrence of such damage.

2. The invention of claim 1, wherein each of said front surfaces and rear surfaces has a first attachment member thereon.

3. The invention of claim 1, wherein each of said sides has a lower split terminus and a tightening strap selectably fastenable in differing degrees of tightness across said terminus to tighten each leg portion about a leg contained therein.

4. The invention of claim 1, wherein said waist portion has a drawstring.

5. The invention of claim 1, wherein said pant has a circumferential region immediately below said waist portion, and a third attachment member on said region.

6. The invention of claim 5, wherein said third attachment member comprises a plurality of third attachment members.

7. The invention of claim 5, further including an auxiliary strap having opposed ends each carrying a fourth attachment member releasably attachable to either one of a said first or third attachment member.

8. The invention of claim 5, wherein said third attachment member is elongated.

9. The invention of claim 6, including four elongated third attachment members.

10. The invention of claim 1, wherein each of said elongated straps has a wider region adjacent said pant and a narrower region distal therefrom.

11. The invention of claim 1, wherein said pant is made of rubber.

12. The invention of claim 1, further including an elongated flexible wrap attachable to one of said first attachment members, said wrap being wound in a desired pattern on said pant and fastenable thereon.

13. The invention of claim 12, wherein said wrap has first and second faces and first and second ends, said first end having a third attachment member on said first face and a fourth attachment member on said second face, said second end having a third attachment member on said second face.