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Support apparatus which cradles a body portion for application of localized cooling to high contact-pressure body surface areas

  • US 6,224,623 B1
  • Filed: 07/14/2000
  • Issued: 05/01/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/30/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for supporting at least a portion of a human or animal body (“

  • body portion”

    ), while cooling a weight-bearing area of the body portion, the apparatus comprising;

    a weight-bearing article;

    a surface on the article, the surface including a shaped portion corresponding to a shape of the body portion for fitting to the body portion; and

    means for circulating air through a zone of the shaped portion, the zone receiving pressure from a weight-bearing area of the body portion.

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