Simple dynamic orthosis

• US 7,195,605 B1
• Filed: 06/03/2002
• Issued: 03/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Christopher H. White
• Original Assignee: Christopher H. White
• Inventors: White, Christopher H.
• Primary Examiner(s): DeMille; Danton D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pham; Huong Q.
• Application Number:
  US10/162,980
• Time in Patent Office: 1,758 Days
• Field of Search: 602 60- 65, 602 19- 22, 602 57- 59, 602/5, 602/1, 602/903, 602 75- 78, 602/41, 602/52, 602/54, 602 42- 47
• US Class Current: 602/21
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/066 for the ankle
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/107 for wrist support incorporating non-textile reinforcing elements, e.g. springs or metal braces A61F5/0118; Compression devices for tennis elbow (epicondylitis)
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/128 specially adapted for the neck

Abstract

The present invention includes an adhesive bandage for use in one or more disorders of a joint and/or associated appendage. The method of the present invention includes placing a user'"'"'s joint in a corrective orthopedic position, and adhering an adhesive bandage onto an external surface of the user'"'"'s joint, such that the adhesive bandage stimulates a somatic reflex arc when the user'"'"'s joint deviates from the corrective orthopedic position to prompt the user to return the joint to the corrective orthopedic position.

Claims

1. A method of treating carpal tunnel syndrome, the method comprising:

placing a user'"'"'s wrist in a corrective orthopedic position;

adhering an adhesive bandage onto the user'"'"'s wrist in the corrective orthopedic position, wherein the adhesive bandage extends diagonally from a lateral end of a radius bone to a 5^th metacarpal bone on a top side of the wrist, and wherein the adhesive bandage is effective to stimulate a cutaneous sensory nerve when the wrist deviates from the corrective orthopedic position; and

returning the wrist to the corrective orthopedic position after stimulating the cutaneous sensory nerve.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the adhesive bandage is adhered to the lateral radius bone and the 5^th metacarpal bone when the user'"'"'s wrist is in the corrective orthopedic position.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the adhesive bandage is effective to remind the user to keep the wrist in the corrective orthopedic position.