DE29604463U1 - Elastic lumbar bandage - Google Patents

Description

Meißner, Waltraud, Wodanstr. 1, 48565 Steinfurt "Elastic lumbar bandage" \

The innovation concerns a lumbar bandage after the upper

scope of claim 1.

Such lumbar bandages are known from practice. These known lumbar bandages can have a warming inner layer, which, however,

can significantly impair comfort, so that in warm weather patients may not wear such lumbar supports at all.

Furthermore, the known lumbar bandages have the disadvantage

that their supportive effect can be too strong. If the back pain improves through the use of such a lumbar bandage, the patient may therefore tend to stop wearing the bandage because, on the one hand, he already feels the improvement and the lumbar bandage

On the other hand, due to its highly supportive design, the patient's mobility is impaired and may be perceived as uncomfortable.

The innovation is based on the task of creating a generic

to improve the lumbar support so that it offers optimal comfort and can be optimally adapted to the patient's needs in terms of its therapeutic function.

This problem underlying the innovation is solved by an elastic lumbar bandage with the features of claim 1.

In other words, the innovation proposes that the bandage

two-part design, so that weather conditions allow the

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The bandage can be worn either with or without the warming part. It is also possible to wear the warming part alone without the support part, so that if the back pain is alleviated, the warming part can provide further relief for the patient through its circulation-promoting effect.

whereby the greatest possible freedom of movement for the patient is achieved by not having to wear the support part, which naturally restricts this mobility more.

Advantageously, a connection option can be provided between the warming part and the supporting part so that when both parts are worn at the same time, slipping of the two parts against each other can be prevented.

Such connecting means can be formed in a simple manner by means of an adhesive fastener, so that on the one hand easy handling is ensured for the patient and, in addition, a certain amount of flexibility is given with regard to the mutual arrangement of the warming part and the supporting part in relation to one another.

so that the patient can adjust the entire lumbar support optimally to his needs. In the event that the support part is worn without the warming part, optimal comfort for the patient is ensured by the fact that the fleece part of the fastener on the inside of the support part is

is seen, while the hooks of the adhesive fastener, which are perceived as scratchy, are provided on the outside of the warming part, where they do not impair the comfort for the patient even when the warming part is worn alone.

Advantageously, reinforcing elements can be provided on both the heating part and the supporting part. On the heating part, such reinforcing elements can advantageously be designed with a very weak reinforcing effect. This reduces the supporting effect of the heating part, which in

is present to a limited extent, slightly supported. Essentially

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However, such reinforcing elements serve to prevent the warming part from rolling up and to ensure that it fits optimally on the patient’s body.

The reinforcement elements on the support part, however, can

be larger in order to be able to optimally provide the supporting effect required by the supporting part.

Advantageously, the reinforcement elements provided on the support part can be detachable so that the patient can remove the support

of the support part to his needs by varying the number of support elements used

When arranging the support elements, in particular the stiffer support elements of the support part, the middle of the back area of the support part can advantageously be left free of such reinforcements so that the reinforcement elements closest to the spine are arranged at a distance from the spinous processes, thus improving wearing comfort for the patient.

A design of the warming part that is as thin as possible, which does not lead to undesirable pressure phenomena for the patient even when a support part is worn over it, can be achieved by making the warming part like a hose

cut, i.e. without a closure, which adapts to the patient's body due to the flexibility of the material used for the warming part.

In contrast, the support part can advantageously be designed like a belt.

i.e. it can be opened. Due to the naturally somewhat stiffer design of this support part, such an opening option ensures particularly comfortable handling for the patient. The arrangement of several

Closure elements can ensure that

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fluctuating circumference measurements of the patient, the diameter of the support part can always be optimally adjusted so that on the one hand a good supporting effect and on the other hand the highest possible wearing comfort for the patient is achieved. 5

The lumbar support can combine the advantages of a standard and a custom-made lumbar support if it is assembled from individual, standard sections and individually adapted to the patient. In this way, an optimal fit can be achieved in an inexpensive way, even for patients

with considerable deviation from normal dimensions.

An example of the innovation is explained in more detail below using the drawings. The

Fig. 1 the warming part worn on a patient

to 3 from different angles and the

Fig. 4 the complete lumbar bandage including its

up to 6 support parts, also in several views.

In Fig. 1, 1 denotes a warming part which is part of an elastic lumbar bandage and which has several weakly formed reinforcing elements 2 which essentially have no therapeutic function but prevent the warming part 1 from rolling up.

Fig. 2 shows a hook part 3 of a hook or fastener running upright on the back of the warming part 1, and from the combination of Fig. 1 to 3 it becomes clear that the entire warming part 1 is otherwise without a fastener in the manner of a

of a hose section.

Fig. 4 shows, in a representation comparable to Fig. 1, a complete elastic lumbar bandage 4, which consists of the warming part 1 and a support part 5. The support part 5 also has

strengthening elements, but compared to the reinforcement

reinforcement elements 2 of the heating part 1 stiffer reinforcement elements 6.

From Fig. 5 it can be seen that the support part 5 has a free reinforcing element 6 in the middle of its back area.

Zone 7, so that the reinforcement elements 6 closest to the patient's spine are arranged at a distance from the patient's spinous processes.

The reinforcement elements 6 especially in the back area

of the support part 5 can be removably attached, e.g. by arranging them in pockets of the reinforcing element 6. In this way, the reinforcing elements can be removed for washing the lumbar bandage 4, but on the other hand they enable the dosage of

Supportive effect and a change in the wearing comfort of the lumbar bandage 4.

From Fig. 6 it can be seen that the support part 5 is designed like a belt with a closure strip 8 comprising a plurality of small hooks, whereby these small hooks engage in closure eyelets and whereby, according to Fig. 6, further rows of such closure eyelets 9 are provided so that the diameter of the support part 5 can be adapted to the needs of the patient.

In addition to the arrangements shown, it is possible to wear the support part 5 alone, i.e. without the warming part 1 arranged underneath, so that the feeling of warmth generated by the lumbar bandage 4 can be adjusted to the weather conditions, for example.

is controllable. The wearing comfort for the patient when the support part 5 is worn alone is not impaired, since the fleece part of the hook fastener is provided on the inside of the support part 5, to which the hooks of the hook part 3 on the warming part 1 are assigned.

Claims (1)

Elastic lumbar bandage with several upright reinforcing elements, characterized in that the lumbar bandage (4) is designed in two parts, with an inner warming part (1) and with an outer supporting part (5), each of these two parts (1, 5) being individually fixable to the patient's body. Lumbar bandage according to claim 1, characterized in that the warming part (1) and the supporting part (5) have means for a detachable connection to one another. ♦ D-4i1*5* r ·_ 3. Lumbar bandage according to claim 2, characterized in that the connecting means are designed as an adhesive fastener, with a hook part (3) and a fleece part, the fleece part being arranged on the inside of the support part (5). 4. Lumbar bandage according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that reinforcing elements (2, 6) are provided both on the warming part (1) and on the supporting part (5). 5. Lumbar bandage according to one of the preceding claims, since characterized in that reinforcement elements (6) are provided on the support part (5) and are detachably fastened to the support part (5). 6. Lumbar bandage according to one of the preceding claims, since characterized in that the center of the back region of the support part (5) has a zone (7) free of reinforcing elements. 7. Lumbar bandage according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the heating part (1) is designed as a hose section. 8. Lumbar bandage according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the support part (5) is designed like a belt. 9. Lumbar bandage according to claim 8, characterized in that the support part has several closure elements (closure strip 8, closure eyelets 9) in favor of different diameters of the closed support part (5). 10. Lumbar bandage according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the lumbar bandage is individually adapted to the patient from several commercially available chen sections.