RU2346671C1 - Functional faulted posture corrector - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medical equipment.

SUBSTANCE: spinal curvature correction, prevention and correction of frontal and saggital functional faults in posture, correct posture training is ensured with posture corrector containing the base and attached waist and shoulder flexible belts with locating fixtures. The base is designed as two vertical flexible belts bonded above and below by nonflexible belts. Shoulder flexible belts are attached to lower part of vertical flexible belts of the base and provided with locating fixtures at their free ends to upper part of nonflexible belts of the base.

EFFECT: higher comfort, preventive and training action on patients suffering from functional faults in posture, higher efficiency of effect on shoulder girdle disorders, possibility to regulate belt tension by changing contact point of locating fixtures.

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Description

The invention relates to medical equipment, namely to belts, bandages and corsets for correcting curvature of the spine, as well as to posture correctors designed to prevent and correct functional disorders of posture in the frontal and sagittal plane, education of correct posture.

Known posture corrector - vest, correcting the human posture (see patent RU 2142244 C1, A61F 5/03, 1999.12.10.). The vest contains a flexible patch, connected at its upper part by straps, the other ends of which are connected to the respective sides of the patch, and an elastic belt with an adjustable fastener attached to the bottom of the patch. The belt is fastened with Velcro Velcro, the straps are equipped with length adjusters and are removably connected to the pad, the other ends of the straps being connected to the side sides of the tabs in its middle part.

A disadvantage of the known device is, firstly, the presence of a flexible lining on the back, which corrects violations only in the sagittal plane. Secondly, only the belt is made elastic.

Known posture corrector (see patent RU 2158119 C1, A61F 5/01, 10.27.2000.). Contains a belt made in the form of a rigid base made of fabric or leather substitute with a fixing part and shoulder holding tapes made of elastic bands. The fixing elements of the shoulder holding tapes are located at the bottom of the base.

The disadvantage of this device, taken as a prototype, is that the base is rigid and does not perform correction of flexion and lateroflexion of the thoracic region. Secondly, the fixing elements of the shoulder holding tapes located in the lower part of the base not only do not eliminate the pronation of the shoulder girdle (“pterygo-shaped shoulder blades”), but due to the elasticity of the tapes and the fixing method, they aggravate it. Thirdly, the rigid solid base of the corrector causes some inconvenience, especially when using the corrector in the summer (in hot weather).

The task of the invention is to increase the efficiency of education of correct posture, prevention and correction of functional disorders of posture, improving the comfort of its use.

The problem is solved due to the fact that in the corrector of functional disorders of posture, containing the base, elastic and shoulder elastic tapes attached to it with fixation elements, the base is made in the form of two vertically arranged elastic tapes interconnected at the top and bottom by inelastic tapes, while shoulder elastic bands are attached to the bottom of the vertical elastic bands of the base and at the free ends have fixing elements to the upper part of the inelastic band of the base.

Using the claimed invention will improve comfort, as well as preventive and educational effects on patients with functional disorders of posture in the sagittal and frontal planes; to increase the effectiveness of the impact on violations of the position of the shoulder girdle, in particular its pronation and anterior adduction; will allow you to adjust the tension of the shoulder and waist elastic bands by changing the contact point of the fixation elements.

The invention is illustrated by drawings, which depict:

figure 1 - General view of the corrector (dorsal side);

figure 2 is a General view of the corrector (ventral side);

figure 3 - corrector worn on the patient (front view);

figure 4 - corrector worn on the patient (rear view);

5 is an example of correction of frontal disorders.

The device comprises a base 1 (Fig. 1), which is made of two vertical elastic bands 2 connected to each other at the bottom by an inelastic tape 3 and at the top by an inelastic tape 4. On the side of the upper part of the base 1 of the corrector on the inelastic tape 4 are located on both sides of the elements fixation 5. On the side of the lower part of the corrector on an inelastic tape 3 are attached elastic waist bands 6, at the free ends of which are located the details of the fixation elements 7 (Fig. 1) and 8 (Fig. 2). In the lower part of the elastic vertical ribbons 2 (FIG. 1) of the base, elastic shoulder ribbons 9 are located, at the free ends of which are located the details of the fixation elements 10 (FIG. 2).

The corrector is made to individual sizes. The length of the shoulder tapes 9 (figure 1) is equal to half the circumference of the chest, measured by inspiration at the level of the nipples of the mammary glands. The length of the waist belts 6 is equal to half the difference in circumference made at the border of the chest and lumbar region, and the length of the patient’s hand from the wrist fold to the tip of the straightened 3rd finger.

Corrector base dimensions 1. Width (length of the lower inelastic tape 3) is equal to the length of the patient’s hand from the wrist fold to the tip of the straightened 3rd finger; height (the length of the vertical elastic tape of the base 2) is equal to the length of the patient’s hand from the wrist fold to the tip of the straightened 3rd finger + 10 cm. The width of the elastic tapes and inelastic tape is at least 48-50 mm.

The corrector works as follows. The main correction function is performed by two vertical elastic bands 2 (Fig. 4) of the corrector base. They are simultaneously strained during flexion of the upper torso (prevention and correction of disorders in the sagittal plane) and individually - when lateraflexion of the upper torso: when the torso is tilted to the right, the left vertical elastic tape 2 (Fig. 5), and vice versa (prevention and correction of disorders in the frontal plane). Shoulder elastic bands 9 (FIGS. 3 and 4) also have a dual function: they take the shoulder girdle back, reducing the interscapular distance, and due to the peculiarities of their fastening and pulling when putting on the corrector (including due to friction between the shoulder elastic tape, clothes and the patient’s skin), eliminate pronation of the shoulder girdle (“wing-shaped blades”) together with vertical elastic ribbons 2 (Fig. 4) of the corrector base, which exert additional pressure on the lower corners of the shoulder blades.

Since the fixation elements of the shoulder and waist elastic bands are not less than 50 × 50 mm in size, it is possible to adjust their tension within 3/4 of the size of the fixation element.

Claims (1)

A corrector of functional disorders of posture, containing a base, waist and shoulder elastic tapes attached to it with fixation elements, characterized in that the base is made in the form of two vertically arranged elastic tapes interconnected at the top and bottom by inelastic tapes, while the shoulder elastic tapes are attached to the bottom of the vertical elastic ribbons of the base and at the free ends have fixing elements to the upper part of the inelastic ribbon of the base.

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