US20100205710A1 - Protective Sports Garment - Google Patents
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- US20100205710A1 US20100205710A1 US12/428,025 US42802509A US2010205710A1 US 20100205710 A1 US20100205710 A1 US 20100205710A1 US 42802509 A US42802509 A US 42802509A US 2010205710 A1 US2010205710 A1 US 2010205710A1
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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- A41D1/08—Trousers specially adapted for sporting purposes
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- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
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- A63B71/08—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions
- A63B71/12—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions for the body or the legs, e.g. for the shoulders
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- A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
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- A63B71/08—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions
- A63B71/12—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions for the body or the legs, e.g. for the shoulders
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- A63B2071/1233—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions for the body or the legs, e.g. for the shoulders for the legs, e.g. thighs, knees, ankles, feet for the hip
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
- A63B71/00—Games or sports accessories not covered in groups A63B1/00 - A63B69/00
- A63B71/08—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions
- A63B71/12—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions for the body or the legs, e.g. for the shoulders
- A63B71/1225—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions for the body or the legs, e.g. for the shoulders for the legs, e.g. thighs, knees, ankles, feet
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- the present invention relates to a protective sports garment, more specifically to a trouser-type garment for protection against hamstring tears.
- hamstrings make up a muscular group located in the rear part of the thigh. Injuries in these muscles normally occur due to a distension of the fibres thereof as a consequence of a mechanism by means of which a strong muscular contraction associated to a stretching thereof are combined. Most of these tearing injuries happen when practicing sports, especially those which require performing abrupt acceleration and speed movements, such as tennis, football, basketball and others. Once the injury has occurred it is mainly treated by means of total rest and measures to prevent inflammation and swelling in the affected part.
- a preventive solution against said muscular tears is to use compression bandages around the thigh and the nearby bone structures by means of special adhesive strips providing a resistance to the stretching of the muscle and it compresses it more or less constantly.
- This technique called kinesiotaping, requires the use of elastic adhesive strips which are applied on the skin before practicing a sport and are removed once said practice of the sport has ended. This represents a considerable use of strips and bandage material which are put on by a specialist, mainly a physiotherapist, or a person with suitable training, requiring time and new strips for each use.
- the protective sports garment object of this invention has technical particularities intended to prevent the tearing of hamstring muscles by easy-to-use means and to improve the recovery of the user in the event of injury.
- the sports garment is formed like trousers with an upper waist and two lower tubular extensions, for passing and housing the legs, the garment being made of an elastic fabric both in a longitudinal direction and in a transverse direction; the garment comprising flat longitudinal reinforcements in the rear part intended to act on the hamstring muscles and arranged from the waist towards the lower area, said reinforcements having considerable longitudinal elasticity, but reduced or nil transverse elasticity.
- the reinforcements are branched in their lower part, having an inverted Y configuration, with two inclined sections which are directed to the sides of the tubular extension, suitable for surrounding the rear part of the thigh of the user, suitably and anatomically distributing the pressure.
- the reinforcements are made up of additional pieces of fabric permanently fixed to the fabric of the garment by fastening means, such as heat welding, sewing, gluing or any others.
- the garment is easy to put on, like conventional sports trousers, and provides protection immediately, preventing the problem of the specific kinesiotaping technique bandage. Furthermore the garment is easily washed, and therefore reusable unlike the use of bandages and the like.
- FIG. 1 shows an elevation view of the garment.
- FIG. 2 shows a sectional elevation view, with the reinforcements in the inner face of the rear part of the garment.
- the protective sports garment 1 is formed like shorts, with an upper waist 2 for passing the torso of the user and two lower tubular extensions 3 reaching a length of a little more than mid-thigh.
- the garment 1 is made of an elastic fabric with square elasticity, i.e., in a longitudinal direction and in a transverse direction, to be adapted to the contour of the body of the user and offer certain compression.
- a pair of longitudinal reinforcements 4 is arranged in the rear part of the garment 1 extending from the waist 2 to the lower end of the tubular extensions 3 forming the legs.
- the reinforcements 4 have considerable longitudinal elasticity, but reduced transverse elasticity, which causes them to tighten on the hamstring muscles on the rear face of the corresponding thigh of the sportsperson.
- Each reinforcement 4 has a flat inverted Y configuration with two inclined sections 5 in the lower part thereof, and which are directed towards the opposite sides of the leg or tubular extension 3 in an arrangement for surrounding the rear part of the thigh of the user towards the side part thereof.
- the reinforcements 4 are arranged in the inner face of the garment 1 and fixed by fastening means, in this case by means of heat welding, on the entire surface thereof to assure the correct tension of the fibres of the garment 1 and the adaptation and compression on the body of the sportsperson user.
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Abstract
There is disclosed a protective sports garment that is intended to prevent the tearing of hamstring muscles by easy-to-use means and to improve the recovery of the user in the event of injury. In one aspect of the invention, the sports garment is formed like trousers with an upper waist and two lower tubular extensions, for passing and housing the legs, the garment being made of an elastic fabric both in a longitudinal direction and in a transverse direction. The garment includes flat longitudinal reinforcements in the rear part intended to act on the hamstring muscles and arranged from the waist towards the lower area. The reinforcements have considerable longitudinal elasticity, but reduced or nil transverse elasticity.
Description
- This Application claims priority to EP Application No. 09000904.4, filed Feb. 13, 2009.
- The present invention relates to a protective sports garment, more specifically to a trouser-type garment for protection against hamstring tears.
- The so-called hamstrings make up a muscular group located in the rear part of the thigh. Injuries in these muscles normally occur due to a distension of the fibres thereof as a consequence of a mechanism by means of which a strong muscular contraction associated to a stretching thereof are combined. Most of these tearing injuries happen when practicing sports, especially those which require performing abrupt acceleration and speed movements, such as tennis, football, basketball and others. Once the injury has occurred it is mainly treated by means of total rest and measures to prevent inflammation and swelling in the affected part.
- A preventive solution against said muscular tears is to use compression bandages around the thigh and the nearby bone structures by means of special adhesive strips providing a resistance to the stretching of the muscle and it compresses it more or less constantly. This technique, called kinesiotaping, requires the use of elastic adhesive strips which are applied on the skin before practicing a sport and are removed once said practice of the sport has ended. This represents a considerable use of strips and bandage material which are put on by a specialist, mainly a physiotherapist, or a person with suitable training, requiring time and new strips for each use.
- The protective sports garment object of this invention has technical particularities intended to prevent the tearing of hamstring muscles by easy-to-use means and to improve the recovery of the user in the event of injury.
- According to the invention, the sports garment is formed like trousers with an upper waist and two lower tubular extensions, for passing and housing the legs, the garment being made of an elastic fabric both in a longitudinal direction and in a transverse direction; the garment comprising flat longitudinal reinforcements in the rear part intended to act on the hamstring muscles and arranged from the waist towards the lower area, said reinforcements having considerable longitudinal elasticity, but reduced or nil transverse elasticity.
- This allows the sportsperson to keep the leg compressed as if he/she wore a kinesiotaping bandage, with the reinforcements applied directly on the mentioned hamstring muscles which are to be protected and holding the garment firmly and tightly against the body contour of said sportsperson. The longitudinal elasticity of the reinforcement allows the correct stretching of these muscles, but the reduced transverse elasticity suitably compresses said muscles while doing exercise.
- To achieve a better adaptation to the shape of these muscles, the reinforcements are branched in their lower part, having an inverted Y configuration, with two inclined sections which are directed to the sides of the tubular extension, suitable for surrounding the rear part of the thigh of the user, suitably and anatomically distributing the pressure.
- In an embodiment of the invention the reinforcements are made up of additional pieces of fabric permanently fixed to the fabric of the garment by fastening means, such as heat welding, sewing, gluing or any others.
- The garment is easy to put on, like conventional sports trousers, and provides protection immediately, preventing the problem of the specific kinesiotaping technique bandage. Furthermore the garment is easily washed, and therefore reusable unlike the use of bandages and the like.
- To complement the description being made and for the purpose of helping to understand the features of the invention, a set of drawings is attached to the present specification in which the following has been shown with an illustrative and non-limiting character:
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FIG. 1 shows an elevation view of the garment. -
FIG. 2 shows a sectional elevation view, with the reinforcements in the inner face of the rear part of the garment. - In the example shown the
protective sports garment 1 is formed like shorts, with anupper waist 2 for passing the torso of the user and two lowertubular extensions 3 reaching a length of a little more than mid-thigh. Thegarment 1 is made of an elastic fabric with square elasticity, i.e., in a longitudinal direction and in a transverse direction, to be adapted to the contour of the body of the user and offer certain compression. A pair oflongitudinal reinforcements 4 is arranged in the rear part of thegarment 1 extending from thewaist 2 to the lower end of thetubular extensions 3 forming the legs. - The
reinforcements 4 have considerable longitudinal elasticity, but reduced transverse elasticity, which causes them to tighten on the hamstring muscles on the rear face of the corresponding thigh of the sportsperson. - Each
reinforcement 4 has a flat inverted Y configuration with twoinclined sections 5 in the lower part thereof, and which are directed towards the opposite sides of the leg ortubular extension 3 in an arrangement for surrounding the rear part of the thigh of the user towards the side part thereof. - The
reinforcements 4 are arranged in the inner face of thegarment 1 and fixed by fastening means, in this case by means of heat welding, on the entire surface thereof to assure the correct tension of the fibres of thegarment 1 and the adaptation and compression on the body of the sportsperson user. - Having sufficiently described the nature of the invention as well as a preferred embodiment, it is hereby stated for all relevant purposes that the materials, shape, size and arrangement of the elements described can be modified provided it does not involve altering the essential features of the invention which are claimed below.
Claims (3)
1. A protective sports garment, of the type formed like trousers with an upper waist for passing the torso of the user and two longer or shorter legs or lower tubular extensions for introducing and housing the legs and more specifically the thighs, wherein the garment is made of an elastic fabric both in the longitudinal direction and in the transverse direction, and comprises in the rear part of the garment flat longitudinal reinforcements intended to act on the hamstring muscles and extending from the waist towards the lower area, said reinforcements having considerable longitudinal elasticity, but reduced or nil transverse elasticity.
2. The garment according to claim 1 , wherein the reinforcements are branched in their lower part and have an inverted Y configuration, with two inclined sections which are directed to the sides of the tubular extension, operatively suitable for surrounding the rear part of the thigh of the user.
3. The garment according to claim 1 , wherein the reinforcements are made up of additional pieces of fabric permanently fixed to the fabric forming the garment.
Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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EP09000904A EP2210510B1 (en) | 2009-01-23 | 2009-01-23 | Protective sports garment |
EP09000904.4 | 2009-02-13 |
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ES (1) | ES2383476T3 (en) |
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US20100281593A1 (en) * | 2009-05-11 | 2010-11-11 | Juan Manuel Aloy Font | Protective sports garment |
US9302137B1 (en) * | 2013-07-22 | 2016-04-05 | Christopher Joseph Yelvington | Resistance-applying garment, connector for use in garment, and method of forming garment |
US9446279B1 (en) * | 2013-07-22 | 2016-09-20 | Christopher Joseph Yelvington | Resistance-applying garment and connectors used in forming garment |
JP2018035453A (en) * | 2016-08-30 | 2018-03-08 | 学校法人近畿大学 | Lower-body clothing |
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US7229390B2 (en) * | 2000-04-20 | 2007-06-12 | Wacoal Corp. | Tights-type leg support garment |
USD495469S1 (en) * | 2002-10-30 | 2004-09-07 | Wacoal Corp. | Performance up type, ankle length stars & stripes sports pants |
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US9446279B1 (en) * | 2013-07-22 | 2016-09-20 | Christopher Joseph Yelvington | Resistance-applying garment and connectors used in forming garment |
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CN112273748A (en) * | 2020-11-03 | 2021-01-29 | 盐城市云天织服装有限公司 | Thickened riding garment |
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ATE547019T1 (en) | 2012-03-15 |
EP2210510B1 (en) | 2012-02-29 |
ES2383476T3 (en) | 2012-06-21 |
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