Bandage for the wrist joint or the ankle joint

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12564508-B2
Application number	US-202218576735-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 1, 2022
Priority date	Jul 6, 2021
Publication date	Mar 3, 2026
Grant date	Mar 3, 2026

Abstract

The present invention relates to a joint bandage for a wrist or an ankle with a strap element, wherein the strap element has at least two elastic sections and at least one non-elastic section between the two elastic sections, wherein the second end of the strap element is reversibly fastenable to the strap element or to a tube element and/or wherein the strap element is at least 40 cm long.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A joint bandage configured to be for a wrist or an ankle, comprising a strap element with a first end and a second end, wherein the second end of the strap element is fastened or reversibly fastenable to the strap element or to a tube element, characterized in that, the strap element successively has a first elastic section, a first non-elastic section, a second elastic section, a second non-elastic section and a third elastic section, wherein the first non-elastic section has a section in the form of shape which comprises one of a parallelogram, a curvature, or a kink configured to position the first end of the strap element offset from and parallel to the second end of the strap element, and wherein the second non-elastic section has a taper.

2 . The joint bandage according to claim 1 , wherein the first end of the strap element is configured to run around a zygopodium, such that the first end of the strap element is fixable to the zygopodium.

3 . The joint bandage according to claim 2 , wherein the first end of the strap element is configured to be fastenable to the zygopodium, wherein, in an applied state of the strap element, the strap element is configured such that: the first end of the strap element is positioned on the zygopodium and the strap element runs from the first end of the strap element distally over an extremity end joint to a basipodium, around the basipodium on an inside of the basipodium, dorsally over the basipodium to the zygopodium, thereby forming an overlapping portion of the strap element, and runs around the zygopodium, wherein the first end of the strap element is reversibly fastened to the strap element with the second end in an area of the zygopodium.

4 . The joint bandage according to claim 1 , wherein the strap element comprises (i) a first part including the first end, the first elastic section, the first non-elastic section, the second elastic section, the second non-elastic section, and the third elastic section, and (ii) a second part including a fourth elastic section, the second part is connectable to the first part at the third elastic section.

5 . The joint bandage according to claim 4 , wherein the first part and the second part are reversibly interconnectable at the third elastic section via a hook and loop fastening mechanism of the fourth elastic section, and wherein the hook and loop fastening mechanism of the fourth elastic section on the second part is reversibly fastenable to the tube element without the first strap part element.

6 . The joint bandage according to claim 1 , wherein the second end of the strap element is reversibly fastenable to the strap element.

7 . The joint bandage according to claim 1 , wherein the elastic tube element has a first tube half with a first end and a second tube half with a second end, wherein the first end of the strap element is fastenable to the first tube half, wherein the second end of the strap element is reversibly fastenable to the strap element or to the first tube half, characterised in that, in an applied state of the strap element, the strap element is configured such that: the first end of the strap element is fastened to the first tube half and is positioned on a zygopodium and the strap element runs from the first end of the strap element distally over an extremity end joint to a basipodium, around the basipodium on an inside of the basipodium, dorsally over the extremity end joint to the zygopodium, thereby forming an overlapping portion of the strap element, and runs around the zygopodium, wherein the first end of the strap element is reversibly fastened to the strap element or to the first tube half with the second end in an area of the zygopodium.

8 . The joint bandage according to claim 1 , wherein at least one elastic section of the strap element is configured to run over a back of a hand, or a palm of the hand, or over a back of a foot, or a sole of the foot, and/or wherein at least one non-elastic section of the strap element is configured to run along one or more edges of the hand or one or more edges of the foot.

9 . The joint bandage according to claim 1 , wherein the taper of the second non-elastic section comprises an arch.

10 . The joint bandage according to claim 1 , wherein the section of the first non-elastic section is comprises a kink.

11 . The joint bandage according to claim 1 , further comprising a fourth elastic section associated with the third elastic section.

12 . The joint bandage according to claim 1 , wherein a third non-elastic section is further associated to the first elastic section.

13 . The joint bandage according to claim 1 , wherein the second end of the strap element further comprises a connecting element, such that the second end of the strap element is fastenable to the tube element without the first end of the strap element.

14 . The joint bandage according to claim 1 , wherein the joint bandage does not have a stabilising bar.

Assignees

• Bauerfeind Ag

Inventors

• Bauerfeind Hans B
• Bogusch Toni

Classifications

• A61F5/0111 Primary

  for the feet or ankles · CPC title

• A61F5/0104

  without articulation · CPC title

• A61F5/0118 Primary

  for the arms, hands or fingers · CPC title

• A61F13/066 Primary

  for the ankle · CPC title

• A61F13/107 Primary

  for wrist support (incorporating non-textile reinforcing elements, e.g. springs or metal braces A61F5/0118); Compression devices for tennis elbow (epicondylitis) · CPC title