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Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage

20130123678 - Disruptable adhesive layer for fluid activated debonding: Various systems, methods and materials are disclosed that enable efficient delivery of an agent into an adhesively adhered article, in which the agent elicits a desired outcome, on demand. This strategy, though general in scope, is also more specifically described with regard to enabling painless or atraumatic removal of products... Agent: Avery Dennison Corporation

20130123679 - Wound and bandage protection system and method: Wound/bandage protectors configured as a wrap, a sock/mitten, which may be made out of stretchable material. The wrap may have one or more fastening straps as well as possibly a first catch fastening surface. The sock/mitten may have a fastening strap and a sheath. The wrap, the sock/mitten, and the... Agent:

20130116608 - Shrink-tube medical and protective device: A therapeutic, supportive, or protective device is fabricated from a material capable of contracting in response to interacting with heat, cold, a chemical reagent, electromagnetic energy, or mechanical energy. The device is positioned over an anatomical joint or other body part and via a “shrink fit,” conforms to the part,... Agent:

20130116609 - Supporter: A supporter includes a small number of members and has a simple fitting method. It can give an intraperitoneal pressure rise effect to a supporter wearer, attain retroflexion suppression, and stabilize the sacroiliac joint. The supporter includes a base material which is formed of a knitted fabric by warp knitting... Agent: Kowa Company, Ltd.

20130116610 - Orthopedic component for use with an orthopedic brace: An orthopedic component for use in orthopedic device includes a rigid frame and a flexible subshell connected to and extending flexibly outwardly from the rigid frame. The subshell may have a shell body and a perimeter edge portion defining a lip extending outwardly from a surface of a shell body... Agent: &#xd6 Ssur Hf

20130116611 - Support for human joints: A support for human joints is disclosed having first and second rods which are connected to each other via articulation means which permits reciprocal rotation of the two rods about a rotation pin. The support includes locking means having a flexible cable which limits rotation between the two rods in... Agent: Indaco S.r.l.

20130116612 - Wearable light therapy apparatus: Optical rods which transmit light exteriorly of their length are coupled to one or more lasers at ends. The optical rods are mounted on various carriers or as part of an optical bandage to provide therapeutic light to a portion of a human body. The lasers may be activated at... Agent:

20130116613 - Veterinary dressing wrap: A veterinary dressing wrap for positioning and holding a medical dressing on a wound site located on the leg of an animal providing both protection for the leg as well as breathability and moisture control at the wound site.... Agent:

20130110019 - Device and method for control of hemorrhage: A junctional and truncal tourniquet and a hip-girdling pelvic sling device for maintaining a desired amount of tension surrounding a person's hips and pelvis to securely support and stabilize a pelvis that has been fractured and for securing a pressure applying device to a person with a preferred amount of... Agent: The Seaberg Company, Inc.

20130110020 - Orthopedic device for dynamically treating the knee: An orthopedic device is arranged for dynamically treating the knee. The device includes a hinge assembly, a frame having an upper cuff and a lower cuff spaced apart from and connected by the hinge assembly, and a dynamic shell connected to the frame and extending along the first side of... Agent: &#xd6 Ssur Hf

20130110021 - Vertebra health body suit: A vertebra health body suit has a fixation part, a memory alloy support part, a spring part and a wearing part. The fixation part is removably surrounded to the waist of the user and supported on the pelvis of the user; the lower end of the memory alloy support part... Agent:

20130110022 - Spring loaded elbow extension brace: An elbow brace worn by a patient to recuperate an injury to the ulnar nerve or “funny bone.” The elbow brace includes two arched cuffs facing the same direction, and two struts interconnecting the cuffs. Each strut is formed from a wire of spring steel. A pair of oppositely-wound coiled... Agent: Weber Orthopedic, Inc.

20130110023 - Knee bandage having a corrective strap: The invention relates to a bandage for knee joints comprising an elastic textile stocking, an annular or clasp-like elastic profiled insert arranged in or at the textile stocking to encase at least the lateral (fibula-side) section of the patella of the knee joint and at least one flexible, inelastic tensile... Agent: Bauerfeind Ag

20130110024 - Device for correcting hallux valgus and method for producing device for correcting hallux valgus: Provided is a device for correcting hallux valgus using a shape memory alloy, which can be easily worn and exert a large and adequate correcting force to thereby correct hallux valgus or hallux varus. The device for correcting hallux valgus comprises a correcting plate formed of a shape memory alloy... Agent: Ryosuke Kainuma

20130110025 - Dressing device for use wtih a cannula or a catheter: A wound dressing device for use with a transcutaneous medical device such as a cannula or a catheter comprises a polyurethane matrix which may be covered with a film backing. Chlorhexidine di- gluconate and a polyanhydroglucuronic salt are contained in the polymer matrix. The wound dressing device prevents microbial colonization... Agent: Hemcon Medical Technologies (ip) Limited

20130110026 - Strained skin treatment devices and methods: Devices, kits and methods described herein may include a dressing that is pre-strained and stored for a period of time after which the dressing is applied to the skin of a subject.... Agent: Neodyne Biosciences, Inc.

20130110027 - Multi-purpose modular trauma management system and novel individual elements forming part thereof: A modular trauma management system is provided which includes a number of multi-purpose elasticised pressure and/or support bandages combined with a modular framing support system based on a series of rods or tubes and connectors. The bandages are connectable lengthwise to like bandages to form longer bandage lengths and the... Agent:

20130102940 - Orthopedic system for immobilizing and supporting body parts: A unitized cast system for immobilizing and supporting a body part. The unitized casting system includes a first inner layer for padding and dissipating heat against the patient's skin. A second layer is formed from a thermoformable structural material such as perforated plastic. A protective third outer layer is provided... Agent: Exos Corporation

20130102941 - Neck collar: A neck collar interfacing with a lower edge of a helmet of a wearer. The collar includes a pad and a shell. The pad is formed of a closed-cell foam material and forms a loop to be secured about the neck of the wearer. A plurality of shell components are... Agent:

20130102942 - Ingrown nail correction tool, method for manufacturing ingrown nail correction tool, and method for improving durability and corrective force of ingrown nail correction tool: The longitudinal direction (rolling direction) and the width direction of a cold processed plate material are indicated. The layout direction of an ingrown nail correction tool material is arranged such that the longitudinal direction of a material of a correction tool body substantially corresponds to the width direction, and the... Agent: Furukawa Techno Material Co., Ltd.

20130102943 - Reloadable finishes for textiles and formulations for loading such finishes: A polymer compound according to the invention comprises an acrylic acid copolymer composed of acrylic acid derivatives and/or methacrylic acid derivatives, containing: a) at least one acrylic acid derivative and/or methacrylic acid derivative substituted with a sulfonic acid group; b) at least one hydrophilically substituted acrylic acid derivative and/or methacrylic... Agent: Schoeller Textil Ag

20130102945 - Protective wound shield: A light-weight, semi-rigid wound shield protects wounds and intradermal therapy ports from impacts between therapy sessions. The wound shield comprises a domed cover forming a concave cavity above the wound or therapy port. A flange surrounding the cavity presses against the patient's skin to deflect and distribute the force of... Agent: Martin Long Medical Products, LLC

20130102944 - Wound and bandage protection system and method: This invention concerns wound/bandage protectors. In particular, the invention relates to a wound/bandage protector configured as a wrap, a sock/mitten, or a bandage, which may be made out of stretchable material. The wrap may have one or more fastening straps as well as possibly a first catch fastening surface. The... Agent:

20130102946 - Hemostatic textile: The present invention is directed to a hemostatic textile, comprising: a material comprising a combination of glass fibers and one or more secondary fibers selected from the group consisting of silk fibers; ceramic fibers; raw or regenerated bamboo fibers; cotton fibers; rayon fibers; linen fibers; ramie fibers; jute fibers; sisal... Agent: The University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill

20130102947 - Blister dressing including at least two tackifying resins: e