The present invention relates to a bandage for the back or pelvis having two adjacent pads, which are mounted on the inner face of a supporting piece in the back area of the bandage, respectively one fastener strap piece attaching at the opposite edge regions of the supporting piece for applying the bandage by joining together the ends of the two fastener strap pieces, and two tensioning belts being assigned to the supporting piece, which are guided in such a manner that the pads approach each other when tensioning the tensioning belts and apply a pressure dependent on a tension force acting on the tensioning belts onto the relevant body part.
Such a bandage is disclosed in DE 10 2011 000 953 A1. In this case, two tensioning belts are provided, which are attached on the outer face of the supporting piece. Guiding the belt to the abdominal side of the bandage in this instance occurs either in a crossed manner or via a deflection piece. The first embodiment has the disadvantage that the person putting on the bandage acts, when tightening the tensioning belts, upon the left pad using the right tensioning belt and upon the right pad using the left tensioning belt so that the bandage easily may be tightened in the wrong manner, which may be disadvantageous in particular for single-sided pain conditions, for example, pain conditions on only the right side or only on the left side. In the second embodiment, the deflected tensioning belts rub against each other during tightening.
The technical problem of the present invention is to provide a bandage for the back or pelvis which overcomes the disadvantages from the prior art.
Furthermore, a bandage for the back or pelvis is to be provided, for which the tensioning belts enable a more direct application of force onto the pads.
Also, a bandage for the back or pelvis is to be provided, which enables a flat and compact structure of the tensioning belt system.
The present invention solves the underlying technical problem by the subject of Claim 1.
The present invention solves the underlying technical problem, in particular, by a bandage for the back or pelvis having adjacent pads, which are mounted on the inner face of a supporting piece in the back area of the bandage, respectively one fastener strap piece attaching at the opposite edge regions of the supporting piece for applying the bandage by joining together the ends of the two fastener strap pieces, two tensioning belts being assigned to the supporting piece, which are guided in such a manner that the pads approach each other when tensioning the tensioning belts and apply a pressure dependent on a tension force acting on the tensioning belts onto the relevant body part, and the tensioning belts being connected to the supporting piece on the inner face of the supporting piece in the area of the pads.
It is shown that a connection of the tensioning belts on the inner face of the supporting piece in the area of the pads there attached advantageously enables a direct application of force from the tensioning belts onto the area of the pads and onto the pads themselves. In doing so, the tensioning belts may directly terminate in and act at the pads. This technical solution achieves that pain conditions in only one sacroiliac joint may also be advantageously influenced.
In a preferred embodiment, respectively one tensioning belt runs on the outer face of respectively at least one portion of a fastener strap piece.
Preferably, the supporting piece has at least one opening through which the tensioning belts may be guided to the inner face of the supporting piece.
Preferably, the supporting piece has two openings, and a tensioning belt is guided through respectively one opening to the inner face of the supporting piece.
In a preferred embodiment, the tensioning belts run partially on the outer face of the supporting piece, and the supporting piece has at least one opening through which the tensioning belts are guided to the inner face of the supporting piece.
The at least one opening, in particular the two openings, enable(s) in an advantageous manner that the tensioning belts may be guided from the inner face to the outer face of the supporting piece and, thus, on the one hand, a connection of the tensioning belts according to the present invention is enabled on the inner face of the supporting piece in the area of the pads and, on the other hand, a conventional guiding of the tensioning belts and possible tension straps on the outer face, in particular in the front area of the bandage, is simultaneously enabled, so that the person wearing the bandage may grip and use the tensioning belts or possible tension straps without further action. Furthermore, the at least one opening, through which the tensioning belts are guided from the outer face to the inner face of the supporting piece, has the advantage that here a deflection may occur, which enables a simpler more easily gliding and symmetrical application of force according to the cable-pull principle. Despite the deflection, the tensioning belts also advantageously run barely in opposite directions and do not rub against each other because the opposite running section of one tensioning belt may run on the inner face of the bandage.
For this reason, the at least one opening is located in an advantageous manner at the preferred deflection pieces according to the present invention.
Preferably, the first tensioning belt is guided through a first opening in the supporting piece to the inner face of the supporting piece and the second tensioning belt is guided through a second opening in the supporting piece to the inner face of the supporting piece.
Preferably, the at least one opening is a slit in the supporting piece. Preferably, the two openings are each one slit in the supporting piece, in particularly preferably having a border. This serves in an advantageous manner as a reinforcement so that the slits are not able to tear.
Preferably, the tensioning belts are each guided via a deflection piece mounted at the supporting piece by reversing the direction from the area of the pads to the respective edge region of the supporting piece.
Preferably, the deflection pieces are attached on the outer face of the supporting piece.
Preferably, a deflection lug attached in the center of the supporting piece forms the two deflection pieces.
Preferably, it is provided that the first tensioning belt is guided through a first slit from the inner face of the bandage to the outer face and the second tensioning belt is guided through a second slit from the inner face of the bandage to the outer face of the bandage and, then, the tensioning belts are deflected via the deflection lug attached to the center of the supporting piece and are guided on the outer face of the bandage to the front side of the bandage.
This enables a particularly flatly designed embodiment in the back area of the bandage.
In a preferred embodiment, the pads are reversibly attachable at the supporting piece, particularly preferably by a Velcro® connection. This has the advantage that the pads may be individually positioned and, in doing so, the force application acting through the tensioning belts may be also individualized. Preferably, the pads are mountable in that area of the supporting piece, where the tensioning belts are connected to the supporting piece. Preferably, the connection elements for the pads are, thus, in the area where the tensioning belts are connected to the supporting piece.
Suitable pads are known to the skilled person. Preferably, the pads have nubs. When the pads are moved, these nubs act in terms of a friction massage on the “trigger points” influencing the pain in the soft tissue, for example, in the muscle. In one embodiment, it may be provided that the pads may be supplied with heating elements or cooling elements. A preferably reversible attachability of the pads enables to easily exchange or replace such heating elements or cooling elements.
To be able to mount different pads at the bandage for the back or pelvis, in a preferred embodiment, the supporting piece is provided by a Velcro® fastener surface matching the respective Velcro® fastener surface of the pads, so that different pads may be exchanged in an easy manner via the Velcro® fasteners.
The tensioning belts are preferably connected to the supporting piece in the region of the pads. In so doing, it may be advantageously provided that the tensioning belts are connected to the supporting piece in the region of the pads, in particular, in the same location where the pads are connected to the supporting piece, which enables a particularly good application of force onto the pads.
Preferably, respectively one tensioning belt is connected at respectively one fastening area of a pad to the supporting piece, in particular, is directly there connected to the supporting piece.
In an alternative embodiment, the tensioning belts are connected to the supporting piece via respectively one banner-like fastening element located at the supporting piece. Such a banner-like fastening element, also know as a flap, enables a particularly good application of force of the tension forces of a tensioning belt directly onto the area of a pad.
The tension of the tensioning belts may be advantageously caused in that each tensioning belt respectively leads to and terminates in a lug element in the form of a tensioning lug through which respectively one tension strap is guided, which is guided by its one end to a fastener tension piece and, by its other end free to be gripped in such a manner that, when tensioning the two tension straps, the supporting piece is contracted and the pads approach each other. In this manner, the free ends of the two tension straps are able to be manually pulled, for the reason of which the tension straps via the deflection lugs exert a tension which is continued to the tensioning belts and, for this reason, exerts a tension running in the opposite direction onto the supporting piece, through which the supporting piece is contracted and the pads approach each other.
Preferably, the supporting piece and the areas of the fastener strap pieces adjacent to the supporting piece have the same elasticity.
Preferably, the supporting piece and at least the halves of the fastener strap pieces adjacent to the supporting piece have the same elasticity. Preferably, the supporting piece and the halves of the fastener strap pieces adjacent to the supporting piece have the same elasticity.
Surprisingly, it is shown that for the embodiment according to the present invention of the tensioning belts it is not necessary that the supporting piece has to be more flexible than the adjacent fastener strap pieces, such as it so far has been realized, for example, by the the SacroLoc® Orthese of Bauerfeind AG, Zeulenroda-Triebes, Germany, based on DE 10 2011 000 953 A1. For such bandages for the back or pelvis from the prior art, the supporting piece is more flexibly designed than the adjacent fastener strap pieces, so that when tightening the tensioning belts, the tension force primarily acts in the region of the pads located at the supporting piece. In so doing, the supporting piece and the adjacent fastener strap pieces may, however, not be manufactured from the same material and as one piece. It is now shown that for a bandage for the back or pelvis according to the present invention, the supporting piece may be equally elastic as the adjacent areas of the fastener strap pieces and the force of the tensioning belts still acts as desired primarily in the area of the support belt and the pads. Thus, an embodiment, in which the supporting piece and the adjacent areas of the fastener strap pieces are manufactured from the same material and even as one piece, is advantageously possible.
In this instance, the supporting piece may be preferably delineated from the adjacent fastener strap pieces by respectively one cross-bracing.
In an advantageous manner, it is also shown that the supporting piece may be manufactured from a very light and air-permeable knitted fabric. For this reason, the supporting piece is preferably manufactured from a knitted fabric. Preferably, the supporting piece is manufactured from a very light and air-permeable knitted fabric.
Preferably, the supporting piece and the halves of the fastener strap pieces adjacent to the supporting piece are manufactured from a very light and air-permeable knitted fabric.
Preferably, the supporting piece has an area made from a knitted fabric which has an open structure, which is simultaneously stretchable in the longitudinal direction as well as also in the lateral direction.
Preferably, the supporting piece has an area made from a knitted fabric which has an open structure made from a plurality of partial elements, the open structure simultaneously being stretchable in the longitudinal direction as well as also in the lateral direction, and the partial elements of the structure respectively having a width of at least 2.0 mm and no more than 10.0 mm in the stretched state.
Preferably, the partial elements of the knitted fabric structure respectively have a width of at least 2.0 mm and no more than 10.0 mm in the stretched state. Preferably, the partial elements of the knitted fabric structure respectively have a height of at least 2.0 mm and no more than 10.0 mm in the stretched state.
Preferably, the supporting piece has an area of a knitted fabric which is simultaneously stretchable in the longitudinal direction as well as also in the lateral direction, the knitted fabric having holes which respectively have a width and/or a height of at least 2.0 mm and no more than 10.0 mm in the stretched state. Preferably, the knitted fabric has a net structure.
Surprisingly, it is shown that such a knitted fabric may be advantageously used as the primary component of the supporting piece, resulting in a particularly light and air-permeable supporting piece.
Advantageously, such a knitted fabric may be also used for the fastener strap pieces, in particular, for the portions of the fastener strap pieces adjacent to the supporting piece.
Knitted fabrics, also called knitwear, are fabrics which are industrially manufactured from yarn systems on a knitter by stitch formation. Knitted fabrics belong to knits. A distinction is made between weft knits and warp knits. While during knitting or crocheting one stitch next to the other is produced, thus, the yarn runs horizontally along a row of stitches, for knitwear, the yarn forms stitches situated one above the other and the yarn runs perpendicular and, together with the adjacent yarn, forms a knitted web. A warp knit is manufactured using many threads and at least as many needles. When warp knitting, the threads run vertically and are captured by the needles and are pulled through the previous row of stitches.
Warp knits are, for example, used in the form of nets, for example, in the form of luggage nets in cars. The nets may be designed in an elastic or non-elastic manner.
Preferably, the knitted fabric has an open structure which is simultaneously stretchable in the longitudinal direction as well as also in the lateral direction. Preferably, the partial elements of the open structure respectively have a width of at least 2.0 mm up to no more than 10.0 mm in the stretched state. Preferably, the partial elements of the open structure have, alternatively or additionally, respectively a height of at least 2.0 mm up to no more than 10.0 mm in the stretched state.
According to the present invention, the knitted fabric is preferably designed as warp knits. According to the present invention, the knitted fabric is preferably designed as a net. Thus, the knitted fabric is preferably netted, that is, is an open-pored planar material having regular stitches formed as openings. The openings may be, for example, formed in a rhombical, square, hexagonal, diamond-shaped or a honeycomb manner. Preferably, the net structure is made of a plurality of equal or at least similar partial structures. Within the context of the present invention, a partial structure is understood as a stitch or an opening, in particular a hole, and threads surrounding and bounding the stitch or opening.
Within the context of the present invention, an open structure of a knitted fabric is in particular understood as a net structure, which has a plurality of holes and stitches, in particular bigger holes, preferably holes having a width and/or height of at least 2.0 mm, more preferably of at least 3.0 mm in the stretched state. Thus, an open structure is in particular an open-pored net.
The skilled person may conclude embodiment options of such a preferred knitted fabric from DE 10 2012 017 722 A1.
In the present application text, all data regarding height and/or width of the holes, partial elements and/or stitches relate to the height and/or width of the holes, partial elements and/or stitches in the stretched state of the knitted fabric in the bandage, as long as not indicated otherwise.
Within the context of the present invention, the term “in the stretched state” is understood as that state of the knitted fabric which is present when wearing the bandage. According to the present invention, the knitted fabric is preferably not used in the non-stretched state, but preferably in a slightly pre-stretched state. The knitted fabric is preferably not stretched to a maximum in the bandage but may preferably be further stretched when applying the bandage to the body of a human.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the knitted fabric is a warp knit. In a preferred embodiment, the knitted fabric has no pile yarn.
In a preferred embodiment, the knitted fabric, which is in particular a warp knit, is characterized by the fact that the knitted fabric has no pile yarn and an open structure, which is simultaneously stretchable in the longitudinal direction as well as also in the lateral direction.
In a preferred embodiment, the knitted fabric has a ground thread and at least a further thread, in particular a weft thread. In a preferred embodiment, the thickness of the ground thread is greater than the thickness of the at least one additional thread, in particular of the weft thread.
For bandages for the back or pelvis from the prior art, the supporting piece and the adjacent fastener strap pieces are designed as a knit. In comparison, the knitted fabric may not only be designed in such a manner that it is stretchable, in particular simultaneously stretchable, in the longitudinal and the lateral direction, but also that the knitted fabric is designed so that it corresponds with high precision to required force expansion specifications, thus, that the knitted fabric when applying a specific force is able to feature a desired and specific stretch. Moreover, the knitted fabric is, owing to the holes, breathable, preferably having a width and/or a height of at least 2 mm and no more than 10 mm in the stretched state. It is shown that the knitted fabric has a significantly better breathability than knits so far used in the prior art. In so doing, a heat build-up is prevented so that perspiration is reduced. The knitted fabric has an elasticity which results in a good adaptation to the body shape, the two-dimensional plane adapting in an optimal manner to the three-dimensional body of the patient. This may be achieved in particular by forming the openings in the shape of diamonds.
In an advantageous manner, the knitted fabric may also generate new design effects, in particular structural effects, because longitudinal strips in different yarn colors are possible.
Advantageously, the knitted fabric is stretchable in the longitudinal as well as also in lateral direction.
In a preferred embodiment, the open structure of the knitted fabric is a diamond or honeycomb structure.
In a preferred embodiment, the partial elements of the structure, in particular of the diamond structure or honeycomb structure in the stretched state, preferably have, when stretched to a maximum, respectively a width and/or height of at least 2 mm, preferably at least 2 and no more than 10 mm, preferably at least 3 and no more than 8 mm, preferably at least 3 and no more than 7 mm, preferably at least 3 and no more than 6 mm, preferably at least 5 and no more than 6 mm.
In a preferred embodiment, the partial elements have an equal extension in the longitudinal and in the lateral direction. In the stretched state, the height and the width of the partial elements of the structure present in the knits are preferably approximately equal in size, preferably are equal in size.
In a preferred embodiment, the knitted fabric is made of a thread, preferably a warp thread having a yarn count or thickness of at least 100 dtex, more preferably of at least 250 dtex. In a preferred embodiment, the knitted fabric is made of a thread, preferably a warp thread having a yarn count or thickness of at least 500 dtex. In a preferred embodiment, the knitted fabric is made of a thread, preferably a warp thread having a yarn count or thickness of at least 700 dtex. In a preferred embodiment, the knitted fabric is made of a thread, preferably a warp thread having a yarn count or thickness of no more than 10.5 ktex. In a preferred embodiment, the knitted fabric is made of a thread, preferably a warp thread having a yarn count or thickness of at least 900 dtex up to no more than 999 dtex.
In a preferred embodiment, the knitted fabric expands by approximately 30% at an applied force of 1.0 through 5.0 N/cm, preferably approximately 2.5 N/cm. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the knitted fabric expands approximately 30% at an applied force of 1.0 through 5.0 N/cm, preferably 2.5 N/cm.
Preferred embodiments also result from the dependent claims.
The present invention is described in greater detail on the basis of the subsequent figures and examples, but the shown examples are not to be understood in a restrictive manner.
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A warp knit has been machine-made from a double-covered raw rubber yarn. The stitch-forming yarn used a titer of 940 dtex.
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10 2014 012 654.4 | Aug 2014 | DE | national |
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PCT/EP2015/069272 | 8/21/2015 | WO | 00 |