Patent ID: 9320635
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: A61F,A61L

Claim Text:
1. A shoulder brace, comprising: a brace body with an arm portion configured to reside about a shoulder of a user and a torso portion; a plurality of shoulder straps extending over the arm portion from a front upper portion to a back upper portion of the brace body; and a substantially rigid thermoplastic insert releasably held by the arm portion of the brace body, wherein the insert has a user specific custom shape that substantially conforms to a glenohumeral joint over a humeral head of a shoulder of the user, wherein the thermoplastic insert is malleable above a defined temperature but retains the custom shape at room temperature, wherein the thermoplastic insert has a thickness that is in a range of about 0.125 inches to about 0.5 inches, and an area in a range of about 10 in