Patent ID: 6808501
Filing Date: 2004-10-26
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
A wrist area impression kit for custom molding of a wrist brace comprising:(a) an elongated tubular impression sleeve formed of a resilient terry knit fabric material having sufficient length to extend from a position over a portion of the patient's hand across the patient's wrist to a position over a portion of the patient's forearm, the sleeve having a thumb-receiving opening therein proximate one end, the terry knit fabric material having sufficient radial resiliency to be mounted over the patient's hand onto the patient's wrist to thereafter conform to the patent's hand, wrist and forearm over the length of the sleeve, and the terry knit fabric having a weakened strip provided by a pair of adjacent fabric warps laterally spaced apart by a distance more than an average lateral warp spacing for other warps in the sleeve extending longitudinally from one end of the sleeve to an opposite end of the sleeve to facilitate severing of the sleeve after casting; and (b) a quantity of curable resin sufficient to rigidify the sleeve into a hardened impression cast provided in one of a container separate from the sleeve and directly on the sleeve.