Patent ID: 8905956
Filing Date: 2014-12-09
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A dynamic thoracic lumbar sacral posture garment device for improving the posture of a patient and comprising; an elastic garment for stretching around the thoracic, lumbar and sacral of the patient including back, side and front panels, the front panels including pectoral areas and terminating in adjacent marginal edges, and shoulder straps connected between the back panel and respective side panels to form arm openings; the back or side panels being formed with respective strap openings spaced below the level of the arm openings; a garment fastener device attached to at least one of the marginal edges for fastening to the other marginal edge to hold the garment stretched to grip at least the thoracic; first releasable fasteners mounted on the front surfaces of the respective front side panels; elongated scapular retraction gripper straps fastened on their respective one ends to the interior of the respective pectoral areas to extend upwardly within the shoulder straps to, when the garment is donned by a patient, project over the respective shoulders of the patient and terminate in respective second ends, the respective straps being formed with downwardly facing high friction surfaces for gripping the patients respective shoulders, and the garment free of straps under the patient's armpits; an elastic lumbar belt attached to the garment for encircling the area of the patient's lumbar and including belt free ends; belt fasteners on the free belt ends for releasably fastening the belt free ends together; elongated tension straps attached on their respective one ends to the respective second ends of the gripper straps and projecting inside the garment diagonally across one another on the inside of the back panel to extend out through the respective strap openings to terminate in respective free tension strap ends configured to overlie the respective first fasteners, the tension straps including respective second fasteners on the respective free ends for adjustably fastening to the respective first fasteners whereby the garment device may be placed on a patient, with the gripper straps over the shoulders and the respective gripper surfaces gripping the shoulders, the tension straps extending across one another in the back to project outwardly through the holes, the front panels drawn together and the garment fastener device fastened to hold the garment stretched to grip at least the thoracic, so that when tension is applied to the free ends of the tension straps to draw down on the respective second ends of the respective gripper straps force will be applied to the high friction surfaces to the respective shoulders to, as the tension forces are applied to the respective second ends, the shoulder straps will tend to draw the tops of the respective shoulders rearward and, while continuing to apply the tension, the second tension strap fasteners may be attached to the first tension strap fasteners.