Patent ID: 6030354
Filing Date: 2000-02-29
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
An enhanced sling device adapted to be worn on the torso, upper extremities, and shoulders of a wearer to thereby support, immobilize, and elevate either the right or left injured upper extremity or full shoulder of the wearer, the device comprising:a panel of flexible material of one piece construction with smoothly contoured perimeter, the panel being flat, with a front surface and a back surface, but flexible enough to contour to the convex and concave surfaces of the upper extremities, shoulders, chest and back of the wearer, the flexible panel having a one piece ""T"" configuration with a horizontal segment and a vertical segment which is shorter in overall length than the length of the horizontal segment, the horizontal segment and the vertical segment being foldable to envelop the upper extremity on which the device is worn suspended from the shoulders, chest and back of the wearer; anda plurality of individual pieces of hook and loop fastener material placed on the front surface of the panel, substantially adjacent to the ends of each of the horizontal segment and the vertical segment to provide fixation of the panel of flexible material at preselected points, to thereby provide a sling device which is multifunctional and adapted for use on either the right or left extremity;wherein the vertical segment has two elongated side members disposed parallel to one another, and each vertical segment side member has a rectangular piece of hook and loop fastener material at an inferior end of each side member on the panel front surface disposed between two long edges of the corresponding vertical segment and one inch from an inferior end thereof;and further wherein the vertical segment has an elongated central member disposed between and parallel to the two side members, and a piece of hook and loop fastener material at an inferior end of the central member on the front surface of the panel.