Patent ID: 6540710
Filing Date: 2003-04-01
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
A non-compression wrist brace, comprising:a body; said body having longitudinal limb, with a open cuff, at one end of said limb, and a transverse element at the opposite end of said limb; wherein said cuff comprises first means or engaging the dorsal side, and the lateral flanks, of a forearm; said element comprises second means for engaging the dorsal side of a hand; said cuff has a cincture joined thereto for clasping said cuff fast to such a forearm; said element has a cincture joined thereto for clasping said element fast to the dorsal side of such a hand; said cuff and said element cooperatively define means for non-contactingly bridging across a wrist, between such forearm and such hand, with said limb, to isolate said wrist and immobilizing such wrist; and said limb is unyieldably rigid.