Patent ID: 6195809
Filing Date: 2001-03-06
Classification: A41D

Abstract:
In combination with an apparatus for decreasing the risk or trauma to the hip joint and greater trochanter region and comprising a stretchable, elasticized garment that rests over the hips having a means to securely hold in place a generally planar hip pad, said garment including said generally planar hip pad having a generally elliptical first base portion with a raised portion superimposed thereon in the form of an open annulus being generally concentric with said first base portion, and with said open annulus including an outer ring of inverted ""U"" form comprising outer edges with a closed top and with an outer periphery, said outer edges being generally coincidental with said outer periphery of said elliptical first base portion and wherein said garment centrally aligns said open annulus over the greater trochanter region substantially at a geometric midpoint.