Patent ID: 7951104

Claim:
A brace for a user's arm comprising: an unitary, rigid element including 2 arm-engaging portions that are fabricated in a fixed, acute, V-shaped angular relationship with respect to each other to form a rigid jaw therebetween; a strap comprising elastic material attachable to the element and configured to encircle the arm; and raised portions, rails or ribs positioned along the muscle/tendon-engaging regions on inner sides of the V arms towards the inner, open edge; wherein the arm-engaging portions include muscle/tendon-engaging regions have leading face/edges positioned inwardly, in a direction towards/facing the strap into an area encircled by the strap, such that the regions are positioned to engage one or more muscles and/or tendons of the user's arm along the leading face/edge; wherein a first leading face/edge corresponding to a first muscle/tendon-engaging region is positioned in an angularly displaced relationship with a second leading face/edge corresponding to a second muscle/tendon-engaging region; and wherein the first leading face/edge is angularly displaced between about 24 degrees and about 40 degrees from the second leading face/edge; wherein the strap of elastic material, together with the rigid element, form a loop shaped to encircle the user's arm and flexibly bias the rigid element towards the strap with first and second legs of the rigid jaw being biased by the strap inwardly in a V-shaped configuration with respect to each other such that the first and second legs extend inward into the loop in a position to engage and apply force to objects within the loop via V-shaped element structure given by inner angular edges of the first and second legs, which are positioned in acute relationship with respect to each other to guide and gather muscles/tendons within the loop biased by the elastic strap into the rigid jaw.