Patent ID: 7874997

Claim:
A medical product or sports product for bracing joints, comprising: a main strap configured to surround a part of the body to be supported, said main strap including a bottom-most layer configured to come into contact with a wearer's skin, an intermediate layer of padding over said bottom-most layer, and a top layer over said intermediate layer and configured to face outward, said layers of the main strap are coupled to each other and a peripheral edge of the main strap is die punched; a plurality of strips or laces extending from said peripheral edge as a unitary one-piece extension of said main strap, said plurality of strips or laces have an under surface of an anallergic material configured to contact a wearer's skin and have a top surface of a material configured to enable hook and loop fastening; a plurality of eyelets configured to receive said laces are formed in said main strap; and a slot configured to allow the passage of a thumb of a hand is formed in said main strap, an edge of said slot being moulded, wherein at ends of said plurality of strips or laces there is at least one hook and loop fastening element configured to be fixed to an upper-most surface of said top layer of the main strap.