Patent ID: 7618389

Claim:
A potentiating support for an area of a body, comprising: (a) a framework having a surface for abutment with an area of a body, wherein, (i) said framework defines a plurality of permanent openings in said surface extending completely through said framework and being bounded by said framework, (ii) said framework, along its entire boundary with at least one of said openings, is elastically stretchable between a first initial state and extended states, (iii) said framework is flexible, elastically stretchable and comprises an integrally molded network of interconnected, elongate elastomeric segments, and includes: (A) left and right sides comprising first and second exterior lateral segments and top and bottom sides comprising first and second exterior transverse segments, which left, right, bottom and top sides collectively define a perimeter of the framework, (B) first, second, third, and fourth interior, mutually exclusive subsets of transverse segments, each of which extends between and interconnects the left and right sides of the perimeter of the framework, (C) first and second interior, mutually exclusive subsets of lateral segments, each of which extends between and interconnects the top side of the perimeter of the framework and the second interior subset of transverse segments, and each of which intersects and interconnects the first interior subset of transverse segments, and (D) third and fourth interior, mutually exclusive subsets of lateral segments, each of which extends between and interconnects the bottom side of the perimeter of the framework and the second interior subset of transverse segments, and each of which intersects and interconnects the third and fourth interior subsets of transverse segments, (E) wherein each subset of segments comprises one or more segments; (b) a fastening mechanism connected proximate each of said left and right sides of said framework for tensioning said surface of said framework in abutment with the area of the body.