Patent ID: 8894597

Claim:
A scapulo-spinal stabilizer comprising: a shirt-like garment for extending from the upper torso to the iliac crest of a wearer thereof, said garment having a neck opening, a waist opening, superior shoulder portions, a posterior panel, and an anterior portion, said superior shoulder portions extending laterally from said neck opening, said posterior panel opposite said anterior portion, and said anterior portion having a front closure for fastening the garment around a wearer's torso, two elongated, semi-rigid thoraco-lumbar support stays, said posterior panel having dual, spaced apart, parallel sheaths extending between said neck opening and said waist opening, said support stays received in said sheaths thereby closely holding and positioning said support stays paramedially along each side of the spine of a wearer and such that said stays cross the medial border of each scapula of the wearer, and two posterior flexible scapular straps attached to anchor points located distally on the superior shoulder portions of said garment such that said anchor points are positioned posterior to the mid-coronal plane immediately posterior to the acromiclavicular joint at the superior border of the trapezius muscle of a wearer of the garment, said scapular straps each extending angularly downward from said anchor points towards the opposite side of the garment, each of said scapular straps having an anterior end, the anterior ends of said scapular straps detachably attached to the anterior portion of said garment so that said scapular straps form a crossing configuration across said posterior panel and said support stays.