Orthopedic Aid With Insertable Functional Element
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing orthopedic aids, such as bandages and splints, often fail to adapt to changing support needs and therapeutic requirements, as they either provide excessive support that hampers mobility recovery or lack adjustability for varying degrees of joint protection and therapy.
Innovation Solution
A compressive knitted orthopedic aid with a receiving device and a slit opening allows for the easy insertion and removal of interchangeable functional elements, such as stiffeners or therapeutic inserts, maintaining the aid's compressive properties and enabling customizable support and therapy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a bandage with stiffeners is used to provide strong support and protection, then joint stability and protection are improved, but mobility recovery and muscle rebuilding are hindered
Solution Approach 1:
The bandage incorporates interchangeable functional elements that can be adjusted or removed based on recovery stage. The receiving device allows dynamic modification of the bandage's support properties, transitioning from high support (with stiffeners) to progressive mobility support (with reduced or no stiffeners) as healing progresses.
Solution Approach 2:
The bandage is divided into modular components: the base knitted bandage structure and separate interchangeable functional elements. This segmentation allows the functional elements to be independently selected, inserted, or removed based on specific therapeutic needs at different recovery stages.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple different bandages are used to cover different degrees of support, then adaptability to changing needs is improved, but device complexity and number of items required increase
Solution Approach 1:
A single base bandage design serves multiple functions by accommodating different interchangeable functional elements. The same knitted bandage structure with receiving devices can support various types of inserts (stiffeners, therapeutic elements, etc.), eliminating the need for multiple specialized bandages.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention combines the common base bandage structure with multiple different functional elements into one unified system. Instead of having separate bandages for each function, the functional elements are integrated into a single adaptable bandage through the receiving device mechanism.
3Ease of operation
If an opening is made in the knitted part for access to the receiving device, then ease of insertion is improved, but compression properties may be adversely affected
Solution Approach 1:
The opening is strategically positioned and designed with specific local characteristics (slit configuration, orientation, and placement) that minimize disruption to the overall compression properties of the knitted bandage while providing sufficient access for inserting functional elements.
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AI summary
The invention relates to an orthopaedic auxiliary aid such as a bandage, orthesis, splint, support, compressive clothing and/or knitted item or similar for the therapy or support of corresponding body parts, comprising a functional element have additional therapeutic effects. Said orthopaedic auxiliary aid is a compressive knitted part that comprises at least one receiving device for the additional functional element and at least one opening that is embedded in the knitted item allowing access to the receiving device, said opening does not negatively modify the compression properties of the auxiliary aid.