Apparatus and device for respectively slipping on and removing from a limb a tubular compression orthosis

Abstract

An apparatus facilitates slipping on a limb, a tubular compression orthosis, such as a compressive stocking made of elastic material, or the like. The apparatus includes a support arm ( 6 ), an stretching clamp ( 1 ) including a tubular body ( 7 ) mounted longitudinally sliding, on the support arm ( 6 ) and two opposite jaws ( 8, 9 ) with substantially parallel stretching plates ( 12, 15 ), whereon can be slipped a tubular orthosis in retracted inactive state, and a mechanism ( 2 ) for controlling the opening of the stretching clamp ( 1 ) to exert a thrust to gradually move the second jaw ( 9 ) away from the first jaw ( 8 ) up to an extreme position corresponding to the maximum stretched position of the orthosis, said stretching being maintained by self-wedging. Also described is a device for removing a tubular compression orthosis or the like.

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       15 . Device for removing socks, stockings, tights or the like, such as compressive orthoses called support stockings or socks, made in a knitted elastic fabric material which are prescribed to patients for treating circulatory pathologies, characterized in that it consists of a sleeve ( 101 ) comprising a rod ( 102 ) provided at its first end with a handle ( 103 ) and at its second end with a curved spatula ( 104 ) in the shape of a lunar crescent, with a decreasing transverse section from its tip ( 105 ) to its heel ( 106 ), said rod ( 102 ) being made integral with the spatula ( 104 ) near its heel ( 106 ), and in that the spatula ( 104 ) has an upper face ( 107 ) convex from its tip ( 105 ) to the rod ( 102 ) and overall planar from the rod ( 102 ) to the heel ( 106 ) and a concave lower face ( 108 ) in order to generate excessive thickness (e) between the lower ( 108 ) and upper ( 107 ) surfaces of the spatula ( 104 ) in front of the rod ( 102 ) thereby forming an embossment ( 109 ) on the upper face ( 107 ) of the spatula ( 104 ) so that the tip ( 105 ) of the spatula ( 104 ) being introduced between the sock and the calf of a patient, said sock is removed from the foot by a downward vertical movement combined with a pronation or supination movement of the spatula ( 104 ).  
   
   
       16 . Device according to  claim 15 , characterized in that the upper face ( 107 ) of the spatula ( 104 ) comprises a groove ( 110 ) extending from its tip ( 105 ) to its embossment ( 109 ).  
   
   
       17 . Device according to  claim 16 , characterized in that the profile of the groove ( 110 ) is in the shape of a circular arc, the generatrix of which decreases from the tip ( 105 ) to the embossment ( 109 ) of the spatula ( 104 ).  
   
   
       18 . Device according to  claim 15 , characterized in that the spatula ( 104 ) is made integral with the rod ( 102 ) so that the axis of the rod ( 102 ) forms an angle between 90° and 180° with a line (d) passing through the tip ( 105 ) of the spatula ( 104 ) and through the fixation point of the rod ( 102 ) with the spatula ( 104 ).  
   
   
       19 . Device according to  claim 18 , characterized in that the spatula ( 104 ) forms an angle of 157° with the rod ( 102 ).  
   
   
       20 . Device according to  claim 18 , characterized in that the rod ( 102 ) is bent along a suitable angle near its end made integral with the spatula ( 104 ).  
   
   
       21 . Device according to  claim 15 , characterized in that the rod ( 102 ) is crimped into a blind hole ( 111 ) provided on the upper face ( 107 ) of the spatula ( 104 ) near its heel ( 106 ).  
   
   
       22 . Device according to  claim 15 , characterized in that the rod ( 102 ) has a length of  51  cm from the handle to the spatula ( 104 ).  
   
   
       23 . Device according to  claim 15 , characterized in that the spatula ( 104 ) has a length of 225 mm and a maximum width of 45 mm.  
   
   
       24 . Device according to  claim 15 , characterized in that the rod ( 102 ) consists of a first hollow portion, one of the ends of which is made integral with the spatula ( 104 ) and into which slides a second portion provided with the handle ( 103 ), the first hollow portion comprising means for blocking the second portion, in order to adjust the dimension of the rod ( 102 ) according to the morphology of the patient.