Orthopedic brace

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  • An exemplary conventional soft orthopedic brace is a knee brace comprising a support sleeve formed from a stretchable elastic cloth-covered neoprene and one or more flexible, yet relatively non-stretchable, cloth straps partially or fully encircling the support sleeve.
  • The present orthopedic brace is embodied in two sizes: one referred to as a regular, and the other as a large.
  • If you will look in the dictionary, you will see that an artificial limb is a prosthesis and an orthopedic brace is an orthosis.
  • Specialized footwear, including foot orthotics, custom made orthopedic shoes or customized footwear, that is not permanently attached to an orthopedic brace is not covered.
  • 2004) (57)A motion controlling hinge (20) for an orthopedic brace is provided.

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