摘要 |
The invention relates to a protective accessory (patch, garment, piece of clothing) comprising a piece of sheet material having an elastic fabric layer and a tacky coating layer, provided to be applied with the tacky coating side to a body part, whereas the elastic fabric consists of a bi-elastic eyelet type fabric (i.e. a fabric provided with holes / apertures) with from 50 to 1000 eyelets (holes / apertures) per dm2 and with an eyelet opening area of at least 5 % of the sheet fabric area, whereas the tacky coating layer consists of a tacky therapeutic gel layer with apertures corresponding to the eyelet- apertures of the elastic fabric, and whereas the non tacky surface of the sheet material shows a coefficient of friction (as measured according to the standardised "Centexbel" method as defined here below) of less than 0,6. The invention also relates to a method for reducing skin friction involving such accessories and to a new sheet material suitable for realising such accessories. |