| 摘要 |
The protective brace is worn by a figure skater to prevent impact borne bone bruising resulting from one or more falls of the skater on the ice. The brace has a semi-rigid, resilient plastic shell. The latter has a generally rectangular web defining a longitudinal axis and having two downwardly oriented, wide, curved extensions at the respective extremities of the longitudinal axis. The shell has a lower and an upper tongue integrally and orthogonally extending from the middle of the web respectively downwardly and upwardly. The shell is molded to fit a particular skater, the web resting on the lombo-sacral area of the back of the skater and molded so as to position the longitudinal axis partially around the hips, the two curved extensions projecting downwardly from the hips over the thighs, the lower tongue straddling over the coccygeal section of the spine and the upper tongue extending over the lombo-thoracic section of the spine. The brace further comprises ten straps that are attached to the shell and that are destined to steadfastly and removably secure the shell adjustably to the body of the skater. The shell is of such a shape that it does not surround significantly any body articulation, so as to allow a relatively good freedom of movement to the skater wearing the brace. Indeed, the only part of the brace that surrounds the articulations is the light, uncumbersome straps.
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