US 11,813,187 B2
Wearable device to reduce pain and promote healing of lower back problems
Paul Sacco, Greeley, CO (US)
Filed by Paul Sacco, Greeley, CO (US)
Filed on Jul. 24, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/938,391.
Application 16/938,391 is a continuation of application No. 15/788,191, filed on Oct. 19, 2017, abandoned.
Prior Publication US 2021/0069000 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. A61F 5/00 (2006.01); A61F 5/02 (2006.01); A61F 5/042 (2006.01); A61F 5/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 5/028 (2013.01) [A61F 5/02 (2013.01); A61F 5/024 (2013.01); A61F 5/042 (2013.01); A61F 5/04 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of relieving lower back pain using only a wearer's body weight comprising:
providing a first flexible strap encircling a wearer's upper torso;
providing a second flexible strap encircling the wearer's belt-line, or allowing the wearer to elect to use the wearer's belt or pants waistline as a lower flexible strap;
providing a first continuous rigid splint along a left side of the wearer's body from the first flexible strap to the second flexible strap or to the wearer's belt or to the pants waistline;
providing a second continuous rigid splint along a right side of the wearer's body from the first flexible strap to the second flexible strap or to the wearer's belt or to the wearer's pants waistline;
wherein, the first and second continuous rigid splints have either split lower ends or U-shaped lower ends or flat lower ends constructed to allow use of the wearer's belt or pants waistline as a second flexible strap giving the wearer three options to anchor the bottom of the first and second rigid splints: (1) to use the wearer's pants belt, or (2) to use wearer's pants waist band, or (3) to use the second flexible strap;
whereby the first and second rigid splints being to be coupled between the first and second flexible straps, or the first flexible strap and the wearer's belt or the first flexible strap and the wearer's pants waistband, respectively cooperating to transfer weight of a wearer's upper body, shoulders and head directly to the wearer's hips without mechanical coupling to the wearer's shoulders, said weight pressing downward on the first and second continuous rigid splints relieving lower back pressure by creating an upward reactive force on the wearer's lower spine thus stretching the wearer's lower spine upward relieving pressure on the wearer's lower vertebrae relieving lower back pain.