Abstract: The invention relates to an elastic bandage comprising electrodes which are arranged at a distance from each other, and which are to be connected to an electric stimulation device. The elastic region of the bandage supporting the electrodes is covered, on the outer side thereof, by a pocket which is essentially less elastic than the elastic area, and which contains an elastic cushion as a support for the electrodes.

Abstract: An orthosis for correcting the position of a body joint, the orthosis extending over the two members connected by the body joint and being provided with two arms forming the orthosis, the arms each being held on the respective member by a cuff and being interconnected by a pivot joint adjacent to the body joint is described. For the bending required during normal movement, the pivot joint is formed by an axle ring embraced by the one arm, and the axle ring being fixedly connected to a ring bearing eccentric with respect to the axle ring to form a central adjusting ring. The ring bearing forms a pivot bearing for the other arm and the pivot bearing being embraced by said other arm, such that the rotation plane of said ring bearing with respect to the rotation plane of the axle ring is pivotable through rotation of the adjusting ring.

Abstract: A controllable motion damper with a damping piston separating two damping chambers from each other in a damping cylinder. A damping valve is disposed in a connecting channel of the two damping chambers with the transmissivity of the damping valve for a damping fluid contained in the motion damper being controlled by a control device. Both damping chambers are filled with an electromagnetically uninfluenceable damping fluid. The control device includes a slide piston unit filled with a magnetorheological fluid. The slide piston unit includes a slide piston operatively coupled to the damping piston, wherein, through the intermediary of the magnetorheological fluid, the magnetorheological fluid is influenceable by controllable magnetic field generators with regard to its flow resistance with the slide piston acting on an actuator connected to the damping valve for controlling the movement of the damping piston.

Abstract: A bandage for joints wherein the bandage is made of elastic textile material and is provided with a pad. The pad is covered by an overlay of identical or similar textile material that is attached to the textile material of the bandage. The overlay covering the pad is only provided on its side facing the joint with knobs of anti-slip material thereby exerting a particular pressure on the respective parts of the joint.

Abstract: An insole for footwear comprising silicone with a filler material, having a selected region of a silicone-cork mixture with a sufficiently high proportion of cork that the height thereof can be formed by grinding.

Abstract: Knee-joint bandage of elastic textile material, said knee-joint bandage being provided with a specially shaped insert surrounding the kneecap in a cutout, said specially shaped insert being covered by an overlay of identical or similar textile material attached to said textile material, the specially shaped insert being associated with a flexible, non-expandable tensioning member, said tensioning member connecting the regions of the kneecap poles on the fibula side in an arc around the kneecap such that, when the distance between said regions increases during bending of the knee joint, the distance of the arc from the connecting line between the kneecap poles is reduced and the tensioning member presses on the adjacent side of the kneecap, medially displacing and centering the latter, wherein the tensioning member is attached to the overlay in such a manner that, during bending of the knee joint and stretching of the overlay, the tensioning member displaces the kneecap.

Abstract: Bandage for joints, said bandage being of elastic textile material and being provided with a pad, said pad being covered by an overlay of identical or similar textile material and being attached to the textile material of the bandage by means of edges protruding from the pad, wherein the overlay covering the pad is provided on its side facing the joint with knobs of anti-slip material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a knee brace with straps engageable with the upper and lower leg and disposed above and below the knee, said straps being connected by a hinged rail extending over the knee at the side, said hinged rail comprising a fluid-inflatable padding and a hinged connection in the region of the knee. The padding comprises two optionally inflatable hollow pads connected by a channel, said hollow pads each being so disposed between the knee-distal straps and the hinged connection that, when the hollow pads are inflated, the knee is forced in relation to the straps into a position away from the hinged connection.

Abstract: A tubular compression bandage of elastic textile material includes a plurality of tightening straps adjacently encompassing the bandage. The tightening straps are fastened by their starting portions to a starting longitudinal strip connected to the outer surface of the bandage and are guided circumferentially in pairs at an oblique angle of up to 30° with respect to the longitudinal direction of the bandage to their terminating portions of the side opposite the starting longitudinal strip to pairs of securing eyes arranged in herringbone-like manner and are folded back therein to form Velcro™ fasteners on the bandage, the degree of oblique guiding being adjustable through selectble fixing of the starting and/or terminating portions of the tightening straps in the longitudinal direction of the bandage.

Abstract: The invention relates to a controllable motion damper with a damping piston, said damping piston separating two damping chambers from each other in a damping cylinder, and with a damping valve disposed in a connecting channel of the two damping chambers, the transmissivity of said damping valve for a damping fluid contained in the motion damper being controlled by a control device. Both damping chambers are filled with an electromagnetically uninfluenceable damping liquid, the control device having a slide piston unit filled with a magnetorheological fluid, said slide piston unit having a slide piston non-positively coupled to the damping piston, wherein, through the intermediary of the magnetorheological fluid, said magnetorheological fluid being influenceable by controllable magnetic field generators with regard to its flow resistance, said slide piston acts on an actuator connected to the damping valve.

Abstract: An insole for footwear comprising silicone with a filler material, having a selected region of a silicone-cork mixture with a sufficiently high proportion of cork that the height thereof can be formed by grinding.

Abstract: The invention relates to an orthosis for correcting the position of a body joint, said orthosis extending over the two members connected by the body joint and being provided with two arms forming the orthosis, said arms each being held on the respective member by a cuff and being interconnected by a pivot joint adjacent to the body joint. For the bending required during normal movement, the pivot joint is formed by an axle ring embraced by the one arm, said axle ring being fixedly connected to a ring bearing eccentric with respect to the axle ring to form a central adjusting ring.

Abstract: Ankle brace with two arms extending over the ankle bones along the lower leg, said arms being joined under the foot by a flexible connecting member and being provided with cushioning chambers containing a fluid, each arm of the brace being provided with a single cushioning chamber with a longitudinal subdivision, said longitudinal subdivision forming a zone of reduced expandability in the region of the ankle bone and therefore forming opposite the ankle bone a recess which receives the latter, the connecting member being made of a material of such tensile elasticity that, during walking and the accompanying rolling of the foot as well as rhythmic pumping of the cushioning chambers, said connecting member is intermittently lengthened and shortened.