Otto Bock Healthcare Gmbh

Andree Ellermann

Holger Reinhardt

Matthias Vollbrecht

Hartmut Semsch

Gert-Peter Brüggemann

Alfio Albasini

Christian Liebau

Andreas Gösele-Koppenburg

Raymond Best

Wolf Petersen

Kai Dressler

Andreas Gösele- Koppenburg

An orthopedic brace system for bracing a joint with a dimensionally stable, flexible base body, which can be placed around the members adjoining the joint and has closure devices by way of which the base body can be fixed to the members adjoining the joint. A dimensionally stable outer frame extending over the joint is removably attached to the base body by way of adjustable fastening members, wherein the outer frame is braced on the members adjoining the joint.

Orthotic system for an ankle joint

In a knee-joint orthosis for guiding the patella of a patient during the transition from an extended position to a flexed position of the knee joint and vice versa, with a fastening means (I) for fastening to a thigh and a lower leg, with at least one laterally arranged stabilizing element that takes up a flexion of the knee joint and bears on the thigh and lower leg, and with a dimensionally stable guide element () that can be held in position by an arrangement of tensioning straps and is arranged to bear laterally on the patella by way of a lateral base part () from which medially directed attachments () extend proximally and distally of the patella and are secured to strap sections () on the orthosis in the area of the thigh and of the lower leg in such a way that a medial tensile force is exerted on the attachments ().

Knee-joint orthosis

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Ettlingen, Germany

Andree Ellermann