US 12,390,355 B2
Portable thoracic brace with spinal traction and method
Armen Avagyan, Ajax (CA); Primoz Cresnik, Milton (CA); and Brian Petz, Ancaster (CA)
Assigned to CORESTRAIGHT LTD., Ontario (CA)
Filed by CORESTRAIGHT LTD., Ajax (CA)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/241,357.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/403,464, filed on Sep. 2, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0074887 A1, Mar. 7, 2024
Int. Cl. A61F 5/02 (2006.01); A61F 5/048 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 5/028 (2013.01) [A61F 5/048 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wearable traction device, comprising:
a traction rod including a superior segment, and an inferior segment;
a lower anchoring assembly coupled to the inferior segment of the traction rod, the lower anchoring assembly configured for affixing to a lower torso of a user;
an upper anchoring assembly movably coupled to the superior segment of the traction rod, the upper anchoring assembly configured for affixing to an upper torso of the user;
a releasable lock supported on the upper anchoring assembly, the releasable lock having:
(i) an engaged position configured to permit movement of the upper anchoring assembly in a superior direction along the superior segment of the traction rod, and prevent movement of the upper anchoring assembly in an inferior direction along the superior segment, and
(ii) a disengaged position configured to permit movement of the upper anchoring assembly in the superior and inferior directions.