To provide a knee supporter that mitigates a pain in the knee joint by pressurizing the upper and lower portions of the knee, easily provides a high pressure and for which the pressure can be easily adjusted.
The knee supporter is composed of winding cloth pieces having upper protrusion pieces and lower protrusion pieces formed on both right and left sides, upper and lower pressurizing pieces made of a rigid material, one ends of which are fastened to the right or left upper and lower protrusion pieces of the winding cloth piece, and tightening strips, partially joined to the winding cloth piece and made of a strip-form elastic cloth piece horizontally extending. The other upper protrusion piece and lower protrusion piece of the winding cloth piece are provided with engagement means removably engaging with each of the pressurizing pieces and at least one of the ends of the tightening strip is provided with an engagement means removably engaging with the winding cloth piece or the pressurizing pieces. The pressurizing pieces arranged on the upper and lower portions of the knee by mounting the supporter are fixed by an appropriate pressure by the winding cloth pieces and as the pressure is increased by the tightening strips, the pressure applied to the knee can be easily increased.
Osamu Kawamiya
Hisao Ishii
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