Protective sports garment

Abstract

A protective trouser sports garment is made of an elastic fabric both in the longitudinal direction and in the transverse direction, and has respective longitudinal reinforcements both in the front part of the garment intended to act on the quadriceps muscles and in the rear part of the garment, intended to act on the hamstring muscles, extending on both front and rear faces from the waist and on both legs to the area slightly above the knee of the user, both reinforcements having considerable elasticity in the longitudinal direction and another elasticity in the transverse direction.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION(S)[0001]N.A.U.S. GOVERNMENT RIGHTS[0002]N.A.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]1. Field of the Invention[0004]The present invention makes reference to a protective sports garment, more specifically to a type of trouser for preventing tears, injuries in the hamstring and quadriceps muscles.[0005]2. Description of the Related Art[0006]The quadriceps muscle is the strongest and largest muscle of the entire body, supporting the weight of the body and allowing walking, sitting and running; it is located on the front of the femur. In turn, the so-called hamstrings make up a muscle group located in the rear part of the thigh.[0007]Injuries in these muscles normally occur due to an elongation (stretching a muscle beyond its stretching capacity) or a contraction (due to an effort greater than the biological capacity of resistance to strain). On occasions, these injuries generally cause a muscular tear of inner fibers of the muscle accompanied by the ruptu...

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Benefits of technology

[0010]A protective sports garment has technical particularities intended to prevent the tearing of quadriceps and hamstring muscles as well as to improve the recovery of the user in the event of injury.

[0014]This allows the sportsperson to keep the leg compressed as if he / she wore a neuromuscular bandage or the so-called kinesiotaping, with the reinforcements applied directly on the mentioned quadriceps and hamstring muscles which are to be protected and the garment being held firmly and tightly against the body contour of the sportsperson. The longitudinal elasticity of the reinforcement allows the correct stretching of these muscles, but different transverse elasticity suitably compresses said muscles while doing exercise.

[0015]To achieve a better adaptation to the shape of these muscles, the previous reinforcements have an elongated configuration going from the height of the waist to slightly above the knee, and they have a larger width in the intermediate area than at the ends, acquiring a centrally widened shape, whereas the rear reinforcements are branched in their lower part, having an inverted Y configuration, with two inclined sections which are directed to the sides, suitable for surrounding the rear part of the thigh of the user, suitably and anatomically distributing the pressure.

[0017]The garment thus formed is easy to put on, like conventional sports trousers, and provides protection immediately, preventing the drawbacks of the neuromuscular bandage or the specific technique such as the technique known as kinesiotaping. Furthermore the garment is easily washed and therefore reusable, unlike the use of bandages and the like.

Problems solved by technology

On occasions, these injuries generally cause a muscular tear of inner fibers of the muscle accompanied by the rupture of the blood vessels in the affected muscle, causing an intense needle-like pain which prevents contracting the affected muscle.

Moreover, these bandages can fall or move in contact sports.

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