Surgical hip wrap

Claim 1

An elongated fabric strip configured to independently wrap around the waist and one upper thigh of a user, thereby covering and protecting a hip region, said one upper thigh of said user being the thigh adjacent the hip to be covered and protected by said fabric strip, said strip comprising: (a) first securing means for securing a first end region of said fabric strip around the waist of said user, said first securing means comprising two or more elongated planar extensions, separately by a gap, each configured to wrap around the waist region of said user; (b) second securing means for securing a second end region of said fabric strip around said one upper thigh of said user, thereby positioning an intermediate region of said fabric strip against a hip region of said user, said second securing means comprising an elongated extension configured to wrap around said upper thigh of said user; (c) said elongated extensions of said first and second securing means projecting outwardly in opposite directions away from said intermediate region, said intermediate region being wider than either of said extension, said extensions of said first and second securing means being not co-linear and offset one from the other, but extending along generally parallel lines; and (d) a notch adjacent said second securing means and projecting concavely into said intermediate region, said notch being configured to accommodate the crotch region of a user when said fabric strip is used.