Truss (medicine)


 * This article is about medical trusses. There is also a kind of structural system called a truss, used to efficiently bridge spans or to provide additional stiffness to a system as a trade off of larger size/depth to reduce overall weight.

In medicine, a truss is a kind of surgical appliance, particularly one used for hernia patients.

Trusses do not cure the hernia. Instead, a truss provides support for the herniated area, using a pad and belt arrangement to hold it in the correct position. With the advent of modern hernia surgery, trusses have generally become obsolete for persons who have reasonably inexpensive access to medical surgery procedures.