Physical therapy apparatus

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1985-11-14

1988-09-27

Apley, Richard J.

Surgery

Truss

Perineal

272143, A61L 102

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047733985

ABSTRACT:
A physical therapy apparatus for enabling proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation of a multi-axis body structure and having a shaft which rotates in controlled movement about an axis and a body engaging component for engaging an extremity of a patient's limb and which is coupled with said shaft for controlled movement of the component with the shaft through an arc of a circle while accommodating rotation of the component about an axis perpendicular to said shaft and translation of the component along an axis parallel to said shaft, the apparatus accomplishing movement of the patient's limb through a predetermined angular range.

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Cybex II Handbook, pp. 3 and 32-45, 1981.

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