Surgery: kinesitherapy – Kinesitherapy – Exercising appliance
Patent
1993-07-30
1995-10-10
Hafer, Robert A.
Surgery: kinesitherapy
Kinesitherapy
Exercising appliance
5 811, 5 861, 128846, 212316, A61H 102
Patent
active
054566550
ABSTRACT:
An ambulatory support system for providing support for a patient. The support system includes an overhead system which allows a support carrier to travel within its confines so that it may be located above a patient at any time. The support system supplies a passive fall interruption device which restrain freefalling of a patient. The restraint system allows a patient, once falling, to be lowered slowly to the ground. In addition, the overhead support system of the present invention provides an accessory mount in which folding tables, IVs, monitors, and the like may be suspended from the ceiling and may be moved anywhere in the region underneath the overhead system.
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"New Falls Intervention Strategies and Rehabilitative Systems", by Triangle Research and Development Corporation (TRDC), North Carolina, Oct. 1991.
Hafer Robert A.
Kenealy David J.
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