Surgery: kinesitherapy – Kinesitherapy – Exercising appliance
Patent
1992-10-27
1994-10-04
Apley, Richard J.
Surgery: kinesitherapy
Kinesitherapy
Exercising appliance
601 31, 601 33, 482 79, A61H 100
Patent
active
053521854
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for exercising the upper and/or the lower joint of an ankle has a frame which can be placed on the floor or can be mounted on or in a bed and supports an adjustable first support of the lower leg of a patient. The first support movably carries a second support for the foot, and the second support can be moved relative to the first support by two discrete prime movers defining pivot axes one of which can be caused to coincide with the axis of the upper joint and the other of which can be caused to coincide with the axis of the lower joint of the ankle between the lower leg on the first support and the foot on the second support. The operation of each prime mover can be programmed, one of these prime movers can be mounted directly on the first support, and the other prime mover can be mounted on a yoke which is carried by the first support. The other prime mover is adjustable relative to or with the yoke in order to ensure that the apparatus can be used to exercise the ankle for the left foot or the ankle for the right foot.
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Blauth Walter
Knoll Ernst
Apley Richard J.
Ernst Knoll Feinmechanik
Mollo Jeanne M.
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