Surgery – Truss – Perineal
Patent
1987-09-22
1989-08-22
Burr, Edgar S.
Surgery
Truss
Perineal
128 51, A61H 100
Patent
active
048585980
ABSTRACT:
A method for the prevention or alleviation of a condition of osteoporosis which includes the step of placing a patient in a standing position upon a platform at a first level and repeatedly raising the platform to a second level and causing it to drop to said first level, thereby imparting force to the bones of the subject standing upon the platform for strengthening of and growth-promotion in the same, and means for carrying out the said method, are disclosed.
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Burr Edgar S.
Hueschen Gordon W.
Lamb Tonya
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