Surgery: kinesitherapy – Kinesitherapy – Exercising appliance
Patent
1996-10-08
1998-11-03
Clark, Jeanne M.
Surgery: kinesitherapy
Kinesitherapy
Exercising appliance
482 69, 602 32, 602 36, A61H 100
Patent
active
058301623
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to an apparatus for re-educating the posture of the backbone of an individual in all of the three plane of the space, i.e. frontal, sagittal, and transversal, thus avoiding the posture defects and all of the pathological consequences arising therefrom, under antigravity, dynamic conditions and through deambulation on a travelling band.
As known, the weight of the human body is supported by the skeleton, muscles, ligaments, and fasciae. The line representing that weight goes down from above along the backbone, bifurcates at the third lumbar vertebra, turns to the two opposite coxae (hip-joints), goes down along the lower limbs and goes up again by the same way until it rejoins at the centre of the pubic bone to form a closed loop of forces. However, skeleton is very seldom postured in a physiologically correct way so as to absorb the most of the weight of the human body. Actually men assume comfort postures or postural bad habits requiring the aid of supports constituted by muscular tensions, fasciae, and ligaments to restore the balance. Such "dynamic compensations" of a "static defect" become permanent in time such as to constitute a pseudo scheme of movement (the automatic total scheme of movements) that, even if it is not physiologically correct, becomes definitively functional, thus causing pathologic modifications in capsules, ligaments and joint surfaces and occurrences of aches and pains of different nature and intensity. The physiatrics is aware of such problem for some time so that several equipment have been manufactured to try to solve it. The latter, however, have never considered the "global problem", i.e. the functional and dynamic whole of the human body.
From FR-A-2 252 108 it is known an apparatus for re-education of the human backbone comprising means for carrying out differential traction at different levels, means for correcting the postural defects and for blocking the patient and means for allowing the patient to walk. However this apparatus does not permit both a diagnostics investigations of postural defects and a programmed treatment since there is no means of monitoring the orthostatic position of the patient. It is already known from the Biomedizinische Technik Vol. 32 October 1987, the possibility to control the weight resting on each patient's foot lying on a footboards to investigate the standing and walking motor control and to value neuromuscular diseases without the possibility of corrections.
The present invention seeks to overcome the limits of the existing apparatus and to provide an apparatus by which the correction of postural bad habits upstream of the several peripheral symptoms which can occur in different ways becomes total, permanent, spontaneous and directed in all of the three planes of the space. The inventive concept of the present invention is of providing an apparatus by which the patient can be subjected to differential tractions at different levels by cancelling out all or a part of his weight and effecting a number of successive corrections such as to force the patient to assume a correct posture in the frontal, sagittal, and transversal planes in static attitude, and by forcing the patient to keep such posture even in dynamic attitude, i.e. during the deambulation, until he reaches stably and definitively a new correct total scheme of movements, while keeping the orthostatic position of the patient under continuous monitoring.
According to the invention this can be achieved by continuously monitoring the weight resting on either patient's foot whose unbalance shows postural defects of the subject or alternately by detecting the displacements of reference points of the patient's body with respect to an ideal line.
Therefore, the present invention provides according to a first aspect thereof a diagnostic and therapeutic apparatus for re-educating the posture of the backbone which includes in combination means for measuring the orthostatic posture of the patient by measuring the weight resting on each patient's foot, means for
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