Surgery: kinesitherapy – Kinesitherapy – Means for passive movement of disabled extremity to return...
Patent
1998-04-16
2000-09-26
Apley, Richard J.
Surgery: kinesitherapy
Kinesitherapy
Means for passive movement of disabled extremity to return...
602 35, 601 84, 601 86, 606242, 606243, A61H 100
Patent
active
061236802
ABSTRACT:
A centrifugal force device and method for treating neck and back pain associated with intervertebral disc disorders is described. The patient is secured to a table in vertical position with the table being oriented about its vertical axis so as to maximize the delivery of centrifugal force along an appropriate vector. The patient is then rotated about the vertical axis of the device in a speed and time duration controlled manner so as to subject the patient's spinal column to a predetermined level of centrifugal force. Under these conditions intervertebral discs and/or disc material pathologically displaced in a manner to cause the patient signs or symptoms will be forced away from the pathological positions within the spinal column toward a more desirable position as determined by an appropriate clinician. The table can be made with a top section movable upwards in relation to a fixed bottom section. A pulley and cable system and movable weights within the device cause the top section of the table to move upwards due to centrifugal force. Standard pelvic and occiput-chin harnesses attached to various parts of the table and/or patient and the pulley--cable--weight system permit adding lumbar-sacral or cervical traction forces simultaneously with centrifugal force to ameliorate disc derangements.
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Apley Richard J.
Yu Justine R.
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