Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Skeletal traction applicator
Patent
1997-07-16
1999-06-29
Apley, Richard J.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Skeletal traction applicator
602 19, A61F 500
Patent
active
059161884
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to a device for a stretch corset and a neck stretcher in order to stretch out the spine of a patient in connection with back and/or neck sufferings, and where two opposing belts or the like positioned beneath the arms of the patient and within the hip area, respectively --with neck damages--where opposing yoke on the shoulders and head support become supported against each other by means of adjustable, possibly resilient means at each side of the patient.
In order to reduce a patient's back pains and/or neck pains and, possibly, cure damages in the back and/or the neck, it is known to stretch out the spine of the patient by means of a stretching device fixed to the patient. Such stretch devices where opposing belt or the like positioned below the arms of the patient and within the hip area, respectively upon neck damages--where opposing yoke on the shoulders and head support are supported against each other by means of adjustable, possibly resilient means, e.g. by disposing spiral springs within cylinders, are previously disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,886,031, 3,029,810, 3, 413,971, 4,245,627, 4,250,874, 4,715,362 and 4,987,885.
The stretch device closest to the present invention is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,413,971, dealing with a training apparatus in the form of an orthopaedic stretching apparatus which is not designed with a view of being carried permanently by a patient having back and neck sufferings, but can exclusively be used for training purposes. This training apparatus comprises interconnected and, thus, communicating pressure fluid operated piston cylinders. The object of these communicating cylinders is to secure mutually equal tensile strain on each side of back and/or neck.
With a stretch corset and a neck stretcher of the kind with which the present invention deals, it is intended to allow lateral bending of the back, head and neck of the patient. A great disadvantage of the other known devices of this kind is that they, to a very high degree, hamper the patient's movements of the spine.
The object of this invention is to provide a device for a stretch corset and neck support, causing that the patient is not hampered in his/her movements of spine/head
eck.
Two examplary embodiments of the invention are shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 shows a stretch corset in a front view, fastened on a patient standing in a straight position;
FIG. 2 shows the same as FIG. 1, but here the patient occupies a laterally bent position;
FIG. 3 shows the stretch corset as seen in perspective from one side thereof;
FIG. 4 shows a neck stretcher as seen in a side elevational view, fastened on a patient;
FIG. 5 shows in a front view the same as FIG. 4, but here the patient has bent the head laterally.
In FIGS. 1 and 2 of the drawings, reference numeral 1 denotes a patient has a stretch corset 2 fastened thereon. This corset comprises a breast belt 3, a hip belt 4, a pneumatic cylinder 5, 6 at either side, communicating freely with each other through a hose 7. A manual pump 8 is connected to cylinder 5 for pumping pressurized air into the cylinders 5 and 6. A manometer 9 has been connected to cylinder 6. A valve 10 is connected to one of the cylinders 5, 6 for letting air out. The breast belt 3 and the hip belt 4 are articulated creating articulation means 11, 12 in the mid-region at the rear side, in order to give a good adaption and mobility for the patient and has, at the front side, a buckle device 13, 14.
In each end thereof, the pneumatic cylinders 5, 6 are each equipped with a hook 15 engaging into a hole 16 of a horizontal row of holes in a rigid portion 17 at each and every side of of the breast belt 3 and the hip belt 4 and, thus, forming two adjustable connections between the breast belt 3 and the hip belt 4.
The patient may well fasten on the stretch corset 2 and inflate the same by means of the manual pump 8, so that the spine is subjected to an adequate tensile force. If the latter has become too large, air may be let out through the valve 10. With the stre
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Apley Richard J.
Pothier Denise
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