Surgery: kinesitherapy – Kinesitherapy – Exercising appliance
Patent
1995-08-04
1998-05-05
Clark, Jeanne M.
Surgery: kinesitherapy
Kinesitherapy
Exercising appliance
601 5, 601 33, A61H 100
Patent
active
057467048
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus are provided for flexing a body member to rehabilitate the same. For early motion of flexure tendons or the like, very small ranges, for example, 2.degree. to 5.degree. of tension and flexion may be set at opposite ends of a full range of motion for the joint. The drive motor is preferably a stepper motor or the like that is controlled by a microprocessor-based controller to travel through small, variable, early motion ranges for tension and flexion of variable distances and for a variable number of cycles. The illustrated apparatus for pulling a carriage for travel in a forward or reverse direction compresses a slide guide for guiding the carriage for sliding travel thereon about a predetermined path having a curved portion about which the carriage slides when being pulled in a forward direction and in a reverse direction. A flexible tension member is associated with the slide guide and connected to the carriage to exert a pulling force on the carriage to cause it to slide in forward and reverse directions along the slide guide in the predetermined path having a curved portion. The drive is connected to the flexible tension member to exert a pull on the tension member to cause it to travel in either in a forward or reverse direction and to pull the carriage to slide on the slide guide in the same direction as the tension member is pulled
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Krevald Walter Richard
Schenck Robert R.
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