Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Skeletal traction applicator
Patent
1992-11-30
1994-03-01
Apley, Richard J.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Skeletal traction applicator
602 33, 5 831, 5 851, 601 35, A61F 500
Patent
active
052902196
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for exercising a bed-ridden patient includes a frame; a load movably supported by the frame and having a load attachment point for movably carrying a limb of the patient, the load including a wheeled carriage, the frame including a track for guiding the carriage; a drive for repetitively cycling the load in a carriage path relative to the frame and including a first crank driven by a motor, and a first connecting rod pivotally connected to the first crank for reciprocating the carriage along the track; a base for supportively anchoring the apparatus; a pivot for adjustably orienting the frame in a fixed position relative to the base, the pivot having a first position for horizontally orienting the track for lateral movement of the limb and a second position for vertically orienting the track for raising and lowering the limb; and a base plate, the frame being supported by the base plate, the lift attachment point being fixably located relative to the base plate, a clamp arm pivotally connected between the clamp and the base plate, and a clamp lock for fixably locating the clamp arm in a plurality of angular orientations relative to the base plate.
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Apley Richard J.
Mollo Jeanne
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