Surgery – Truss – Perineal
Patent
1976-12-14
1978-07-25
Trapp, Lawrence W.
Surgery
Truss
Perineal
128 55, A61H 100
Patent
active
041023340
ABSTRACT:
A massage unit used for therapeutic purposes such as to loosen and mobilize bronchial secretions in humans; to improve blood circulation, and; to relax muscles, has a motor unit which transmits rotary motion to a cable engaged to an applicator unit. The applicator unit has a lower gripping portion which rotatably mounts an eccentric drive assembly which is drivingly coupled to the cable so as to be oscillated by cable rotation. An elbow-shaped tube extends upwardly and outwardly from the eccentric assembly so that an application pad mounted on the outer end of the elbow is moved in a circular path around an axis extending parallel to the surface of a patient's body and also parallel to the surface of an application pad, which allows the pad to impart a percussive and a directional massage stroke when it is applied to the body. The resultant force transmitted to the body has two components: one perpendicular to the body to loosen congestive material, and one force component parallel to the body to mobilize congested material in a selected direction.
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