Truck, stabilization device for exercising/testing hip abduction

Details Truck, stabilization device for exercising/testing hip abduction Truck, stabilization device for exercising/testing hip abduction

1986-02-14

1988-03-22

Apley, Richard J.

Undertaking

272134, 272144, A63B 2100

Patent

active

047323795

ABSTRACT:
A trunk stabilization device permits a standing user/subject to exercise and test hip abduction, adduction, flexion and extension with a conventional muscle exercise and testing machine such as the Cybex II system. A T-bar includes a vertical stem and two adjacent horizontal cross pieces. The stem is secured to the torque transducer unit associated with the machine such that the cross pieces extend horizontally and parallel to the torque axis of the transducer at a location between the transducer and the system support frame. A truck pad, preferably provided as part of the basic machine, is alternatively mountable in two mutually perpendicular and vertical orientations at an end of the cross piece. In one orientation the truck supporting surface is parallel to the torque axis; in the other orientation the axis and trunk supporting surface are mutually perpendicular. In the first orientation, the user, by bracing his/her trunk against the pad, is able to test/exercise hip flexion and extension by pushing/pulling on the transducer actuator with the front of his/her thigh. In the second orientation, the user is able to exercise/test hip abduction/adduction by pushing/pulling with the outside of the thigh in contact with the actuator.

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"Isolated-Joint Testing & Exercise . . . A Handbook for Using Cybex II and the U.B.X.T .TM.", Cybex, 2100 Smithtown Ave., Ronkonkoma, N.Y., 11779, 1980.

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