Abstract:
A surgical brace device for ambulatory treatment of the lower back of a patient includes a pair of spaced apart torso belt members joined together with jack screw connecting means for applying traction to the user between the pair of belts, and a pair of adjustably spaced lordosis pads mounted on the lower belt applies forward pressure on spaced apart back vertebrae.
Abstract:
A therapeutic manipulating machine including a padded patient supporting surface, having a centrally located rectangular opening, and a plurality of relatively rigid rollers in the form of a rotatable drum assembly mounted on a carriage biased upwardly into the rectangular opening to alternately press against portions of the patient''s body lying on the table, so as to apply an oscillating massaging and manipulating effect on the body. An arrangement is provided for varying the roller pressure, and each roller has a circumferential central groove provided for straddling the spinal column and applying the massaging and manipulating pressure and microimpacts to the areas on both sides of the spine. Means are arranged to move the carriage and roller drum in a reciprocating motion with respect to the rectangular opening and to maintain a relatively constant massaging and manipulating pressure against the body regardless of the changes in contour of the body.
Abstract:
The manipulating and massaging apparatus of a therapeutic manipulating machine for the human body extends into a longitudinal opening in the table whereon a patient lies. In operation, this manipulating and massaging apparatus moves back and forth in this opening to contact the patient''s body at predetermined pressures. This reciprocable movement may be substantially the length of the opening to permit the manipulating and massaging to extend from a patient''s hips to his shoulders. A lesser reciprocable movement, which is a selected increment within this overall range of movement, is effected by adjustable stops for the manipulating and massaging apparatus which act against limit switches carried by the reciprocating manipulating and massaging apparatus. When the limit switch on the apparatus contacts a stop, the drive of the apparatus reverses, to reverse its movement.