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Device for imparting continuous passive motion to human joints

Details

Inventors: Saringer, John H.;
Assignee: Imasco-CDC Research Foundation (Toronto, CA)
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A portable apparatus for imparting continuous passive motion to a human joint. A support is provided for harnessing to parts of the body at one side of the joint and conveyor means movable relative to the support is provided for connection to a part at the other side of the joint, so that the latter forms a link which is flexed as the conveyor means moves back and forth relative to the support. Drive means insures that a substantially continuous slow rhythmic reciprocating movement is applied to the joint.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION An apparatus, according to the invention, includes a support structure, usually a housing containing working parts.
Harness means mounts the support structure on the patient's body or, in an alternative arrangement, the support structure may be mounted on a crutch or bed.
Traveller means is carried by the housing for reciprocating movement relative to it and is connected to an extremity of the limb having the joint to be exercised so that the joint completes the linkage.
Motor means in the housing drives the traveller means back and forth through a predetermined stroke with a slow rhythmic motion.

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