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Details
Inventors: Pohl, Jeff K.; Johnson, David A.; Dunlay, Edward R.;
Assignee: Chattanooga Group, Inc. (Hixson, TN)
Primary Examiner: Kamm; William E.
Assistant Examiner: Evanisko; George R.
Attorney, Agent or Firm:

A reconfigurable physical therapy apparatus and a method of providing operator-selected stimuli to a patient are provided. The apparatus preferably has a physical therapy applicator including a transducer for applying a therapeutic treatment to a patient, and a memory for storing identification data representative of a plurality of physical ailments for each of a plurality of human body areas and a set of transducer operational parameters associated with each predetermined physical ailment and each predetermined body area. The apparatus also has an ailment display screen responsive to the memory device for displaying at least one of the identification data representative of a plurality of physical ailments which are associated with at least one of the identified human body areas. An ailment selector is positioned in electrical communication with at least the memory device and being responsive to operator selection of one of the identified physical ailments which are associated with human body areas for obtaining the associated transducer operational parameters. The apparatus further has a transducer reconfigurer positioned in electrical communication with the transducer of the applicator and being responsive to the ailment selector for reconfiguring the transducer to provide therapeutic treatment to the identified body part according to the obtained transducer operational parameters.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION With the foregoing in mind, it is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a method and an apparatus for responsively reconfiguring a physical therapy apparatus based on predetermined physical ailments of a patient.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a method and an apparatus for reducing the number of specific operational parameters which an operator of a physical therapy apparatus must enter in order to configure a physical therapy apparatus.
It is a yet another object of the present invention to provide a reconfigurable physical therapy apparatus having an interactive user interface for selecting ailment protocols, treatment or application operational parameters associated with the protocol, and responsively reconfiguring the apparatus for the particular ailment desired to be therapeutically treated.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a computer-controlled physical therapy apparatus.
These and other objects are provided, according to the present invention, by a reconfigurable physical therapy apparatus including an interactive ailment-protocol selection interface for responsively configuring the physical therapy apparatus.
The interactive ailment-protocol selection interface preferably includes ailment storage means for storing identification data representative of at least one predetermined physical ailment for each of a plurality of human body parts and a corresponding set of transducer operational parameters associated with each predetermined physical ailment and each predetermined body part.
Each set of transducer operational parameters preferably defines the therapeutic treatment provided by the physical therapy apparatus to thereby treat the predetermined physical ailment with which the set of transducer operational parameters is associated.
The interactive ailment-protocol selection interface also includes a screen display for displaying at least one of said identification data representative of a plurality of physical ailments which are associated with at least one of the identified human body parts


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