BR202016023783U2 - STABILIZER FOR STATIC POSTURE WITH CAPABILITY TO VIBRATE BY MEANING OF SOUND WAVES - Google Patents

Abstract

It is a stabilizer for static posture comprising a foot support and a vertical frame in which the patient's body is at rest and is restricted characterized by the fact that said foot support comprises an electric transducer capable of generating vibrations in the body. said platform and said vertical frame starting with an audio signal coming from an external source.

Description

"STABILIZER FOR STABLE POSITION WITH VIBRATING CAPABILITY" [0001] The present patent application for the industrial invention relates to a static posture stabilizer capable of vibrating by sound waves.

As is well known, individuals who are unable to maintain a general upright posture make use of an aid commonly known as a stabilizer, which is intended to support them with a dual function: [0003] - practicing and acquiring a autonomous upright posture [0004] - maintaining the upright posture with bipodal load as an alternative to the independent posture that would otherwise be impossible.

[0005] The stabilizer enables disabled patients to maintain upright posture with complete safety (by means of supports that support them) by stabilizing three fundamental points of the body: [0006] - feet, which rest on an adjustable foot support to ensure better foot support;

[0007] - knees, resting on adjustable supports that can be adjusted according to different patient requirements and features, preventing joints from collapsing;

[0008] - Pelvis trunk, which is supported by corresponding supports that can generally be adjusted for height, width, depth and rotation, allowing patients to maintain a secure position and a more correct posture.

By ensuring stability at these three points of the body, the patient can maintain an upright and secure vertical posture without any further help.

As is known, additional stabilizers are hampered by a severe disadvantage, which is poor patient acceptance of the stabilizer, which often refuses to use it.

In particular, this is caused by the fact that a typical stabilizer is equipped with systems used to secure the patient's body that limits the user's freedom of movement in such a way as to become intolerable. This is specifically true for young children who do not accept similar restrictions at a time in their lives when they are inclined to “explore” the surrounding space and have a lesser ability to adapt to forced positions.

A typical stabilizer comprises a foot support above which a vertical frame is mounted to secure the patient against it after stepping on the foot support. Such a frame is composed of columns between which crosspieces are arranged at different heights, with the possibility of adjusting the height, and provided with means used to restrict the patient's body at the height of his feet, knees, pelvic area and thoracic area. Therefore, it is easy to understand the sense of restraint perceived by the user of a similar device and, above all, the impatience suffered by children in the event of such heavy limitation of their motor skills.

Careful examination of the prior art and its specific disadvantage has resulted in the stabilizer of the invention, which remedies the above problem, making the permanence of children more tolerable under said stabilizer restriction condition.

The inventive idea of the present invention is to provide the stabilizer of the invention with a foot support that has the ability to vibrate to the music rhythm, transmitting the vibrations also to the vertical frame in which the patient is resting and positioned. In particular, such vibrations are transmitted to the footrest by a device capable of generating the vibrations when it receives an audio signal from an external source.

Vibrations transmitted to the stabilizer's vertical frame are also transmitted to the patient's limbs that are attached to the frame, creating a pleasant induced stimulus reflex that is especially useful for distracting children's attention from their restricted condition, thus making them stay in the most tolerable stabilizer.

Additional features of the invention will become more apparent with reference to the accompanying drawings, which have only a non-limiting illustrative purpose, in which: Figure 1 is an axonometric view of the stabilizer of the present invention;

Figures 2 and 3 are respectively a side view and a rear view of the stabilizer of Figure 1.

Referring to the above Figures, the stabilizer of the invention (S) is formed by the following parts: a substantially square foot support (1) mounted on four swiveling wheels (11) for moving the stabilizer (S) easily;

[0021] - a frame (2) which projects vertically from the foot support (1) and supports means in which the patient's body is at rest and fixed.

The frame (2) may be made of metal. The frame (2) comprises two columns (3) fixed in proximity to the side edges (1a) of the foot support (1). Each column (3) comprises three cylindrical tubes (3a, 3b, 3c) aligned in a substantially parallel position with respect to the lateral edge (1a) of the foot support.

The three cylindrical tubes comprise: a first cylindrical tube (3a) which is closest to the front edge (1 b) of the foot support (1), a second cylindrical tube (3b) which has the same height as the first cylindrical tube and is arranged in the rearward position with respect to the first cylindrical tube (3a) - a third cylindrical tube (3c) which has a height higher than the second cylindrical tube (3b) and is arranged in the rearward position with respect to the second cylindrical tube.

[0027] The first two cylindrical tubes (3a) are designed to slidingly receive vertical rods from a first portal-like structure (4) provided with an intermediate crosspiece to be used to secure a first padded plate (5) intended for to be interrupted in the patient's lumbar area at the stabilizer (S).

The ability of the first portal-like structure (4) to slide vertically relative to the first two cylindrical tubes (3a) is provided to adjust the height of the first padded plate (5) to the patient's height using the stabilizer (s) from time to time.

[0029] The two second tubes (3b) and the two third tubes (3c) of the columns (3) are designed to slidably receive the vertical sections of a second portal-like structure (6). Each vertical section of the second portal-like structure (6) is formed by a parallel pair of rods (6 ', 6 ”) which are joined together and intended to be inserted into the second cylindrical tube (3b) and the third cylindrical tube ( 3c). The pair of rods comprises a first rod (6 ') intended to be inserted into the corresponding second cylindrical tube (3b) and a second rod (6 ”) intended to be inserted into the third cylindrical rod (3c).

The first two rods (6 ') are connected at the top by a crosspiece (6b) supporting a second plate (7) intended to be interrupted in the patient's scapular area.

[0031] Two horizontal telescopic arms (8a) are attached to the top of the two second rods (6 ”) that extend toward the rear edge (1c) of the footrest (1). The horizontal telescopic arms (8a) support a shoulder (8) that can be used to support the patient's objects as well as let patients rest their arms.

Alternating sliding of the two vertical sections of the second portal-like structure (6) allows the operating height of the second padded plate (7) to be adjusted to the patient's height using the stabilizer (S) from time to time.

The two padded plates (6, 7) are provided with corresponding straps (not shown in the attached Figures) designed to firmly wrap the patient's trunk and hold it in the desired vertical posture.

A third crosspiece (9) is slidably fixed between the columns (3) of the stabilizer frame (2). The third crosspiece (9) is located at the rear of the two columns (3), ie towards the rear edge (1c) of the footrest (1).

Two padded seats (12) are mounted on the third crosspiece (9), which is intended to receive the patient's knees in the footrest (1). Exact insertion of the patient's knees into the seats (12) is only possible if said crosspiece (9) is fixed at a height suitable for the patient's height.

A fourth cross piece (10) is mounted on the opposite side of the two columns (3), ie towards the front edge (1 b) of the foot support (1). The fourth crosspiece (10) is disposed above the surface of the foot support (1). The function of the fourth crosspiece (10) is to horizontally support two C-shaped supports (13) which are mounted with the concavity facing the rear edge (1c) of the foot support (1). The function of said supports (13) is to receive and firmly wrap the back of the patient's shoes in the stabilizer (S). The patient's knee seats (12) and the patient's shoe supports (13) are additional stabilizer restraints (S) relative to a patient's body that is held in an upright posture.

The footrest (1) is associated with a device (14) used to broadcast sounds, or in any case sound waves, which is intended to transmit vibrations to the footrest (1) as well as the frame. (2) arranged above the foot support.

According to the preferred embodiment shown in the accompanying figures, the device 14 comprises at least one audio transducer or a speaker for transmitting vibrations according to an audio type electrical signal sent to the transducer. In such a case, if the audio signal is a piece of music, the audio transducer generates different vibrations according to the different intensity and peculiarity of the musical instruments used in the piece of music being played. The audio transducer is mounted under the foot stand (1) and is connected to an audio source arranged outside the stabilizer. An amplifier may be arranged between the audio source and the audio transducer.

The final effect is the transmission of the vibrations produced by the sound waves of the audio transducer also to the frame (2) mounted on the footrest (1) and, consequently, also to the patient's body restricted to the metal frame which receives it. some significant benefits.

Using an amplifier connected to an audio source composed of a sound system capable of playing an audio file, audio transducer operation is activated, sound waves are emitted and vibrations are generated and transmitted by the audio transducer to the footrest (1) and frame (2). The patient's body, which receives the vibrations of the stabilizer (S), becomes a kind of resonance box such that, instead of being perceived as intolerable instruments of physical restraint, the means used to keep the patient strictly connected to the body. frame (2) become a vehicle of pleasant body stimuli that are generated by propagating sound waves and vibrations.

It has been proven that music and the vibrations generated by music always capture children's attention, unlike other sensory stimuli, such as visual ones. In addition, the brain works best in coordination with music that stimulates the rhythmic areas of the brain, motor responses and reflexes. In addition, some connections exist in the brain between music and language.

Therefore, it can be stated that, through the sensory stimulus transmitted by its structure to the patient and through the motivational power of music, the stabilizer (S) according to the invention has the capacity to increase significantly: [0043] children's active participation in therapeutic exercises with their therapist - children's participation in recreational activities with family members or colleagues (for example, while watching a movie, using a video game, listening to a story or music) - the mental health of children as well as parents, allowing them to share a positive experience with disabled children.

The stabilizer (S) guarantees: A. Aid acceptance also for less reactive and less collaborative children.

B. an addition of all therapeutic aspects that are typical of a traditional stabilizer. C. an increase in the number of stimuli perceived by the user: a stimulus of the child's neurovegetative, sensory, and emotional system. [0050] a stimulus of a neuromotor and neurosensory response in the patient (eg hypotonic, hypertonic or blind children or children with sensory deficits, etc.).

[0051] The stabilizer of the invention (S) significantly changes the relationship between the static posture aid and the patient's posture relative to the known stabilizer concept: [0052] - converting the fully passive aid to active [0053] - rendering the use of a stabilizer an enjoyable fun time [0054] - improving children's relationship with parents and peers [0055] - increasing the possibilities for psycho-cognitive development and autonomy [0056] - limiting the onset of additional secondary complications (ulcers) , kyphosis, and spinal deformity) that can typically occur over time when the stabilizer is not used at an early age.

Claims (6)

1. Static posture stabilizer Characterized by the fact that it comprises: -a ground stabilizing foot support (1) with swiveling wheels (11), and - a frame (2) intended to support a patient in the vertical position and provided with height adjustable means (5, 7, 12, 13) in which the patient's body must rest and be firmly restrained, wherein said foot support (1) comprises a device (14) for generating vibrations of an audio signal coming from an audio source so that the stand (1) and stabilizer frame (2) are vibrated. Static posture stabilizer according to claim 1, characterized in that said vibration generating device (14) consists of at least one audio transducer. Static posture stabilizer according to claim 1, characterized in that said vibration generating device (14) consists of a speaker. Static posture stabilizer according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that: - the frame (2) comprises two opposing columns (3) arranged close to the side edges (1a) of the foot support (1). 1), - said height adjustable means (5, 7, 12, 13) on which the patient's body is to rest and be restrained are slidably mounted between said two columns (3), with the possibility of being interrupted at the desired height according to the patient's height. Static posture stabilizer according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said height-adjustable means on which the patient's body is to rest and be restrained comprises: - a first padded plate (5) provided with a strap is fixed in the center of a crosspiece of a first portal-like structure (4) which slides vertically relative to two tubes (3a) of the columns (3) of said vertical frame (2), wherein said first plate (5) is intended to be interrupted in the patient's lumbar area, - a second padded plate (7) provided with a strap and fixed in the center of a crosspiece of a second portal-like structure (6) which slides vertically relative to a pair of tubes (3b) of said columns (3) of said vertical frame (2), wherein said second plate (7) is intended to be interrupted in the patient's scapular area, - a pair of padded seats (12) fixed to a third A crosspiece (3) sliding vertically along said columns (3) of said vertical frame (2), wherein said padded seats (12) are intended to receive the patient's knees exactly, and - a pair of supports C-shaped horizontal sections (13) attached to a fourth crosspiece (10) disposed between said columns (3) of said vertical frame (2), wherein said supports (13) are mounted with concavities facing said pair of past seats (12) and are intended to receive the exact back of the patient's sneakers. Static posture stabilizer according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that said second portal-like structure (6) is joined to a pair of telescopic horizontal arms (8a) for supporting a shoulder (8). opposite to said second padded plate (7).