KR100469862B1 - Auto flexion-traction machine for physiotherapy - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is used for orthodontic treatment for treating or correcting various diseases related to the spine by flexing or flexing the human body in a specific direction by flexion or static relaxation or dynamic relaxation and contraction of a specific part of the spine. Relates to a traction device.

The traction device for chiropractic according to the present invention includes a head seat composed of a pair of left and right seats, an upper body sheet behind the head sheet, a lower body sheet disposed behind the head sheet, and a driving device including a driving motor. In the traction device for chiropractic configured to relax or tow the human body by rotating the lower body sheet in the vertical direction by the support means for reciprocating in the vertical direction by the drive device, the lower body sheet is hinged to the support, respectively And a pair of left and right lower body seats supported by the left and right support members respectively connected to the driving device in a secured state and configured to move up and down by the driving device. Orthodontic traction device can be used for relaxation or joint movement with the difference in left and right relaxation degree of human body. It may be.

Description

Chiropractic Traction Unit {AUTO FLEXION-TRACTION MACHINE FOR PHYSIOTHERAPY}

The present invention relates to a traction device for orthodontics, which is used to treat or correct various spinal diseases or abnormal conditions such as lumbar discs, neck discs, or spinal curvature by physical therapy other than medication or surgery. For orthodontic treatment to cure or correct various diseases related to the spine by flexing or relaxing in a specific direction to statically relax a specific part of the human body or flexional motion dynamically. Relates to a traction device.

Physical therapy (Physiotherapy) is a physical method using materials such as electricity, light, water, air, sound, and various instruments, rather than surgery and therapies (drug therapy) to alleviate pain or to correct abnormal anatomical conditions. As a conservative treatment method to hold, especially in the treatment of most spinal diseases associated with pain in the vertebral joints and muscles that cause pain in the musculoskeletal system of the spine or limbs, flexion of the body to relax or Physiotherapy of the spine by extending one side of the human body to the other (Traction), extending the intervertebral spacing by stretching between the vertebrae and the vertebrae, between the joints and joints, or the skin. Therapy is primarily preferred. Such physiotherapy can improve or cure most diseases related to the spine such as scoliosis, sciatica, vertebral discs, degenerative arthritis, spinal sprains, spinal stenosis, spondylitis, but especially the nucleus between the vertebrae and the vertebrae In the case of disc herniation, usually called disc, which is caused by escape and compression of the nerve root, a conservative therapy that can fundamentally heal the causes of nerve root compression by holding the nucleus of the protruding spine back to its normal position. It is also treated more importantly. In practice, there have been many reports of successful cure of intervertebral disc prolapse through chiropractic physiotherapy.

Chiropractic physiotherapy methods are divided into manual traction by physical therapists and specially designed vertebral traction devices, namely auto-traction using a traction bed. Although the traction can be adjusted freely according to the patient's reaction and situation, it can only be performed by an experienced physiotherapist because the traction, traction cycle, or traction time is dependent on the experience of the physical therapist. There was this. For this reason, in spite of the rigidity of the traction force, the traction cycle, and the traction time adjustment, the automatic towing treatment method using the auto flexion-traction machine is mainly used.

The traction device shown in FIG. 1 is a representative conventional chiropractic traction device that has been widely used in physiotherapeutic treatment to date.

As shown, the conventional chiropractic traction device is configured as a bed type to receive a traction physiotherapy for chiropractic in the patient lying down base (1), the support is fixed to the center of the base (1) (2), the support (3) is fixed to the front of the support (2) inclined upward, the head seat (4) is hingedly fixed to the front of the support (3), the rear of the head sheet (4) Drive device (reference numerals 11, 12, 13 of FIG. 2) including the upper body sheet (5) hinged to the holder (3), drive motor (11) embedded in the base (1), the support (2) It comprises a lower seat 6 having an ankle seat 7 which is supported by the support member 10 connected to the driving device in a hinged state at the rear of the top and which can fix the ankle at the end thereof.

In this configuration, the supporting members 8, 9, and 10 supporting the respective seats 4, 5, and 7 are a kind of shock absorber consisting of a piston rod and a cylinder, and a gas type shock absorber capable of adjusting the length thereof. (Gas spring), to cushion the shock generated when the patient is up and lying down, and also to allow the angle adjustment of each sheet (4, 5, 7) as shown in FIG. In addition, the head sheet 4 and the upper body sheet 5 coupled to the fixing table 3 are left and right by means of the fixing table 3 hinged to the left and right directions with respect to the support 2 for fixing and supporting them. The angle is adjustable in the right direction. In addition, in the case of the lower body sheet 6, the ankle seat 7 is coupled to the lower body sheet 6 so as to be movable in the longitudinal direction, and the overall length can be adjusted according to the height of the patient. The lower end of the member 10 is coupled to the cam 13 coupled to the drive shaft of the drive motor 11, so that the drive motor 11 is driven by a power applied under the control of a controller (not shown). It is comprised so that the front-end part of the support stand 2 side can rotate to an up-down direction on an axis.

According to the configuration described above, the conventional chiropractic traction device according to the state of the spine of the head and the left and right angles with respect to the lower body sheet 6 of the head sheet 4 and the upper body sheet 5 and each sheet (4, 5, 7) By adjusting the up and down angle of the body), it is possible to selectively relax the disease-producing region such as neck, shoulder, or waist by forcing the lateral curve or the front and rear curve of the human body. In addition, the lower body sheet 6 that can be adjusted in the vertical direction and can be rotated up and down by the drive motor 11 to rotate the lower body sheet 6 in the vertical state in the horizontal state or curved state. In addition, by forcing the spinal curve movement, that is, the joint relaxation motion, the spinal relaxation and flexional motion can be performed in parallel to effectively treat various diseases caused by spinal abnormalities.

However, in the conventional chiropractic traction device as described above, the lower body sheet 6 is composed of a single sheet so that the left and right side relaxation of the human body is equalized only when the human body is statically curved or dynamically curved. If the diseased area is biased to either side, such as the Hernia of intervertebral discs, usually called the lumbar intervertebral disc, which is escaped by biasing in one direction, it relaxes the unnecessary part of the joint. Slow healing and severe cases had the problem of causing side effects in areas other than the lesion.

In addition, the conventional traction device for chiropractic is configured to only allow the relaxation and joint relaxation movement biased in a way to bend the human body in a specific direction, for example, muscles and joints such as sprains, upper left, fractures In the case of physical therapy for a disease in which the lesion site is not removed to one side, such as a disease that is shortened only in the direction (長軸 方向), the same problem as described above was caused.

Accordingly, the present invention solves the problems of the conventional vertebral traction device as described above, by bending the human body in a specific direction according to the spinal disease site to relax or relax only a specific area of the spine (flexion) In addition, the body may have a flxional motion, and may have a relaxation or joint relaxation motion with a difference in the left and right flexion ratio or phase of the human body. To provide a traction device for chiropractic that can also do traction (Traction).

1 is a perspective view of a conventional chiropractic traction device.

Figure 2 is an operation of the conventional chiropractic traction device.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4 is a plan view of the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 5 is an operation showing the angle adjustment state of each sheet of the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 6a is a relaxation operation of the lower seat adjusted lower body of the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 6b is a relaxation motion operation of the lower body seat adjusted upward of the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 7 is a relaxation operation of the left, right lower body sheet having a phase difference in the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a configuration of the lower body seat traction mechanism of the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 9 is a plan view of the driving device of the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 10 is a side view of the driving device of the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 11 is a front view of the operation panel of the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 12 is a graph showing an example of the left, right lower body seat (60, 61) operation of the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Description of Symbols for Main Parts of Drawings>

1 Base 2 Support

3: fixed base 4: tofu sheet

5: upper body sheet 6: lower body sheet

7: ankle seat 8, 9, 10: support member

11: drive motor 12: reducer

15: position detection sensor 16: operation panel

60, 61: left and right lower body sheets 100, 101: left and right support members

130,131: left and right cam 140,141: left and right clutch

600: frame 601: transfer frame

602: transfer motor 603, 604: position detection sensor

The present invention is a base, a support that is built up and fixed on the base, a support that is fixed inclined upwardly forward in the middle of the support, coupled in parallel to the front end of the support in front of the support and supported by the support by the support means A head sheet consisting of a pair of left and right seats, the upper body sheet coupled to the front end of the fixing unit at the rear of the head sheet and supported by the holding unit by the support means, the driving device installed on the base, the support unit In the traction device for chiropractic comprising a lower body seat which is supported to move up and down by the support means reciprocating in the vertical direction by the drive device in the state hinged to the upper end of the support from the rear, Lower body sheets are hinged to each of the supports It is characterized by consisting of a pair of left and right lower body seats which are supported by the left and right support members, which are respectively connected to the driving device in a state, and are lifted and moved by the driving device.

In the configuration as described above, the drive device is an electric motor installed in the base, a reducer for distributing the power of the electric motor to the left and right by adjusting its rotational speed, and outputting the reducer distributed to the left and right Left and right clutches intermittent each power according to a predetermined electric signal, and a lower end portion of the support member hinged to a position away from the center of rotation while rotating with power output through the left and right clutches. It comprises a cam mechanism for causing the support member to move up and down.

The support means for supporting the head sheet, the support means for supporting the upper body sheet, and the left and right support members for supporting the left and right half portions of the lower body sheet, respectively, are adjustable in length and absorb vibration or shock. It is preferable that it is a buffer which can buffer.

In addition, the left and right lower body sheets of the lower body sheet, respectively, the front end portion of the frame hinged to the support, the transfer motor is installed on the front side of the frame, so as to reciprocate in the longitudinal direction of the frame on the frame It is installed and the front end portion is coupled to the drive shaft of the transfer motor by a forward and reverse drive of the transfer motor comprises a moving frame for reciprocating longitudinally with the left and right lower body seat portion coupled to the upper surface Preferably, the transfer motor is configured to repeatedly perform relaxation and contraction on the lower body while reciprocating in the longitudinal direction.

On the other hand, according to a preferred feature of the present invention, the base, the support is built up and fixed on the base, the support is fixed inclined upward toward the front in the middle of the support, coupled side by side in front of the front end of the support and the support by the support means A head seat supported against the head, an upper body seat coupled to the rear end of the support and supported by the support by the support means, a drive unit installed in the base, and a rear end hinged to an upper end of the support. In the traction device for chiropractic, comprising a lower body sheet supported by the driving means for reciprocating upward and downward by the driving device, and configured to move up and down by the driving device, wherein the lower seat has a front end portion thereof. Frame hinged to the support, on the front end of the frame And a lower seat portion which is installed to reciprocate in the longitudinal direction of the frame on the frame and whose front end portion is screwed to the drive shaft of the transfer motor, and which is coupled to the upper surface by forward and reverse driving of the transfer motor. It comprises a moving frame reciprocating in the longitudinal direction together, characterized in that configured to repeatedly perform the relaxation and contraction for the lower body while reciprocating in the longitudinal direction by the transfer motor.

Hereinafter, the configuration and operation of the chiropractic traction device according to the present invention through the preferred embodiments of the accompanying drawings in more detail.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 4 is a side view thereof.

As shown, the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention, the base (1), the support (2) standing on the base, is fixed inclined upward in front of the middle portion of the support (2) Head (4) consisting of a pair of left and right seats (40, 41) coupled side by side in front of the front end of the stator (3), upper body sheet coupled to the rear end of the stator (3) 5), the lower body sheet 6 composed of left and right lower body sheets 60 and 61 coupled to the upper back of the support 2, and support means for supporting and supporting the bottom surfaces of the sheets 4, 5 and 7; The supporting members 8, 9, 10, and the drive device for rotating the lower seat 6 in the vertical direction are constituted.

In the configuration as described above, the head sheet 4 and the upper body sheet 5 is shown in Figure 3 is rotatably coupled in the left and right directions with respect to the support (2) that they are hinged at the same time As described above, the angle is arbitrarily adjusted in the left and right horizontal directions with respect to the lower body sheet 6. In addition, each of the left and right lower body sheets 60 and 61 constituting the head sheet 4, the upper body sheet 5, and the lower body sheet 6, as shown in FIG. Supported by support members 100 and 101 such as adjustable gas springs or hydraulic shock absorbers, the lower seats 4, 5, It cushions with the cushion layers of 60 and 61, and the front and rear inclination angles are adjusted by the length adjustment of each support member 100 and 101, thereby forming a bend on each surface thereof. Accordingly, the human body may be statically curved to relax or contract a specific part.

Meanwhile, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 7, in the case of the lower body sheet 6, the left and right lower body sheets 60 and 61 supported by the left and right support members 100 and 101 are respectively formed. Each of the right lower body sheets 60 and 61 is dynamically connected to both sides of the drive motor 11 of the driving device, so that the left and right sides (left and right lower body sheets 60 and 61) are bounded by the center. It can be configured to be adjusted at different inclination angles, and is also configured to be able to rotate up and down independently of each other by the drive device. Thus, by adjusting the inclination angle of the left and right lower body sheets 60 and 61 differently, the human body may be relaxed by varying the left and right relaxation degrees. 6A and 6B, the driving motor 11 is driven in parallel with the relaxation of the human body in the upward or downward direction using the left and right lower body sheets 60 and 61, and the left and right lower body sheets ( 60, 61) by rotating the body up and down at the same time can relax the body. In addition, as shown in FIG. 7, the left and right clutches 140 and 141 are intermittent and the upper and lower rotation periods of the left and right lower body sheets 60 and 61 or the upper and lower dead center holding times are different. In a state in which the human body is relaxed with the left and right sides differentially, the human body may be relaxed in the joint with a difference in phase or relaxation duration (time remaining in the upper and lower dead centers) on the left and right sides (see the graph of FIG. 12). These left and right lower body sheets 60 and 61 also have a front end of the frame 400 on a rectangular frame 400 hinged to the support 2, respectively, as shown in FIG. 8. It is fixed on the moving frame 601 which is installed to be reciprocated in the longitudinal direction while being screwed to the drive shaft 602a of the fixed forward / reversely rotatable feed motor 602, so that the top of the moving frame 601 , With the moving frame 601 by the transfer motor 602 is rotated by the control of a control unit (not shown) according to the signal of the position detection sensors (603, 604) installed at a position corresponding to the bottom dead center. It is configured to reciprocate forward and backward along the frame 600. Thus, the transfer motor 602 can be repeatedly performed to relax and contract the joints between the upper body and lower body while reciprocating in the longitudinal direction. In this case, by controlling the movement motors 602 of the seats 60 and 61 as the detection signals to the position detection sensors 603 and 604, the left and right sides of the human body may be repeatedly towed with a difference in phase or traction duration. .

As shown in FIGS. 7 and 9 and 10, an electric motor 11 installed in the base 1 and a speed reducer for distributing power to the electric motor 11 to the left and right by adjusting the rotation speed are output. Left and right clutches 140 and 141, which are connected to the left and right sides of the reducer, are left and right coupled to the left and right clutches 140 and 141, respectively, and support the left and right lower body seats 60 and 61 at their respective ends. The right support members 100 and 101 are coupled to the left and right cams 130 and 131, respectively. Such a driving device distributes the power of the electric motor 11 driven by a power source applied according to a control signal of a controller (not shown) to the left and right by reducing the speed through a speed reducer and controls the output of the controller. The left and right support members 100 and 101 coupled to the respective cams 130 and 131 are rotated by transmitting the left and right cams 130 and 131 through the left and right clutches 140 and 141 which control the power as signals. The crank motion causes the left and right lower body sheets 60 and 61 to rotate in the up and down directions, respectively. In such an operation process, the left and right clutches 140 and 141 receive signals from the cam detection sensors 15 and 15 above and below the left and right cams 130 and 131 by a power applied by a controller (not shown). It selectively operates to interrupt the power of the speed reducer transmitted to each of the cams 130 and 131, thereby adjusting the phase and period of the left and right lower body sheets 60 and 61.

11 shows an operation panel 16 that is attached to control the operation of the driving device for rotating the left and right lower body sheets 60 and 61 up and down and the transfer motor 602 for moving forward and backward in the longitudinal direction. . As shown in the drawing, the operation panel 16 includes a power switch 160 for turning on / off the main power, and applying power to any one of the driving motor 11 and the transfer motor 602, and the bending motion mode F. The operation of the mode selection switch 161 and the left and right lower body seats 60 and 61, which are operated in any one of the towing modes T, is turned on and off, respectively, to thereby determine the initial positions of the two seats 60 and 61. A pair of clutch switches 162 to enable setting, timers 163 and 164 for adjusting the time each seat 60 and 61 stays at top dead center or bottom dead center, and left and right lower body seats 60 and 61 Operation number setting switch 165 and the like for setting the number of times of lifting and lowering are provided. Each of these switches 160, 161, 162, 163, 164 is connected to the control circuit of the controller so that a controller (not shown) can realize the operation of each mode according to the switch selection. Accordingly, the user can control all operations of the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention by manipulating each switch of the operation panel 16. The operation panel 16 may be installed at one side of the base 1 or the support 2 or the specific seats 4, 5, and 7 and may be manufactured in a remote control form by separating it from the chiropractic traction device for remote operation. have.

12 is a graph showing an example of the left and right lower body sheets (60, 61) operation of the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention. The operation of the left and right lower body seats 60 and 61 is set by the clutch switch 162 and the timer 163. In this mode, each movement cycle (flexion or forward and backward movement cycle) of the left and right lower body seats 60 and 61 is set to 8 seconds, and the left lower body seat 60 has a top dead center. At 2 seconds, the bottom dead center was set to maintain a 3 seconds stopped state, the right lower body sheet 61 is set to stop for 3 seconds at the top dead center for 2 seconds. As such, the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention freely adjusts the movement period and stop time of the left and right lower body sheets 60 and 61 of the left and right lower body sheets 60 and 61 as necessary. It is configured to be.

According to the configuration as described above the traction device for chiropractic according to an embodiment of the present invention, the head is forcibly adjusted to the human body by the head seat 4, the upper body sheet 5 and the lower body sheet 6, etc. are adjusted. Phosphorus can be formed to selectively relax certain parts of the human body. In addition, in the case of the lower body sheet 6, the left and right lower body sheets 60 and 61, which are separated from each other and are respectively adjusted, are adjusted differently as shown in FIG. You can relax. In addition, by using the lower body sheet 6 which is rotated up and down or in the longitudinal direction, in the state of relaxing the human body as described above, the longitudinal axis relaxation according to the articular relaxation movement or the traction movement of the human body is as follows. You can also exercise together. That is, the left and right seats 60 and 61 of the lower seat 6 are supported by the support members 100 and 101 cranking with the phase difference according to the selective operation of the left and right clutches 140 and 141 on the left and right sides of the driving device, respectively. Can be adjusted to move up and down with a phase difference with respect to each other and can also be adjusted to reciprocate longitudinally with the moving frame 601 as the respective transfer motors 602, so that the nucleus nucleus between the vertebrae and the vertebrae is biased to either side. When physiotherapeutic disorders in which the lesion site is biased in one direction, such as escaped intervertebral nucleus effusion or scoliosis, the body may be statically relaxed by varying the left and right slack according to the site and condition of the disease (Fig. 5), or by bending the left and right sides of the human body with different relaxation degrees (see FIG. 7), the difference in the left and right looseness and relaxation time of the spine is determined. Uh, so the lesion can be concentrated relax area occurs can be improved pain or symptoms in the short term. In addition, since the joints can be articulated so that the joints are not biased to one side by using the left and right lower body sheets 60 and 61, which can be reciprocated in the longitudinal direction, respectively, by the transfer motor 602, for example, sprains Diseases such as left upper and lower fractures such as muscles and joints shortened only in the long axis direction (長軸 方向) can be very effectively corrected or cured.

As described in detail above, according to the traction device for chiropractic according to the present invention, by using the bending formed by the sheet divided into three parts forcibly relax the joint or the like in a specific direction according to the disease site Exercise can be forced to treat diseases related to the spine by physical means. In addition, the relaxation of the joints and joint movements in parallel can improve symptoms due to diseases associated with the spine in a short time. In particular, in the traction device for chiropractic according to the present invention, the lower body sheet is separated into left and right lower body sheets, each of which is inclined angle is adjusted, so that the left and right half of the human body can be relaxed by placing a differential on the degree of relaxation. Since the joint movement can be performed in a relaxed state, the lesion site can be concentrated in physiotherapy for a disease in which the lesion site is biased in a specific direction, such as intervertebral nucleus effusion in which the nucleus between the vertebrae and the vertebrae escapes to either side. As it can be physically treated, pain or symptoms can be improved in a short period of time, and the time taken to cure can be significantly shortened. In addition, the traction device for chiropractic according to the present invention is a left, right lower body sheet configured to allow longitudinal movement in the front and rear direction in addition to the spine correction performed by the relaxation or joint movement according to the bending of the human body without lateral deviation of the human body in the lateral direction. Traction treatment that is evenly towed can also be performed to effectively correct a wide variety of diseases related to the spine by selecting the appropriate treatment regimen.

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A base, a support fixed on the base, fixed to the front inclined upwardly in the middle of the support, a pair of side by side coupled to the front end of the support and supported by the support member by the support member Head seat consisting of left and right seats, the upper body seat coupled to the front end of the holder in the back of the head sheet and supported by the support by the support member, the drive device installed in the base, the support from the back of the support In the traction device for chiropractic comprising a lower body sheet supported to move up and down by a support member reciprocating in the vertical direction by the drive device in a hinged upper end portion of the, The lower body sheet includes a pair of left and right lower body sheets each having a separate frame so as to independently move up and down by the driving device, and the head sheet, the upper body sheet, and the left and right lower body sheets. Support members supporting each of the traction device for chiropractic, characterized in that the variable length of the adjustable support member. The method of claim 1, The left and right lower body sheets, the transfer motor is installed on one side of each frame, is installed to reciprocate in the longitudinal direction of the frame on the frame and the front end portion of the transfer by being coupled to the drive shaft of the transfer motor It includes a moving frame reciprocating in the longitudinal direction with the left and right lower body seat portion coupled to the upper surface by the forward and reverse driving of the motor, and the relaxation for the lower body while reciprocating in the longitudinal direction by the respective transfer motor Chiropractic physiotherapy device, characterized in that configured to repeatedly perform the contraction. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The drive device includes a single electric motor, a speed reducer for distributing the power of the electric motor to the left and the right by adjusting its rotational speed, and each power outputted by the speed reducer to the left and right according to a predetermined electric signal. Cam that rotates the lower end of the support member hinged to a position away from the center of rotation while rotating with the power output through the intermittent left and right clutches and the left and right clutches. Traction device for chiropractic, comprising a mechanism. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The support members for supporting the head sheet, the upper body sheet, and the lower body sheet, respectively, the traction device for chiropractic, characterized in that made of a shock absorber for absorbing vibration or shock. delete delete