KR101458714B1 - Apparatus for spine traction - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a device for spine traction and, more specifically, to a device for spine traction with traction power which is changeable according to user characteristics. The device according to the present invention comprises a bed unit which includes a plurality of beds which can be separated in a length direction and rotated in an up and down direction; a traction unit which separates or rotates the beds so as to provide traction power so that muscles are stretched; and a traction power measuring unit which measures traction power provided from the traction unit; and a traction power control unit which controls the traction power of the traction unit. The traction power control unit controls the traction unit so as to gradually increase the separated degree or rotated angle of the beds, measures traction power through the traction power measuring unit when the separated degree or the rotated angle is increased, determines a point where the measured traction power is instantaneously increased to reach a peak value as the elastic critical point, reboots the operation of the traction unit so as to change the separated degree or rotated angle of the beds to 0, includes an initial setting mode for changing the provided traction power to 0, sets the peak value as an individual traction power standard value, and controls traction power by individually reflecting traction power standard values when the spine is tractioned.

Description

{APPARATUS FOR SPINE TRACTION}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a vertebral traction device, and more particularly, to a vertebral traction device that varies a traction force according to a user's characteristic.

In general, physiotherapy is a conservative treatment method that alleviates pain or corrects abnormal anatomical state through physical methods using materials such as electricity, light, water, air, sound, and various apparatuses instead of surgery and chemotherapy In particular, for the treatment of most spinal diseases associated with dysfunction of the spinal joint and muscles that cause pain in the musculoskeletal system of the spine or limb, there is a need to bend the body to relax a particular area, Physiotherapy, which trains and orthodontically treats the spinal muscles by expanding the space between the vertebrae and the vertebrae, between the joints and the joints, or by stretching the skin, is a priority.

Such a chiropractic physiotherapy may improve or heal most of the diseases associated with the vertebra such as scoliosis, sciatica, spondylolisthesis, degenerative arthritis, spinal sprains, spinal stenosis, spondylitis, In the case of lumbar disc herniation, which is called a normal disc, which is caused by the exodeviation of the nerve roots, it is a conservative treatment that can heal the cause of the compression of the nerve root by correcting the protruding vertebrae to a normal position. It is treated more importantly than therapy. There have been many successful cases of complete healing of the disc herniation by means of spinal orthodontic treatment.

Chiropractic physiotherapy methods are classified into physiotherapist traction and specially designed chiropractic traction device, ie, automatic traction using a traction bed. In the case of frequency traction, traction can be performed at various angles. . However, there is a problem that it can be practiced only by a skilled physical therapist because it depends on the empirical sense of the physical therapist such as traction, traction cycle or traction time. For this reason, automatic traction treatment methods using a traction device are mainly used at present, in spite of the traction, the traction period, and the rigidity of the adjustment of the traction time.

However, the standard of traction of all vertebral traction devices developed to date on the market or used for patient treatment is the individual patient's weight. For example, for a patient weighing 60 kg, the traction force is constantly applied at 30 kg regardless of gender, age, and pain, and this value is set in the equipment and treated for 15 minutes.

Even patients with the same weight have different muscle masses, different muscle strengths depending on the presence or absence of individual pain, and muscle mass and muscle relaxation power vary depending on sex, age, and physical condition at the same time. Therefore, simply taking the weight of the traction force as a weight may cause damage to the muscles and the spine of the patient, and there is a problem that the patient is exposed to a medical accident unprotected.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a vertebral traction device capable of providing personalized traction and efficient and safe use.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a vertebral traction device capable of accurately and easily measuring a muscle elastic limit point of a user and reliably reflecting it on an individual traction force basis.

The problems to be solved by the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned problems, and other problems to be solved by the present invention, which are not mentioned here, can be understood by referring to the following description to those skilled in the art It will be understood clearly.

A vertebral traction device according to the present invention includes: a bed portion including a plurality of beds rotatable in a vertical direction and spaced apart in a longitudinal direction; A traction portion that separates or pivots the plurality of beds to provide a traction force so that the muscles are stretched; A traction force measuring unit for measuring a traction force provided by the traction unit; And a traction force control unit for controlling the traction force of the traction unit. The traction force control unit controls the traction unit to gradually increase the spacing or pivot angle of the bed, and measures the traction force when the spacing is increased or the pivot angle is increased After determining the point at which the measured traction force instantaneously rises to form the peak value as the elastic limit point of the muscle, the operation of the traction unit is rebooted to change the spacing or pivot angle of the bed to 0 and change the provided traction force to 0 The peak value is set as the individual pulling force reference value including the initial setting mode and the pulling force is controlled by reflecting the individual pulling force reference value at the time of the vertebrae pulling operation.

The bed portion of the present invention may further comprise a body belt provided on a first bed located in an upper portion of the plurality of beds and a pelvis belt provided on a second bed located in a lower portion of the plurality of beds in a longitudinal direction And fixing the body to each of the first bed and the second bed such that the muscles extend when the first bed and the second bed are spaced apart.

In addition, in the initial setting mode of the present invention, when the elastic limit of the muscle is reached by gradually increasing the separation degree and the pivot angle of the bed, the golgi tendon organ and the muscle spindle are reflexively guided So that the traction force of the traction portion instantaneously increases.

Further, the traction control unit of the present invention controls the traction unit to generate a traction force of 50% of the traction force reference value in the retainer mode and controls the traction unit to generate a traction force of 25% of the traction force reference value in the restraint mode And a control unit.

The traction control unit of the present invention is characterized in that the traction force is gradually increased linearly when the spacing between the beds is gradually increased in the initial setting mode or when the pivot angle between the beds is gradually increased.

According to the solution of the above-mentioned problems, the vertebral traction device of the present invention provides an individualized traction force, so that it can be used effectively and safely.

In addition, the vertebral traction device of the present invention can accurately and easily measure the muscle elastic limit point of a user and can reliably reflect the muscle tension limit on an individual traction basis.

1 is a perspective view of a vertebral traction device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram of a vertebral traction device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure in the initial setting mode of the vertebrae traction apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a graph illustrating a process of determining a muscle elasticity threshold in an initial setting mode of a spinal traction apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a graph showing the traction force of each of the retainer mode and the resting mode in the spinal traction movement of the vertebrae traction device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: FIG. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The advantages and features of the present invention and the manner of achieving them will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 to 5 are views for explaining a vertebral traction device according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1 is a perspective view of a vertebral traction device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a vertebral traction device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention FIG. 4 is a graph illustrating a process of determining a muscle elastic limit point in an initial setting mode of a vertebral traction apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. FIG. 3 is a graph showing the traction force of each of the retainer mode and the pausing mode in the spinal traction motion of the vertebral traction device according to one embodiment of the present invention.

1 to 5, a vertebral traction device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a bed part 110, a traction part 120, a traction force measurement part 130, and a traction force control part 140 do.

The bed portion 110 includes a plurality of beds which are longitudinally separable and which are vertically rotatable. Specifically, the bed part 110 is supported by a pulling part 120 which provides a pulling force and a supporting force from the upper side of the base 1 in which the pulling force measuring part 130, the pulling force control part 140 and the like are built. That is, the bed section 110 includes a head bed 4 composed of a left head bed 40 and a right head bed 41, an upper body bed 5 for supporting an upper body of the body, And an ankle bed 7 for supporting the ankle. Here, each of the beds 4, 5, 6, and 7 may be spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction or rotatably connected to each other in the vertical direction.

In addition, the bed part 110 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a body (not shown) provided in a first bed (corresponding to the upper body bed 5 in the embodiment of the present invention) A belt 8 and a pelvis belt 9 provided in a second bed (corresponding to the lower body bed 6 in the embodiment of the present invention) located in the lower longitudinal direction of the plurality of beds, It is possible to fix the user's body to each of the first bed 5 and the second bed 6 so that the muscles are stretched when the bed 5 and the second bed 6 are separated or rotated.

The traction portion 120 separates or rotates the plurality of beds 4, 5, 6, 7 to provide a traction force so that the muscles are stretched. More specifically, the pulling section 120 includes a central support 2 connected between the base 1 and the lower body bed 6 and connected to the upper body bed 5 from the central support 2. [ And a lower support 10 connected to the lower body bed 6 from the base 1. [ That is, the plurality of supports 2, 3, 10 supporting the plurality of beds 4, 5, 6, 7 is a kind of shock absorber composed of a piston rod and a cylinder, and is composed of a gas- So that the impact generated when the user lays on the bed is buffered and the rotation angle of each bed 4, 5, 6, 7 can be adjusted. In addition, the plurality of supports 2, 3, 10 allow each bed 4, 5, 6, 7 to be longitudinally movable to enable longitudinal adjustment of the spacing.

According to the above-described structure, the vertebral traction device according to the embodiment of the present invention can selectively relax the diseased part such as the neck, shoulder, waist or the like and can pivot in the vertical direction, By forcing the bending movement, the spinal relaxation and the joint relaxation exercise can be combined to effectively treat various diseases caused by spinal abnormality more effectively.

The traction force measuring unit 130 measures the traction force provided by the traction unit 120. [ Specifically, the pulling force measuring unit 130 is for measuring the force when the pulling unit 120 provides the pulling force such that the user's muscles are stretched by a separating operation or a pivoting operation. The pulling force measuring unit 130 drives the pulling unit 120 It is possible to indirectly measure the traction force at the time of the separation operation or the rotation operation by measuring the driving force of the driving motor (not shown) provided for the purpose of measurement through the load cell.

The traction force control unit 140 controls the traction force of the traction unit 120. In particular, the traction control unit 140 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include an initial setting mode to set different traction forces for individual persons.

Referring to FIG. 3, the traction force control unit 140 first selects an initial setting mode by turning on a mode setting button (not shown) provided outside the base 1 (S110).

Next, the traction unit 120 is controlled to gradually increase the spacing or pivot angle of the beds 4, 5, 6, and 7 (S120). 4, the pulling force control unit 140 gradually increases the spacing between the beds 4, 5, 6, 7 in the initial setting mode, or gradually increases the spacing between the beds 4, 5, 6 , 7), it is possible to easily detect the suddenly rising traction force by keeping the traction force constant. As shown in (b), the traction force control unit 140 gradually increases the spacing between the beds 4, 5, 6, 7 in the initial setting mode or gradually increases the rotation angle between the beds 4, 5, 6, It is possible to easily detect the suddenly rising traction force by gradually increasing the traction force linearly, and in particular, it is possible to reduce the burden of muscles or joints due to the suddenly rising traction force.

On the other hand, the pulling force is measured through the traction force measuring unit at the time of increasing the spacing or increasing the pivoting angle (S130).

Next, the point at which the measured pulling force instantaneously rises to form the peak value is determined as the elastic limit point of the muscle (S140). That is, as shown in FIGS. 4 (a) and 4 (b), the peak value that appears as the elastic limit point of the muscle can be easily detected by using the characteristic that the curve of the graph forms a peak and descends. Specifically, in the initial setting mode, when the elastic limit of the muscle is reached by gradually increasing the separation and rotation angle of the bed, the golgi tendon organ and muscle spindle reflexively produce an afferent contractile force So that the pulling force of the pulling portion 120 instantaneously increases. This is due to the fact that the two receptors of the olfactory tendon and myotomy are automatically activated when external forces exceed the elastic limit of the muscles and prevent muscular damage.

Next, to reset the vertebral traction device, the operation of the traction portion 120 is rebooted to change the separation or rotation angle of the bed 4, 5, 6, 7 to 0, and change the provided traction force to 0 (S150).

Next, the peak value is set as the individual pulling force reference value, and the traction force is controlled by reflecting the individual pulling force reference value at the spine pulling operation (S160). For example, as shown in FIG. 5, the traction unit controls the traction unit to generate a traction force of 50% of the traction force reference value in the maintainer mode, and controls the traction unit to generate a traction force of 25% It is possible. By maintaining 50% of the peak value in the retentive mode, it is possible to prevent damage to the muscles and joints while maintaining a sufficient therapeutic effect, and in the resting mode, by maintaining 25% of the peak value, And it is possible to maintain a sufficient relaxation, and the continuous effect of the relaxation action can be sustained continuously in the middle.

As described above, the vertebral traction device according to one embodiment of the present invention can more effectively physically treat various diseases caused by spinal abnormality in combination with spinal relaxation and joint relaxation by pulling the spinal relaxation exercise or the joint bending exercise .

In addition, the vertebral traction device according to an embodiment of the present invention can provide an individualized traction force and can be used efficiently and safely, and it is possible to accurately and easily measure an individual's muscle elastic limit point and to reliably reflect the individual limit .

As described above, it is to be understood that the technical structure of the present invention can be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit and essential characteristics of the present invention.

Therefore, it should be understood that the above-described embodiments are to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than the foregoing description, All changes or modifications that come within the scope of the equivalent concept are to be construed as being included within the scope of the present invention.

1: Base
2: center support
3: upper support
4, 40, 41: Tofu bed
5: upper body bed (first bed)
6: Lower body bed (second bed)
7: ankle bed
8: Body belt
9: Pelvic belt
10: Lower support
110: bed portion
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130: Traction force measuring unit
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Claims (5)

A bed portion including a plurality of beds rotatable in a vertical direction and spaced apart in the longitudinal direction;
A traction portion that separates or pivots a plurality of said beds to provide a traction force such that the muscles extend;
A traction force measuring unit for measuring a traction force provided by the traction unit; And
A traction force control unit for controlling a traction force of the traction unit;
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The tractive force control unit,
The pulling force is measured through the pulling force measuring unit when the spacing is increased or when the pivoting angle is increased so that the pulling force is instantaneously increased to make the peak value Determining an elastic limit point of the muscle as a point of elasticity of the muscle, re-activating the operation of the pulling unit to change the spacing or rotation angle of the bed to 0, and changing the provided pulling force to 0,
Wherein the peak value is set as an individual pulling force reference value, and the pulling force is controlled by reflecting the pulling force reference value for each individual during the vertebrae pulling operation. The method according to claim 1,
The bed portion may include:
And a pelvic belt provided on a second bed located in a longitudinally lower portion of the plurality of the beds, wherein the first bed and the second bed are provided on the first bed and the second bed, Wherein the body is fixed to each of the first bed and the second bed such that the muscles extend when the second bed is separated. The method according to claim 1,
In the initial setting mode, when the elasticity limit of the muscle is reached by gradually increasing the separation and rotation angle of the bed, the golgi tendon organ and the muscle spindle reflexively exert an afferent contracting force So that the traction force of the traction unit instantaneously increases. The method according to claim 1,
The tractive force control unit,
The traction unit controls the traction unit to generate a traction force of 50% of the traction force reference value in the maintainer mode, and controls the traction unit to generate a traction force of 25% of the traction force reference value in the restraint mode A spinal traction device. The method according to claim 1,
The tractive force control unit,
Wherein when the spacing between the beds is gradually increased in the initial setting mode or when the rotation angle between the beds is gradually increased, the traction force is linearly and gradually increased.

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