RU2314082C2 - Assembly for extension of patient's body - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medical equipment.

SUBSTANCE: assembly for extension of patient's body can be used for treatment of all departments of spinal column and of arthrosis of big joints of lower extremities. Assembly for extension patient's body has table with lodgment, mechanism for making changes in angular position of lodgment relatively plane of horizon and members for fixing patient's body to lodgment. Lodgment has platform disposed at point where patient's legs have to be fixed for linear movements along lodgment for length being equal to distance from point of position of pelvis of patient onto lodgment to point where his/her feet are disposed at extended position. For the purpose, guide is used, which guide is tightly connected with lodgment and disposed in plane of bushing being tightly connected with platform. Platform is made for angular shifts about axial line of guide. Spinal column is corrected during process of extension when different shifts occur in departments of spinal column.

EFFECT: higher quality of treatment.

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Description

The invention relates to medical equipment and can be used for the prevention and treatment of all parts of the spine and arthrosis of large joints of the lower extremities.

A device is known - massage table - massager (magazine "Inventor and rationalizer" No. 8, 2000, p.11), containing a table with a lodgement, located horizontally, tensioning devices with fasteners for the arms and legs of the patient, as well as a fastening belt for fixing the patient on the lodgement.

The disadvantage of this device is that it does not allow the use of the patient’s body weight during traction, which is, to a certain extent, a source of constant load leading to disease.

This disadvantage is eliminated by the device - dosed stretching apparatus "ORMED - prophylaxis" (Medical Bulletin No. 23-24, 2004).

This device, selected as a prototype, contains a table with a lodgement, a mechanism for changing the angle of inclination of the lodgement relative to the horizontal plane, and also an attachment element (chest belt) for the axillary hollows of the patient and allows the body to be stretched under the influence of gravity of the patient’s own body weight.

The disadvantage of the prototype is that the device does not allow for correction of the spine with displacements in various parts of the spinal column.

The objective of the invention is to improve the quality of treatment by implementing in the process of stretching correction of the spine with displacements in the departments of the spinal column, which leads to a comprehensive rehabilitation of the spinal column and internal organs due to the release of nerve roots coming from the spinal cord to these organs.

The problem is solved by introducing into the device for stretching the patient’s body a platform located at the location of the patient’s feet with the possibility of linear movements along the tool tray and its rotation around the longitudinal axis of the tool holder.

Figure 1, 2 presents the proposed device for traction of the patient's body.

The device comprises a table 1 with a lodgement 2, a mechanism 3 for changing the angular position of the lodgement 2 relative to the horizon plane, made in the form of an axis connecting the table 1 with a lodgement 2, fasteners 4 and 5, respectively, of the patient’s chest and legs 6 to the lodgement 2. On the lodgement 2 at the location of the legs of patient 6, a platform 7 is mounted made of two mutually perpendicular plates rigidly fastened to each other, for example, by welding, one of which is parallel to the plane of the lodgement 2, the second is perpendicular to this plane.

The platform 7 has the possibility of linear movements in the direction along the lodgement 2 by a length equal to the distance from the location of the feet of the patient 6 in the elongated position of the legs to the location of the pelvis of the patient 6 on the lodgement 2, by means of a guide 8 made in the form of a pipe rigidly connected with the lodgement 2 and located in the cavity of the sleeve 9, rigidly connected with the platform 7.

The axial line of the guide 8 is located along the lodgement 2. The platform 7 also has the possibility of angular movements around the axial line of the guide 8 by turning it together with the sleeve 9 around the guide 8.

The device contains two handles 10, rigidly connected to the table 1 for holding by the patient 6 with his hands his body, placed on the tool tray 2, in the angular position determined by the doctor relative to the horizon plane and made in the form of a pipe bent in the form of an ellipse (circle), as well as a lever 11 c clamps 12 for rigidly fixing the tool tray 2 with the patient’s body 6 at a head position below the level of the legs (FIG. 1) and lever 13 with clamps 14 for rigidly fixing the tool box 2 with the patient’s body 6 at a head position above the level of the legs (figure 2).

The device operates as follows.

Patient 6 is placed on the platform 7, fixed to the guide 8, so that his feet are fixed to the last fastening element 5 (for example, with the vertical position of the cradle 2, when the patient 6 is on a plate perpendicular to the plane of the cradle 2, platform 7, with the fastening element 5, the feet are fixed to this plate), and the pelvis, back and head of the patient 6 rested against the lodgement 2.

After this, the patient 6 himself or with the help of an instructor, holding the arms of the handles 10 of the table 1, by means of mechanism 3 sets the lodgement with his body in the inclined position chosen by the doctor, in which his head is below the level of the legs (figure 1).

Using the lever 11 and the latch 12, the instructor rigidly fixes this angular position of the tool tray 2.

In this position of the cradle 2, the body of the patient 6 is stretched under the influence of its own weight.

In the extended position of the body, the patient’s chest 6 is fixed to the lodgement 2 by the fastening element 4.

After stretching the body, the patient 6 by the handles 10 (or with the help of an instructor) by means of mechanism 3 rotates the lodgement 2 with his body so that his legs and body are set below the head level at an angle defined by the instructor (or doctor), for example, 45 °.

Using the lever 13 and the latch 14, the instructor rigidly fixes this angular position of the lodgement 2 (Figure 2).

After unlocking the feet of the patient 6 with the platform 7 and the platform itself, the instructor moves the latter along the guide 8 in the direction of the lodgement 2 together with the feet, while the latter are bent at the knee joints.

At an angle defined by the instructor for bending the legs in the knee joints and fixed by the fastening element 5 to the plate parallel to the plane of the lodgement 2, platform 7 with the forefoot (toe), patient 6 tilts the bent legs in directions across the lodgement 2, while the platform 7 rotates around the guide 8 whose axis coincides with the longitudinal axis of the lodgement.

The proposed device allows traction - rotation (rotation) of the spinal column of the patient with subsequent correction of the spine in various parts of the spinal column, i.e. where there is a pathology - displacement.

In this case, the suppression of nerve roots is eliminated, muscle spasm is relieved, blood circulation improves, as a result of which relaxation occurs. The pain syndrome disappears, nutrition of the intervertebral discs, ligaments and muscles improves. A comprehensive rehabilitation of the spinal column and internal organs is carried out.

Examples of application of the device.

1. Patient A., 40 years old, athlete - serviceman, complaints of pain in the heart area with a deep breath, diagnosis - intercostal neuralgia.

After the treatment course (novocaine blockade, physiotherapy ...), there was no improvement. The patient underwent 1 spinal correction session on the simulator of the proposed design, the movable part of which - the lodgement was at an angle of 45 ° to the horizon plane.

The patient disappeared acute pain in the heart with a deep breath.

2. Patient B., 36 years old, lifted a heavy load, felt a sharp pain in the lower back, the diagnosis was osteochondrosis of the lumbosacral spine.

Traction (without rotation) with the lodgement inclined to the plane of the horizon did not produce an effect.

After 2 procedures on the simulator of the proposed design, the spine was corrected in the lumbosacral region, acute pain in the lumbosacral region, the hip joint and calf muscle disappeared.

The use of the proposed device, carrying out traction - rotation (turns), leads to quick and effective rehabilitation for various pathologies of the spinal column in its different departments.

Claims (1)

A device for stretching the patient’s body, containing a table with a tool tray, a mechanism for changing the angular position of the tool holder relative to the horizon plane, fastening elements of the patient body to the tool holder, characterized in that the tool holder contains a platform located at the location of the patient’s legs, with the possibility of linear movements along the tool holder, a length equal to the distance from the location of the patient’s pelvis on the lodgement to the location of his feet in their elongated position, by means of a guide rigidly connected to a holder and placed in the cavity of the sleeve, rigidly connected with the platform, while the platform is made with the possibility of angular movements around the axial line of the guide.

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