RU2437643C1 - Walker for motor rehabilitation of patients with complicated spinal injury - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medicine. ^ SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine and medical technology and is intended for treatment and rehabilitation of patients with complicated spinal injury Walker for training function of standing, independent first steps and walking contains two side rectangular bearing supports with rounded corners, with crossbar, upper and medial longitudinal beams, and knee rest, fixed to medial longitudinal beams Side bearing supports are provided with lower transverse and longitudinal beams Knee rest is made with semi-circular concavities for joints support. ^ EFFECT: use of invention increases support ability and stability of construction, provides rest for knees, ensures production of "knee closing" reflex, improvement of nervous, muscular and motor activity of musculoskeletal system as a whole, acceleration of vertical positioning of spinal patients. ^ 1 dwg

Description

The invention relates to medicine and medical equipment, relates to a device for motor rehabilitation of patients with complicated spinal cord injury and can be used to improve the nervous, muscle and motor activity of the musculoskeletal system as a whole, to accelerate the processes of verticalization of spinal patients, workout walking, reduce contractures, spasticity, increased muscle strength of the upper and lower extremities, accelerated recovery of impaired function of the pelvic organs.

Known walking support walkers, consisting of four legs with two hand rails (manufacturer Amrus Enterprises, Ltd., NJ, 08863, USA, importer, ZAO Moscow-Amros, Moscow, 107996, PO Box 11) . The patient relies on the crossbars and takes independent steps.

The closest analogue of the invention are walkers containing two lateral support legs with a transverse, upper and middle longitudinal bars, a knee stop that is attached to the middle longitudinal bars (http://www.chuvashev.ru/wp-content/uploads/2008/05 /hodunki.jpg).

The disadvantages of this device are the lack of stability and design convenience for patients with complicated spinal injury.

The objective of the invention is to provide a device for the rehabilitation of patients with impaired muscle, nervous and motor coordination due to a complicated spinal injury, providing restoration of motor stereotypes, improving muscle, nervous and motor coordination, removing spasticity of muscles, eliminating contractures, eliminating adhesions between muscle fibers in patients with impaired nervous and muscle coordination as a result of spinal injury.

EFFECT: increased supportability and stability of the structure, creation of support on the knees, development of the “knee closure” reflex, improvement of the nervous, muscular and motor activity of the musculoskeletal system as a whole, acceleration of the processes of verticalization of spinal patients, reduction of contractures, spasticity, increase of muscle strength of the upper and lower extremities, strengthening the muscles of the abdominal press and spine, accelerating the restoration of impaired function of the pelvic organs.

The specified technical result is achieved by the fact that in walkers for training the standing function, independent first steps and walking, containing two lateral rectangular load-bearing supports having rounded corners, with transverse, upper and middle longitudinal rungs, a knee stop that is attached to the median longitudinal rungs, according to the invention, the side bearing supports are provided with lower transverse and longitudinal rungs, and the knee stop is made with semicircular concavities for stopping the joints.

The invention is illustrated in the drawing, which shows the proposed device, General view.

The proposed walkers contain two rectangular bases 1 with rounded corners, between which there is a knee stop 2 with semicircular concavities for stop joints. The bases are connected by the upper and lower transverse crossbeams 3 and contain the upper 4, middle 5 and lower 6 longitudinal crossbars (see drawing).

The proposed device is used as follows. The patient from the position of "sitting on a chair or stroller" gets up, holding on to the crossbar of the base, rests on the knee stop. Thereby, the standing function is trained, a knee-jerk reflex is developed. Then the patient takes the first steps and trains independent walking.

The advantages of the proposed device are a more comfortable and safer patient position due to increased support and structural stability due to the addition of lower longitudinal and transverse crossbars to the side bearing supports. The presence of an improved knee stop, which has semicircular concavities for the emphasis of the joints, ensures their fixation and restrict their movement to the sides. With the help of the knee stop, the patient first trains the function of standing, resting on the knees, develops a “knee closure” reflex and, relying on the arms for the arms, independently takes the first steps and walks. Rearranging walkers when walking is more convenient due to the fact that the side bearing supports are made in the form of rectangular bases with rounded corners.

Claims (1)

Walkers for training standing functions, independent first steps and walking, containing two lateral rectangular load-bearing supports having rounded corners, with transverse, upper and middle longitudinal rungs, a knee stop that is attached to the median longitudinal rungs, characterized in that the lateral load-bearing supports lower transverse and longitudinal rungs, and the knee stop is made with semicircular concavities for stop joints.

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