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Definitions

• the present invention concerns a video-correcting, diagnostic and rehabilitating system for vertebral 5 scoliosis, that may provide the patient with the
• SUBSTITUTE SHEET The aim set forth is reached by means of the system according to the present invention, that provides the patients with the possibilitiy of correcting their own scoliotic deviation seing their defect and following step by step each single position, analyzing it directly with a quick taking conscience of the deformation.
• Figure 1 shows an axonometric view of the elements com ⁇ posing the system for revealing the rhachi- deal positio .
• Figure 2 shows a scheme view of a revealing unit
• SUBSTITUTESHEET may be eventually portable, for the analysis of the static and dynamic immage of the rhachis
• Figure 3 shows an axonometric scheme view of a physi ⁇ cal therapy device for the realization of the rehabilitation exercises of the facilitating king with asymmetric gymnastics.
• Figure 4 shows the detail of the fixing of the revea- ler onto the spine.
• the enclosed figures show a video-correcting system for vertebral scoliosis, comprising a transparent flexible blade 1, provided with a plurality of movable references 2, such that each corresponds to one vertebra starting from the sixth or seventh cervica and is provided with a central hole 3 and with lateral holes that show a point on the skin.
• said transparent blade 1 is provided with a plurality of holes of such dimensions that at least one of them corresponds to one vertebra.
• the means for locating the latter consists of an elements that will get inserted into said hole that corresponds to the medium point of the corresponding vertebra. Each hole represents a point on the skin.
• said blade will be laid upon the radiographic image • R, taking as a reference the 6th or the 7th cervical vertebra on the top and the intergluteal fold at the bottom or the 5th lumbar vertebra, and said vertebral referen ⁇ ces will be placed in correspondence of the image of the relative vertebrae.
• Said blade 1 will be further placed nead the back D of the patient and through above mentioned holes 3 of the vertebral references 2, the points correspond ⁇ ing to the vertebrae's position are designed on the skin by means of a dermographic pencil with rflecting ink and/or applying small adhesives 4, also of reflecting material, so as to outwardly show the eventual pathologic curve of the spine.
• S UBSTITUTESHEET to the present invention, the following one - as shown in figure 2 - comprises the application to the back D of the patient of a revealing unit, consisting of a blade 5 scattered will small elements 6, placed in rows X and in columns Y on the Cartesian plane, that emit and reveal electromagnetic waves and are able to exploit the reflection phenomenon so as to visualize even the smallest position variations on the frontal plane, up to 0.3 mm.
• the final situation consists in the will of the patient of putting near each point of his own rhachis to above mentioned reference line.
• Each valid exercise is acousticaly signalled and counted.
• the validity consists of a correction X at the beginning and of a situation X + 1 after a determined training, a further situation X + 1 + 1 and so on, until the rhachis has been balanced up,
• S UBSTITUTESHEET The plumb point is determined as follows: in resting position, if two revealers are placed along one horizontal line passing through the pelvis, the crossing of a perpendicular defined by the two extreme revealers of the spine with said horizontal line must determine, in a plumb situation, an angle of about 90° .
• the squaring is requested for finding the position of the push and counter- push arms on the basis of the radiography placed on the dorsal plane.
• the vertical lines are at a very small distance (only mm).
• the crossing between the vertical line ad ⁇ jacent to the most lateral vertebra (to the right and to the left: main and counterbalance curve), and the horizontal line passing through said vertebra defines the height of the lateral push arm.
• the two push arms may be both blocked or both left free (a compression mechanism assures the adherence to the back ) .
• the ball is placed backwards with respect to the ischiatic resting point so as to prevent - due to the plane's inclinations - the vertical movements of the spine with respect of the operation height of the arms.
• a greater facilitation of the exercises may be obtained applying on one of the two arms - the push or the counter-push arm - electrodes 14 connected to an exciting and moving current generator.
• the electric stimulation on each push and counter- push arm is obviously and respectively operated by the right and/or left hand, according to the vision (nearing to the axis and self-elongation) of the rhachis on the monitor.
• a line 18 sliding in shape of an arch for lateral flexion movements.
• a device for the lower limbs consisting of two legs'
• SUBSTITUTE SHEET supports applied to a hydraulic or other mechanism for creating resistance to traction and compression.
• the device is adjustable in its various parts so as to be suited to patient of different height.
• a mechanical right and left stretching device for the upper limbs that supplies resistance to compressio as well as to distension
• a monitor 8 withthe following functions: a projection being real or with an underlining of the rhaezeal deviations, a visualizing of the values of the deviation from the reference line, a visualizing of the correcting force lines, a visualizing of the number of useful correcting ac ⁇ tions, underlined also by the acoustic system, and the graphical visualizating of the correcting progress .
• the whole device is resting on a circle arch line or on a joint, so as to be able to perform front and back inclination movements.
• the reduction of the load (that may be obtained with the back rotation of the device) allows to obtain a greater possibility of correcting during the exercise.
• said revealer has such a structure as to assure a good adherence to the back during the correcting movements, and compris- es :
• Said belt may also be replaced with an elastic slip so as to form one single body together with the vest.
• a collar 24 on the neck is provided.
• above mentioned back resting plane may replace the blade with the movable references, as the latter is also provided with the same.
• the movement with the lower limbs allos the ileo- pass to traction the spine and to rotate it to the opposite side and to incline it laterally.
• the traction by the upper limbs allows the elongation of the spine .
• the free movements will created in the patient a number of mnemonic and movement schemes, i.e. he will become able to locate a movement unit that will allow him to obtain a re-memorization of automatisms having the purpose of correcting the spine.
• the arch line for the upper limbs allows lateral inclination movements of the rhachis.
• the blocked push arm creates movements on a fix poin .
• said revealers 6 and said units 15 may be replaced by emitter-receivers with ultra- acoustic waves, with an appropriate visualizer connecte thereto .
• electromagnetic waves emitter may be applied to the skin, that exploit the reflection phenomenon, so that the revealing unit comprises elements for only receiving so as to be easier and handier, like a telecamera.
• the monitor will show horizontal arrows 16 in corre- . spondence with the apex of the curves (the most distant points from the reference line) with a centri-
• the monitor will show the last direction of the arrow until a new correction tendency is chosen, or also by an appropriate adjusting, for a determined time period of seconds (5, 10 etc.) , according to the correc ⁇ ting, contracting period requested.

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