DEVICE FOR MEASURING DISTORTION OF OSTEOMUSCULAR SYSTEM Russian patent published in 1994 - IPC

FIELD: medical engineering. SUBSTANCE: device includes transparent rules 1 and 3, cross-pieces 2 and 4, protractors 16 and 23, auxiliary rules 13 and 20, coupling 5, V-shape holders 15 and 18 positioned in slits of main rules 1 and 3, and protractors 26 and 28 positioned in frontal plane. Disclosed device and respective method are designed for successively visually monitoring and measuring distortions of osteomuscular system both in infant and adult patients and may find application both in hospitals and polyclinics, particularly, for prophylactic medical examination of children for detecting initial forms of scolioses and pathologic lordoses and kyphoses. EFFECT: higher accuracy and earlier diagnosis. 5 dwg