DEVICE FOR MEASURING AND STUDYING HUMAN MUSCLE RESPONSES Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: medical engineering. SUBSTANCE: device has extremity link mechanically hold on a measuring platform, transducers recording momentum of force in the fixed joint developed by the muscles. Hammer fixed on movable platform by means of multi segment cantilever delivers metered blows each time under the same conditions. The latter results in measuring platform with leg fastened on it and the hammer forming a single static system which members are unmovable relative to each other and the point of action applied to the extremity. This results in high sensitivity, and the results obtained are marked as reliable and reproducible and correspond to human nerve system state. EFFECT: enhanced reproducibility and sensitivity; simplified method of knee joint examination; accelerated examination procedure. 2 cl, 3 dwg