DEVICE FOR SUBAQUEOUS VERTEBRAL EXTENSION Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: medicine, medicinal equipment. SUBSTANCE: the method deals with conservative treatment of vertebral column and could be used for subaqueous vertebral extension in a bath. The method deals with continuous precisely controlled loading to adapt a patient to ascending efforts. The bottom is fixed by hinges at one of bath's sides and supplied with a mechanism to move in vertical direction of its opposite side. Loading mechanism is designed as a screw-type hand drive connected through a dynamometer with an element for patient's lumbar fixation. Boarding is supplied with a device for lateral shift against the framework for the purpose to transport a patient before and after procedure. EFFECT: higher therapeutic recovering action. 1 cl, 2 dwg