DEVICE FOR CORRECTING AND TREATING THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medical engineering.

SUBSTANCE: device has frame having sidewalls and mounting pedicles, end crossbars and lumbar crossbar attached to the sidewalls, flexible ribbons placed between the end crossbars, rigid transverse ribs fixed on the flexible ribbons forming supp0orting surface, head panel and crus panel each mounted on its own base using kneepieces forming parallelogram mechanism making spring-loaded movements aside from the lumbar crossbar. Bases of the head panel and crus panel are mounted below frame sidewalls. Kneepiece lengths bearing the panels are increased. The longitudinal panel base guides are suspended below as cantilevers to the frame sidewalls by means of paired brackets and intermediate supporting members to enable one to adjust base position relative to frame sidewalls.

EFFECT: improved tension conditions.

5 cl, 19 dwg