FIELD: medicine; physiotherapy.
SUBSTANCE: device can be used for training patients suffering from cerebral spastic infantile paralysis to walk. Device has children's overall with left foot and right foot and adult overall. Adult overall is made with feet. Top parts of feet are fit for child's legs and are provided with aid for fixing left and right feet of children's overall. Locker for fixing like ankle of children's overall is mounted at area of each ankle of adult overall. Belts for keeping body part of children's overall upright are disposed at the area of belt of adult overall. Sleeves of children's overall are provided with external rods by means of which rods the physiotherapist, when being inside adult overall, performs manual control of pendulum-like motions of child's arms, when the child is inside children's overall.
EFFECT: widened functional abilities of the device; improved efficiency; reduced labor input.
1 dwg
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Dates
2006-03-27—Published
2004-02-24—Filed