SYSTEM FOR UNDERWATER POLYSEGMENTARY SPINE STRETCHING Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC A61H33/00 A61H1/02 

FIELD: medical equipment.

SUBSTANCE: system contains bath, equipped with sloped board inside, pelvic and chest belts with fastening elements for flexible cables connected through rollers with loading system, unit for underwater cervical spine stretching, including Glisson's loop with loading system. System is equipped with floating, freely guided headrest. System of underwater cervical spine stretching is furnished with device with rod-fixture arm movable free vertically within hub rigidly fixed on bath end face, and fixed at any preset height by lock screw to provide precise regulation of required angle between axis of cervical and chest spines and sloped board. Loading system of pelvic and chest spines is worn next to the skin, being eight-sling, consisting of right and left four-sling subsystems, each of them is divided on forward and backward two-sling sections, consisting of breast and axillaries slings, mutually blocked in upper part with balancing blocks, and in bottom - connected to a chest belt and axillaries cuff freely moving across sling.

EFFECT: possibility of simultaneous or consecutive stretching of spinal parts in medical mineral water, and possibility of individual vector stretching of cervical spine.

3 cl, 7 dwg, 3 ex, 4 tbl