ORTHOPAEDIC TECHNICAL SUPPLEMENT, PARTICULARLY ARTIFICIAL LIMB Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC A61F2/76 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medical equipment, namely to orthopaedic technical supplements, particularly to an artificial limb. An orthopaedic technical supplement, particularly an artificial limb with at least one adjustable element for realisation of an appropriate orientation. Said supplement comprises a detector which is positioned and designed so that one segment in the appropriate orientation and during a steady static load position in a measuring plane is torque free, while insignificant variations from this stable load position generate torque moments in the measuring plane. The detector has indicators of opposed torque moments in the measuring plane.

EFFECT: invention provides imposed adjustments in balancing the orthopaedic technical supplement even without an expensive measuring system.

10 cl, 4 dwg