FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: apparatus for forced feet motion refers to medical equipment and can be used in rehabilitation training apparatuses for the patients with a spinal cord trauma, infantile cerebral paralysis, etc. The apparatus contains movable knee rests with elastic belts for knee fastening and a crank gearing which comprises long and short levers. The levers are joined together. One end of the long lever is connected to the shin lever and to a drive motor and a control unit through the short lever of the crank gearing. The other end of this lever is connected to a hip rod through a distanser. The top of the rod is rigidly fixed with the movable knee rests and the shin rod on the second end of which a shin lever and a shin rest are attached. The shin rest has elastic belts for shin and foot fastening.
EFFECT: higher use efficiency ensured by enabled imitation of natural stepping out of a patient on a moving run track.
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