METHOD FOR THERAPEUTIC EXERCISES AND APPARATUS FOR THERAPEUTIC EXERCISES Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61H1/00 A61H1/02 A63B21/05 A63B21/08 A63B24/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions refers to medicine, including sports, and may be used for rehabilitation treatment of patients suffering from neurological motor function disorders. In a method for therapeutic exercises, a patient is lifted above a lodgement at a height by suspenders fixed on the related parts of the body, and the 'apparatus-patient' system is balanced. The patient's spatial mobility is provided by combined actuators with pneumatic and electric drives controlled from a personal computer with related program procedure for performing program motions. The patient is additionally motivated by presenting a virtual medium enabling the patient controlling a virtual character. The session effectiveness is described by the energy consumption dynamics of the actuator drives; and at lowering of energy consumption testifying to the patient's physical activity the program motion parameters are corrected. An apparatus for implementing the method for therapeutic exercises comprises a frame in the form of two parallel guides with movable cross bars. The guides comprise paired actuators movable in relation to the cross bars with power combined pneumatic and electric drives, each with function elements; there are also provided actuator control units, the personal computer with a standard control program - a therapeutic approach, actuator sensors and pneumatic and electric energy sources.

EFFECT: invention provides enhancement, higher motivation, more effective recovery of the motor function disorders with initially low or completely absent physical activity, higher adaptation of the apparatus to the patient's body, reliability, cost effectiveness and safety of performance.

3 cl, 7 dwg