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Device for imparting continuous passive motion to human joints

  • US 4,716,889 A
  • Filed: 08/22/1985
  • Issued: 01/05/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/23/1981
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A continuous passive motion apparatus for mobilizing a human joint, comprising,an elongated support,traveller means on the support for reciprocating linear movement relative thereto, and means connected to the traveller means for operatively engaging a limb of the body adjacent to a joint to be mobilized,motor means for driving the traveller means back and forth through a reciprocating linear stroke in a slow rhythmic cycle;

  • and,for reversing the direction of travel of the traveller means at any point in its path of travel in response to a predetermined load.

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