Supinator/pronator therapy system to bring mobility to wrist, forearm and/or elbow
First Claim
1. A passive therapy device for use by a patient to bring mobility to the wrist, forearm and/or elbow, wherein selective alternate supination and pronation therapies may be applied to the patients wrist, comprising a frame adapted to surround the patient'"'"'s wrist and at least a portion of the patient'"'"'s forearm radially thereof;
- a subframe pivotably mounted within the frame for rotatable movement about a longitudinal axis substantially parallel to the patient'"'"'s wrist, means for adjustably positioning the patient'"'"'s wrist within the pivotably-mounted subframe, means for limiting the degree of circumferential movement of the subframe within the frame, and means for applying an adjustable force to the rotatable movement of the subframe and wherein the frame comprises a pair of diametrically-opposite longitudinally-disposed tubular struts, a strut adjustably mounted within each of the tubular struts, longitudinally thereof, and a first pair of circular rings secured to the tubular struts, one at each end of the tubular struts.
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Abstract
A passive therapy device useful for bringing back mobility to the wrist, forearm and/or elbow after immobilization. The device provides therapy to restricted tissue in the wrist, forearm and/or elbow while applying passive tension during therapy. The therapy device is able to readily convert from supination therapy to pronation therapy. In addition, the device can be converted for either right hand use or left hand use.
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14 Claims
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1. A passive therapy device for use by a patient to bring mobility to the wrist, forearm and/or elbow, wherein selective alternate supination and pronation therapies may be applied to the patients wrist, comprising a frame adapted to surround the patient'"'"'s wrist and at least a portion of the patient'"'"'s forearm radially thereof;
- a subframe pivotably mounted within the frame for rotatable movement about a longitudinal axis substantially parallel to the patient'"'"'s wrist, means for adjustably positioning the patient'"'"'s wrist within the pivotably-mounted subframe, means for limiting the degree of circumferential movement of the subframe within the frame, and means for applying an adjustable force to the rotatable movement of the subframe and wherein the frame comprises a pair of diametrically-opposite longitudinally-disposed tubular struts, a strut adjustably mounted within each of the tubular struts, longitudinally thereof, and a first pair of circular rings secured to the tubular struts, one at each end of the tubular struts.
- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A passive therapy device for stretching tissue at the wrist, forearm or elbow to gain mobility therein comprising a wrist stabilizer and an upper arm cuff,
the wrist stabilizer is fixedly retained between sets of inner and outer smaller rings; -
said sets of inner and outer smaller rings are retained by a race affixed to a set of inner and outer larger rings, such that the set of inner and outer smaller rings is able to rotate freely in the race and in a plane parallel to each set of inner and outer larger rings;
a set of struts joins the set of inner rings and a set of struts joins the outer rings;
the front smaller ring has a fixed pin and the front outer larger ring has a spring and lever tension mechanism mounted thereon;
such that with the fixed pin, mounted on the inner smaller ring, in juxtaposition with said lever of the spring and lever tension mechanism and with the wrist in the wrist stabilizer and the upper arm in the cuff, tension of the pin in juxtaposition with the lever of the tension mechanism will cause the tissue of the wrist, forearm and/or elbow to stretch and gain normal mobility. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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