A live display apparatus for setting extension and flexion limits in a continuous passive motion (CPM) system. The CPM system includes a carriage for supporting a patient's limb through a range of reciprocal angular movement, a drive motor for driving the carriage, a carriage state sensor for providing a signal representative of carriage state and a control unit responsive to the carriage state sensor for controlling the drive motor. The live display apparatus includes an operator controlled ext...

Automatic foot washing apparatus comprise a bath vessel delimiting a washing chamber and having an upper wall with two adjacent apertures provided with annular seals which, in use, sealingly surround the legs of a user. There are provided spray means associated with at least one of the side walls of the bath, washing means for supplying a washing liquid to the spray means, discharge means for discharging the washing liquid from the bath, and control means for controlling the supply means and the...

A continuous passive motion orthosis device for a limb having pivotally connected first and second body portions. The device includes a base having a proximal end and a distal end. A first carriage member receives the first body portion and is pivotally connected to a second carriage member which receives the second body portion. The second carriage member is also pivotably connected to the base. A drive mechanism moves the first carriage member between the distal and proximal ends of the base. ...

A continuous passive motion (CPM) device includes a foot support plate and a toe plate. The foot support plate pivots back and forth, driven by a rod connected to a motor. A toe plate pivots separately from the foot support plate, and receives its motive power solely from the foot support plate. The engagement of a pair of pins, one pin connected to the foot support plate and the other pin connected to the toe plate, causes the toe plate to pivot at the desired moment. The toe plate pivots in th...

A foot exercising device for use on persons confined to bed and including an exercising device having a pair of foot supporting means pivotally supported and attachable to a bed in a position to receive the feet of a person lying in bed. Oscillating control means is operatively connected to each of the foot support means for effecting an oscillating movement of the foot support means and the foot supported thereon of a limited moment of force about the foot ankle joint to exercise the body muscl...

A foot and body vibrator having a motor with an eccentric attached to an unsupported end of a platform, the central portion being flexibly mounted to a base, and the other end being secured to or unsecured to the base. Vibrations from the motor are efficiently transmitted through the platform with the assistance of the securement means consisting of hard rubber member sandwiched between a U-shaped flexible spring and thence a base and platform.

The massage device is adapted to be applied to the skin. It is provided with at least two elements (2, 3) each mounted to rotate freely about an associated axis (4, 5) and each generally having the shape of a solid generated by rotation, each axis being connected to the support, the directions of the two axes forming between them an oblique angle beta. The oblique angle beta is between 60.degree. and 170.degree. and the rotating elements (2, 3) are made of a flexible material, and have raised po...

The foot massage device is in the general form of an elongated tubular body member that has a plurality of pressure point members disposed on its outer surface. The tubular body is wide enough so that both feet of a person can be applied to the device at the same time. The tubular body has a left end portion, a central portion and a right end portion. The left and right end portions each have a convex outer surface along their longitudinal dimension and the central portion has a substantially co...

A motor hangs from a platform and extends downwardly towards a base which is connected to the platform by means of oscillatable supports. The motor rotates an eccentric mass so as to cause the platform to vibrate, a portion of the eccentric mass being disposed laterally of the motor and between the ends thereof.

A method and apparatus for simulating the act of walking by holding a knee substantially stationary while sequentially elevating a heel of a foot associated with the knee, depressing the unsupported arch, and flexing the toes. The foot is moved during the sequential operations in a direction parallel to a line through the toes and heel thereof, and is raised so that the arch returns to its normal position and returned to its original position following the sequential operations. Apparatus for ca...