Therapeutic walking trainer
Assigneemedica-Medizintechnik GmbH
InventorOtto HOEBEL
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Abstract
A therapeutic walking trainer for improving the ability to walk, in particular for re-learning the ability to walk, with an upper frame, which has a torso-free body holder and provides forward support, and with a lower frame, which is connected to the upper frame by means of at least one supporting bar and has a number of rollers. To compensate for a torque acting on the vertical axis, the rollers are at least four in number, with at least one of the rollers, preferably exactly two of the rollers, being formed as drivable rollers. In addition, the invention relates to a combination of a therapeutic walking trainer with a motor-free treadmill, and the at least one supporting bar is connected to the lower frame via an elastic lower part.
Claims21
A therapeutic gait trainer for improving the ability to walk, particularly for relearning to walk, comprising:
- a top frame having a torsion-limiting body holder and providing forward support;
- a bottom frame connected to the top frame via at least one supporting rod;
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- a plurality of rollers,
- wherein, to compensate for a torque acting on the vertical axis, the number of rollers is at least four, of which at least one, preferably precisely two of the rollers are made as drivable rollers,
- wherein the at least one supporting rod is connected to the bottom frame via an elastic bottom part, and
- wherein a belt system attachable to the hips of a patient is provided, which is connected to at least one belt receptacle associated with the top frame.
A combination of a therapeutic gait trainer with a motor-free treadmill\, particularly a gait trainer according to claim, wherein a connecting unit acting between the gait trainer and the treadmill is provided, and wherein the treadmill is drivable by drivable rollers and movable via a motor of the gait trainer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.