PCT No. PCT/IT93/00005 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 13, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 13, 1994 PCT Filed Jan. 23, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO93/14733 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 5, 1993A diagnostic and therapeutic apparatus for re-educating the posture of the backbone includes in combination mechanism for controlling the orthostatic posture of the patient, mechanism for carrying out a differential traction on the same patient at different levels in order to cancel out all or a part of his weight, mechanism for correcting the postural defects in the three planes of the space and for blocking the patient within postural limits in order to prevent him from assuming postures other than that therapeutic even during the deambulation. In particular, the orthostatic posture is controlled by measuring the weight resting on each foot of the patient through footboards (19A,19B) sensitive to changes in pressure placed under a travelling band (18), and the traction mechanism are lacings or traction slings (24) slidable around pulleys (22) carried by a rigid framework and put under tension manually by the operator or automatically by a microprocessor receiving data measured from the footboard (19A,19B) sensitive to changes in pressure.
Apparatus for the antigravity modification of the myotensions adapting the human posture in all of the planes of space