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Continuous passive motion hand device

US4576148A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 3, 1984
Grant dateMar 18, 1986
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Expiry dateFeb 3, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S482/901
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A continuous passive motion therapy device with drive means carried on the patients hand or arm having a gear train extending down the patients hand and movable drive arms connectable at a plurality of locations along the gear train to selectively exercise the metacarpophalangeal joint or the interphalangeal joint.

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