Akademia Gorniczo-hutnicza Im. Stanislawa Staszica W Krakowie

Jerzy Kwaśniewski

Szymon Molski

A device for spine rehabilitation comprising a support frame, immovable crossbars, movable crossbars, and a holder and systems of actuators supporting a patient's head, shoulders, hip, knees, and feet, characterised in that it is equipped with linear actuators () mounted to the holder () supporting the patient's head and shoulders, whereby the holder () has a driving mechanism () situated horizontally and mounted to an immovable crossbar () of the support frame () and in its lower part is rotationally mounted, at the rotation point () of the holder, to the immovable crossbar (). A method for spine rehabilitation using the device for lateral deviation of the patient's torso, whereby the patient's body situated horizontally, face up, is lifted on eight sling hangers taking hold of his/her head and his/her back in the points of shoulder girdle and pelvis girdle.

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Cracow, Poland

Jerzy Kwaśniewski