Therapy apparatus

摘要

A machine has a platform for a standing patient to perform foot exercises specified by a set of selectors on the machine and pre-selected according to a therapy program. Different types of monitor devices viewable by the patient and an attendant, direct the patient to proceed with selected exercises. Light sources associated with the platform to illuminate portions of it, and other slight sources directed to sensors above the platform, are activated in concert, according to the directions addressed to the patient.

主权项

1. Rehabilitation therapy apparatus comprising:
platform for support of a human therapy patient while standing; a plurality of platform lighting sources for illuminating portions of said platform in four quadrants around a center, said platform having areas in said portions which are made of material capable of transmitting light from said sources through said areas for viewing from above said platform, to provide instructions to perform exercises; a control housing associated with one end of the platform, the control housing comprising a front face and a rear face on opposite sides of the control housing from one another, with the rear face facing the human therapy patient when standing on the platform; a monitor disposed above the control housing and positioned to show the front face of the control housing to the human therapy patient when standing erect on the platform; an exercise instruction program driver; and an exercise selector having a plurality of selector switches associated with said platform and said driver and operable, when set, to enable said driver to activate said platform lighting sources sequence in accord with settings of said selector switches, to thereby illuminate those of said areas of said platform specified for selected exercises in a sequence of exercises, wherein the exercise instruction program driver is configured to provide instructions for performance of selected exercises by the human therapy patient.