| 摘要 |
A device is provided for tractioning and flexing an injured or diseased area to expedite the healing of bone or soft tissue fractures or other tissues in a patient. For example, an appendage having a fractured bone is placed in traction and at the same time continuously flexed and extended as is a particular joint proximally connected to the fractured bone in order to prevent joint tissue deterioration. The portable finger dynamic traction device includes a support structure which is attachable to the body to substantially immobilize joints of the body proximal to the particular joint as is necessary to promote flexing of the proximal joint. Associated with the support structure is an actuator reciprocably movable in a substantially arcuate path which is substantially in the plane of the natural bending movement of the particular joint, distally outward of the fracture and with the particular joint substantially at the radial center. A tension member traction the broken appendage to the movable actuator so that the appendage follows the reciprocating movement of the actuator to flex the joint.
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