A portable physical therapy system for remote physical therapy and related methods. The system includes collapsible bars that are hingedly attachable to handrails, and the collapsible bars are securable at any of a plurality of lengths. The system also includes bar feet, and each bar foot secures a collapsible bar or a base thereon and securely engages a surface thereunder. The lower portion of the bar foot includes a suction cup to secure the bar foot to the surface by suction. The system may be folded up into the base which functions as a carrying case for storage or transport of the system and may be unfolded and assembled as a set of parallel bars, a pull bar, or another configuration for physical therapy and rehabilitation.

Procedure for the generation of a reflex tear secretion, which comprises the chemical stimulation of the cornea of the eye of a subject by applying a controlled jet of a gas with a high CO.sub.2 content, of at least 80% of CO.sub.2. Compact device (1,1′) for the generation of a reflex tear secretion, comprising a gas source (7) in the form of a disposable type cartridge containing a pressurized gas with a composition of at least 80% of CO.sub.2; and a pneumatic circuit connecting an outlet mouth of said gas source (7) with a gas outlet nozzle (3) of the device (1,1′), the circuit comprising pressure regulation means (8) and flow rate (17) regulation means suitable for ejecting puffs of gas through the outlet nozzle (3) at a predetermined pressure and flow rates.

A dispenser (1) of liquids for medical uses wherein a first membrane body (10) is shaped symmetrically with respect to a first frontal median plane (M) and to a second sagittal median plane (N) intersected in a central axis (A) and is delimited at the top by a dome (12) which is axially delimited by a base portion (12′) and by a top (12″) of given shape; a second body (20) being carried by the first body (10) inside the dome (12) in a position concentric with the axis (A); the second body (20) having a hollow lower portion (22) concentric with the axis (A) and an upper portion (28) engaged by a first and a second duct (280) (280′) terminating in the dome (12), with a first nozzle (2800′) (2800) and a second nozzle (2800′) respectively; each first and second nozzle (2800) (2800′) being arranged between the first frontal median plane (M) and the second sagittal median plane (N).

Pneumatic and therapeutic compression systems are disclosed including treatment protocols that may be used with such systems. A pneumatic compression system may include a source and sink of a pressurizing fluid. The pressurizing fluid may be sourced to a number of valves, each valve controllable by a control device including a computing device. The computing device may control each valve separately to allow any one or more of the valves to connect to the fluid source or the fluid sink. The computing device may include one or more therapeutic protocols that may direct one, two, or more valves to switch between fluid sourcing and fluid sinking, substantially simultaneously or in a sequence. A therapeutic compression system may include the pneumatic system in fluid communication with an inflation sleeve composed of multiple cells. Each cell may be inflated or deflated by a valve according to the therapeutic protocol.

A finger swinging massage device includes a hard inner housing, a soft outer housing surrounding the hard inner housing, and at least one swinging member installed between the hard inner housing and the soft outer housing. The at least one swinging member includes a rotary motor, an eccentric wheel connected with the rotary motor in transmission, a limiting sleeve fixed on the hard inner housing, and a swinging rod, with two opposite sides of the swinging rod rotatably connecting with the limiting sleeve, and a lower end of the swinging rod connecting with the eccentric wheel in transmission. The eccentric wheel cooperates with the limiting sleeve to convert rotation of the rotary motor into to-and-fro movement of the swinging rod, the swinging rod is exposed on a top portion of the hard inner housing, and the soft outer housing includes a massage portion corresponding to connect with the swinging rod.

This disclosure relates to device for providing continuous negative abdominal pressure (CNAP) which selectively recruits (inflates) the dorsal (spinal region) collapsed areas of the lung, while enabling the patient to remain in the supine (usual) position. The CNAP device includes a rigid frame configured to have a shape and size to envelop a patient's lower chest and abdominal area while in a supine position with the frame having opposed edges which sit on a surface on which the supine patient is resting. A series of panels are mounted in the frame such that the series of panels extend around the patient's lower chest and abdominal area. A flexible sheet wrapped around the outside of the panels and is long enough to extend up to the patient's upper chest and down to the patient's thighs and wide enough to envelop the supine patient's lower chest and abdominal area. Sealing members are to seal the flexible sheet over the frame and panels and around the patient's lower chest and pelvis, wherein a chamber is formed between the patient and said device when the patient is enveloped by the device. An air inlet coupling extends through one of the panels and is attachable to a suction source which is configured to generate negative pressure of between about −5 to about −10 cm H.sub.2O inside the chamber.

A tempering table is disclosed. The tempering table includes a base structure and a top surface located atop the base structure. The top surface comprises a body portion and a plurality of receiving holes. At least a first receiving hole of the plurality of receiving holes is located on a first side of the body portion, and at least a second receiving hole of the plurality of receiving holes is located on a second side of the body portion opposite the first side of the body portion. The first receiving hole and the second receiving hole are at least approximately symmetrical across a center line of the body portion between the first side of the body portion and the second side of the body portion.

A distributed patient monitoring system comprises at least one standalone portable ultrasound imaging unit configured to be fixed to a stable position against the skin on a patient's body and capable of prolonged ultrasound data acquisition, including an ultrasound imaging array, transmit-receive circuitry, a beamformer, backend signal and image processing subsystem, power and communication subsystems, and a monitoring workstation connected to each standalone portable ultrasound imaging unit configured to request and receive ultrasound imaging information from each standalone portable ultrasound imaging unit, and configured to analyze and display acquired ultrasound information.

A care instrument arranges a storage container and a peristaltic pump, with the storage container accommodating the care product, the peristaltic pump being configured to draw the care product from the storage container and deliver the care product to a surface of a housing. In this way, a user can apply care products while using the care instrument. By controlling the peristaltic pump by the control component, the care product is delivered to the surface of the housing in a timed and quantitative manner for precise and accurate delivery of the care product. The massaging component and the peristaltic pump can operate independently. When only the massaging component works independently, the care instrument functions in massaging, and when the massaging component and the peristaltic pump work together, the care product delivered to the surface of the housing may be further uniformly dispersed by the massaging component.

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 (8) mounted to the holder (7) supporting the patient's head and shoulders, whereby the holder (7) has a driving mechanism (9) situated horizontally and mounted to an immovable crossbar (6) of the support frame (1) and in its lower part is rotationally mounted, at the rotation point (10) of the holder, to the immovable crossbar (6). 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.