Abstract: A medical device for applying a cyclic therapeutic action to a subject's foot, the device including a platform with at least three independently actuable inflatable bladders staggered therealong to solely underlie the subject's heel, his plantar arch and his foot's front portion including its metatarsals and its toes, respectively, whereby a traveling compressive wave can be cyclically applied to his foot's underside only.
Abstract: A medical device for applying a cyclic therapeutic action to a subject's foot, the device including a platform with at least three independently actuable inflatable bladders staggered therealong to solely underlie the subject's heel, his plantar arch and his foot's front portion including its metatarsals and its toes, respectively, whereby a travelling compressive wave can be cyclically applied to his foot's underside only.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 21, 2001
Date of Patent:
July 1, 2003
Assignee:
Medical Dynamics LLC
Inventors:
Dan Manor, Roni Bibi, Eli Levy, Ascher Shmulewitz