Patent ID: 8663133
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: A61D,A61F,A61H,A63B

Abstract:
1. A system for assisting the motion of or supporting a body of a mammal having a body weight during a treatment procedure, such system comprising: (a) a pressure-tight suit made from flexible fabric adapted to being worn over all or a portion of one or more of the mammal's body parts consisting of a torso, leg, or arm, the pressure-tight suit having at least one opening around the mammal's torso, leg, arm, or a neck for accommodation by the pressure-tight suit of the body parts; (b) each opening of the pressure-tight suit having connected adjacent thereto a pressure-tight seal for operative engagement of a body part surface of the mammal; (c) inlet means in the suit for introduction of at least one source of a positive pressure to an interior of the suit between the mammal body parts and the suit to create a differential pressure condition therein between the positive pressure condition inside the suit, and a pressure condition existing outside the suit; (d) support means separate from the suit connected to the suit for counteracting a downwards force applied to the suit when it is placed under the differential pressure condition; (e) whereby the differential pressure condition exerts an upwards force upon the body to offload a portion of the weight of the body to the support means.