Patent ID: 7993248
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
Classification: A61H

Abstract:
1. A rehabilitation support apparatus having the benefit of being fully adjustable to support and maintain a user in an upright standing position while undergoing rehabilatory physical activities to rehabilitate from debilitating ambulatory conditions due to age, disease, or injury, the rehabilitation support apparatus comprising: a track assembly attached to a ceiling, the track assembly having a C-shaped channel with spaced apart bottom edges; a trolley assembly adapted to traverse the track assembly, the trolley assembly having a pair of wheels supported by the bottom edges to ride within the channel and a support pin fixed between a pair of trunnions supported by the pair of wheels; a body harness constructed of straps buckled together and adapted to encircle the torso, shoulder and legs of the user to safely support the user's weight; a tether strap having a first end secured directly to the body harness and a second end secured directly to a harness ring spaced away from the body harness on the back side of the user between shoulder straps to position the adjustable lanyard out of the way of the user to prevent interference with any rehabilatory physical activity and to keep the user in the upright erect position upon falling; a single inelastic, adjustable lanyard having a first end attached directly to the support pin of the trolley assembly and a second opposite end attached directly to the harness ring to keep the body harness at a same fixed elevation for both a rehabilatory physical activity or a fall; and the adjustable lanyard may be shortened or lengthened to connect or disconnect the body harness and keep the user in the upright standing position while undergoing rehabilatory physical activities to rehabilitate from depilatory ambulatory conditions due to age, disease or injury.