Patent ID: 7857778

Claim:
An apparatus for treatment, in particular physiotherapeutic treatment of a part of the human body, in particular an arm, comprising: a holder with at least one strap for fixing an arm to be treated about the lower arm in the region of the elbow; a traction element, which acts on the wrist of the arm with a traction of a predeterminable tension, pulling the wrist away from the elbow in a first direction; one or more weights acting on the traction element via a tension transmitting means to apply the predeterminable tension; and a motor connected to a counteracting force transmitting means, the motor acting on the traction element via the counteracting force transmitting means in a second direction, substantially opposite that of the first direction, to apply a counteracting force to the predeterminable tension being applied to the traction element to vary or stop the predeterminable tension acting on the wrist at the beginning, during or at the end of the treatment.