Sling table
The sling table is used in physiotherapy as a therapeutic aid to treat the affected, painful or immobile limbs.
The structural design consists of a sturdy steel frame about two meters high, just as long and one meter wide, which looks like an oversized table. Special designs can also be fastened upside down from the ceiling. A wire mesh is usually welded to this frame . In the grid are ropes or cords (more precisely open with attached "loops" loops , wide belts, bands, cuffs, etc.), as well as simple hoists , or individual rollers variable with snap hooks mounted, knotted or otherwise secured. The technical term for this is called "Schlingenbesteck".
The patient is on a lounger underneath and can be pulled up on the affected body parts or completely. The individual applications, however, depend on the diagnosis and the therapeutic objective.
The sling table is therefore an indispensable part of physiotherapeutic treatment for certain orthopedic diagnoses.
Application examples:
- Extension (medicine) and flexion (medicine) of the joints.
- Arthrosis of the hip joint can be treated with the help of the sling table in a way that is much gentler on the joints and therefore more effective.
- Spinal problems, even if they are overweight , can help the patient to achieve maximum relief and relaxation with this aid.
literature
- Werner Wenk: The loop table in practice and teaching , Pflaum Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3790509140
- Detlef Katzki, Michael Müller: Sling table : suspensions, exercises, clinical pictures , Urban & Fischer Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3437452304
- George Barling, John Barling: Sling Suspension Therapy, Trafford, 2002, ISBN 155369581X (Engl.)