The subject of the invention is the device for treatment of scoliosis from 0° to 50° ace. to Cobb with the use of the exercising patient's own strength, in particular children above 6 years old and young people up to 18 years old, both for surgical and non-surgical treatment.

The redresser, derotator and scoliosis corrector, known from the Polish protection description of the utility model no. 60060, has the front frame to which a hand support is fitted with a head traction fastened separately, and the rear frame to which a knee support with a separately fastened hip traction is fitted higher than the hand support. The front and the rear frame are joined via connecting bars at 1/3 of their height, whereas, in the upper part, via guides with slides to which two derotating-correcting-redressing pads are fitted using the main strap; both the chest pad and the lumbar pad are fastened to the slides - each to two slides. Both pads are additionally fitted to connecting bars using the stabilisation strap. The chest pad is connected with the supporting-redressing strap, with the other end fitted to the connecting bar, which is moved with the guide in parallel to the connecting bar and the guide located on the other side of the device. There are two vertically and horizontally movable shoulder stabilisers mounted on the longer sides of the front frame between the guides and the connecting bars; similarly, two hip stabilisers are located in similar arrangement on the rear frame.

For conservative therapy of scoliosis, the devices requires pads as elements set at the tops of the spine curve arches acting like a two-sided lever that need to be set in the distance of ca. 2 cm from spinous processes at the appropriate angle, which does not stabilise location of these elements and maintain them in the right position in case of using straps and, in consequence, extends the period of treatment and diminishes its results. The construction of stabilisers and pads and their fastening to the bolted supporting structure make the device hardly stable. The device is troublesome in operation and requires presence of a therapist, and,

moreover, hinders precise control of the treatment process.

The concept of the device for treatment of scoliosis according to the invention is based on the fact that heads are used as elements set between a spinous process and a transverse process; the working parts of the heads are connected with head bodies in a swinging manner, so that, in case of pressure of the vertebral body on the edge of the working part of the head, regardless of the set angle, spine is shifted in the frontal plane and in the transverse plane. It is advantageous if the head is equipped with a handle and two slides with blocking adjustments and the working part of the head is narrowed towards the oval edge and connected with the body. It is advantageous if the hip stabiliser is tilting. It is advantageous if the head guides and the guides of the head guides and stabilisers are equipped with graduated scales. It is jest advantageous if the supporting structure is equipped with wheels.

According to the invention, the device enables to act selectively and precisely on the two tops of the spine curve arches simultaneous in three planes without the necessity to set the edge angle of the working part of the head. Effectiveness of heads' effect on spine increases considerably in comparison with effects of the pads thank to the swinging manner of operation and because of the shape of the working heads as well as equipping them with handles and slides with blocking adjustments. A tilting hip stabiliser facilitates the right position of the exercising person and lowering the devices. The grades scales of the guides enable not only to set the correct parameters selected for the type of scoliosis, but also to control the treatment process. The wheels enable to move the device easily. The compact and stable structure of the device according to the invention ensures stabilisation of the exercising person, whereas simple operation assures safe treatment both for surgical and non-surgical treatment, permitting to increase the frequency of exercises and, in consequence, shorten the period of treatment.

The subject of the invention in the executed example is explained in

fig. 1 illustrating the diagram of the device for treatment of scoliosis and in fig. 2 presenting the head diagram.

The supporting structure of the device according to the invention has rectangular frames: the upper one and the lower one, fixed in parallel to each other, one above the other, in three columns that form two rectangular side frames of a shared side with the relevant sides of the upper and the lower frame. There is a kneeler \\_ located in the lower frame, opposite to which there are handles 2 located in the side frame. Two head guides 8 and two guides of the head guides, shoulder stabilisers and hip stabilisers 6 are located in the upper frame. The shoulder stabilisers 3 are equipped with slides with blocking adjustments 5j and hip stabilisers W are also furnished with slides with blocking adjustments 9, each in one slide with a blocking adjustment. Each head guide 8_is equipped with two slides with blocking adjustments 5 located at the ends. The working pars .16 of the heads 7 are connected with bodies 14 of the heads 7_in a swinging manner. The working part 16 of the head 7 narrows towards the oval edge. The head 7 is equipped with a handle 13 and two slides with blocking adjustments 15; one slide with a blocking adjustment 15 regulates the head movement 7 along the head guide 8 and the other slide adjusts the vertical body movement 14. The head 7 is ended with a handle 13 that is used to move and rotate the head on its axis. The head 7 is moved in the horizontal plane in two directions perpendicular to each other and in the vertical plane with the possibility of rotation up to 180°; additionally, its working part 16 is moved in two planes of spine. The shoulder stabilisers 3 and the hip stabilisers 10 are moved in the horizontal plane along their guides 6; the left hip stabiliser 10 is also tilting. The head guides 8 and the guides of the head guides and stabilisers 6 are equipped in graduated scales. The supporting structure has wheels / and feet 12. . The exercising person kneels down on the kneeler 11 and grabs the handles 2.

Then, at supported kneeling, the position of the exercising person is stabilised, successively, by shoulder stabilisers 3 and hip stabilisers 10. After stabilisation, the

edges of the working parts 16 of the heads 7 are placed between spinous processes and transverse processes at the tops of the spine curve arches. By moving spine upwards, the exercising person exerts pressure on vertebral bodies by the edge of the working part 16 of the head 7_by ca. 10 seconds, then takes a deep breath and assumes the initial position. The exercise referred to as a 'cat's back' is repeated ca. 50 times at least 3 times a day.